DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Posted 4 days ago by Trust In SODA

£470 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Summary: We are looking for a DevOps/Platform Engineer to join a well-established Platform Engineering team that enables application teams to practice DevOps through top-tier platforms, tooling, and standards. The ideal candidate will collaborate with product-focused teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implement solutions, provision environments, and assist with operational issues. Additionally, they will contribute to the community to ensure that DevOps practices evolve with technological advancements.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Gather requirements and evaluate tools across product-focused teams.
  • Implement and update solutions while provisioning environments.
  • Assist with operational issues and contribute to community practices.
  • Develop common services and manuals to support delivery teams.
  • Utilize Infrastructure-as-code and Bash for automation.
  • Apply delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum.

Key Skills:

  • Kubernetes (3 years min)
  • Helm
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Linux
  • VCS (ideally Github)
  • Building and maintaining containers
  • Good communication skills in written and verbal formats
  • Strong soft skills: communication, teamwork, problem-solving, adaptability
  • Experience with developing common services and manuals
  • Infrastructure-as-code
  • Bash
  • Agile scrum experience

Salary (Rate): £470 daily

City: Portsmouth

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

DevOps Engineer – OUTSIDE IR35 – HIRING ASAP

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 12 Months

Location: 1-2 days per fortnight in Portsmouth & rest of the month working from home

Rate: £400 - £470 per day OUTSIDE IR35

Summary: We are looking for a DevOps/Platform Engineer to join a well-established Platform Engineering team that act as an enabler to allow application teams to practice DevOps via best of class platform, tooling, and standards. The ideal candidate will work across product-focused teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implement/update solutions, provision environments, and assist with operational issues. They will also contribute to the community ensuring that DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.

Skills:

  • Kubernetes (3 years min)
  • Helm
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Linux
  • VCS (ideally Github)
  • Building and maintaining containers
  • Good communication skills both in written and verbal format with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
  • Strong soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and adaptability
  • Developing common services, manuals etc. to support delivery teams in taking ownership of their services through the entire development life cycle.
  • Infrastructure-as-code
  • Bash
  • Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.

Desirable Skills:

  • RedHat OpenShift
  • Hashicorp (such as Terraform, Packer, Vault)
  • Ansible
  • Observability (such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
  • Containerised services (such as Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Keycloak, Elk)
  • Experience of doing all the above at OS or S level
  • YAML based pipelines.
  • Immutable infrastructure
  • Experience with MOD delivery processes.