Our Glasgow based client has a new opportunity for a Lead DevOps Engineer for an initial 6 month contract.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, mentorship and delivery capability to an established team tasked with building a new platform to meet legislative and long-term business needs.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Best Practice secure infrastructure
• AWS & associated tooling
• Networking
• Linux (CentOS or RHEL)
• Automation Tooling: e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
• Monitoring & Alerting

Technology knowledge

• Best Practice AWS Architectures (i.e. Immutable Infrastructure, IaC, Ephemeral Infrastructure)
• MySQL compatible DBs: MySQL, RDS, Aurora, MariaDB
• Build Pipeline automation, CI/CD
• Build Tooling: Packer, Vault, Git, SonarQube, Jenkins
• Government Cloud Security standards (NIST, OWASP, CIS, NCSC etc )
• BASH, Python
• RESTful microservices
• IT Service Management

Other Skills required

• Making and guiding decisions
• Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical
• Translate technical concepts between infrastructure, delivery management and service management so they are understood by all
• Able to speak on behalf of technical and service management teams and facilitate the relationships with indirect stakeholders
• Demonstrable ability in to sharing knowledge and mentoring (potentially non-technical) colleagues

• Understands technical governance and can participate in or deliver the assurance of a service
• Understands government requirements of governance, auditability and accountability

If you are an exceptional Lead DevOps Engineer with a good balance of technical understanding and strong leadership skills who have proven experience in the development, deployment and support of services built on a track record of stability, availability and quality we want to hear from you.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.