DevOps Specialist

DevOps Specialist

Posted 4 days ago by Experis UK

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Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
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Active Directory Amazon Web Services (AWS) Application Programming Interface (API) Authentications Automation AWS DevOps Engineer Azure Kubernetes Service Build Automation Change Management Chef (Configuration Management Tool) Cloud Computing Cloud Technologies Cloud Technology Continuous Integration Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery DevOps Docker (Software) Elastic (ELK) Stack Elasticsearch Git (Version Control System) Google Cloud Build Java (Programming Language) Jenkins JIRA Kibana Kubernetes Management Microsoft Windows Perl (Programming Language) Python (Programming Language) RESTEasy (JBoss) Scripting SonarQube Stakeholder Management Teamcity Web Services

Summary: The AWS DevOps Engineer role involves upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes and enhancing platform stability and observability. The position requires a strong background in production application support within AWS, focusing on automation and cloud technologies to facilitate DevOps tooling growth. The candidate will also be responsible for CI/CD pipeline support, incident management, and on-call support. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assist in upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes and RHEL 8.
  • Support continuous integration, development, build, and deployment using automation and cloud technologies.
  • Manage deployments and releases of applications and infrastructure in production.
  • Provide CI/CD pipeline support and on-call support on a rotational basis.
  • Migrate existing applications to Cloud and build new applications on Cloud.
  • Build automation jobs for CI/CD development, build, and deployment of applications on Cloud.
  • Support Cloud platforms and complex multi-tiered infrastructure environments.
  • Identify improvements using initiative and work with multiple teams to resolve issues.
  • Build and support test environments and resolve issues.

Key Skills:

  • Strong scripting and integration skills (e.g., Shell, Python, Chef, Perl).
  • Experience with DevOps tooling (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, JIRA, Stash, GIT, TeamCity, Nolio).
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies (Open Shift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
  • Strong Jenkins experience managing continuous integration.
  • Good knowledge of micro-service architecture APIs and infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with Active Directory authentication and integration.
  • Understanding of code quality and security gates (Sonarqube).
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Knutsford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Role Title: AWS DevOps Engineer

Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2025

Location: Knutsford, Hybrid 2/3 days onsite

Rate: up to £404.80 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Job Description

This resource is required to assist in upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes thereby moving away from Obsolete technology (Cloudera), uplifting to RHEL 8, contributing towards improving stability and observability of the platform and providing advanced analytics tooling and services for modelling analytics

Role Purpose / Summary

Working across continuous integration, development, build and deployment using automation & cloud technologies to support the growth of DevOps tooling. Candidate must be from support background - L2/L3. experience in production application support in AWS. Experience in incident and change management Would require to deployments and release of application and infra in production by following run books Must be good with CI/CD pipeline support, DevOps & Java Should be available for on-call support on rotational basis Need to be proactive. Excellent communication & stakeholder management Migration of existing applications to Cloud and the Build of new applications on Cloud Build automation jobs for CI/CD development, build and deployment of applications on Cloud. Build and support Cloud platforms(Internal/external) and complex multi-tiered, infrastructure environments. Working with cutting edge CI/CD technologies, using your initiative to identify improvements and work with multiple teams to see these through to resolution. Working with a broad Infrastructure technology stack including LinUI, Windows, RDBMS, Networks, JBOSS, Micro-Service Architecture. Test environment build, support & issue resolution Seamless DevOps delivery of infrastructure change from development through to production

Essential Skills

  • Strong scripting and integration skills (e.g. Shell, Python, Chef, Perl etc)
  • Build engineering & automation of deployments
  • DevOps tooling: Bit bucket, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, JIRA, Stash, GIT, TeamCity, Nolio
  • Cloud technologies: Open Shift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
  • Deploying and configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot etc.
  • Strong Jenkins experience managing continuous integration

Desirable Skills

  • Knowledge with micro-service architecture APIs
  • Good Infrastructure, app server(JBoss) and database knowledge
  • Active Director(AD) Authentication and Integration
  • Red Hat Enterprise LinUI (RHEL)
  • App Dynamics, ELK Elastic Search, Kibana, Splunk
  • Understanding of code quality & security gates (sonarqube etc.)
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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