DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Posted 4 days ago by 1760626163

£470 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Portsmouth, South East, England

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 best-in-class 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. They will also 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.
  • Ensure DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.

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
  • Infrastructure-as-code
  • Bash
  • Agile scrum experience

Salary (Rate): £470 per day

City: Portsmouth

Country: England

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.