Platform Engineer - DevOps Specialist
Posted 2 weeks ago by Square One Resources
£440 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Knutsford, Cheshire
Summary: The Platform Engineer - DevOps Specialist role focuses on upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes and enhancing platform stability and observability within the financial services sector. The position involves migrating applications to the cloud, building CI/CD automation jobs, and supporting complex infrastructure environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in production application support, particularly in AWS, and will be responsible for seamless DevOps delivery from development to production. This is a 6-month contract position based in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes and RHEL 8.
- 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.
- Build and support Cloud platforms and complex multi-tiered infrastructure environments.
- Work with a broad Infrastructure technology stack including LinUI, Windows, RDBMS, Networks, JBOSS, Micro-Service Architecture.
- Test environment build, support, and issue resolution.
- Ensure seamless DevOps delivery of infrastructure change from development through to production.
Key Skills:
- Strong scripting and integration skills (e.g. Shell, Python, Chef, Perl).
- Build engineering and automation of deployments.
- Experience with DevOps tooling: Bit bucket, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, JIRA, Stash, GIT, TeamCity, Nolio.
- Familiarity with Cloud technologies: Open Shift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
- Experience deploying and configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot.
- Strong Jenkins experience managing continuous integration.
- Knowledge of micro-service architecture APIs.
- Good Infrastructure, app server (JBoss), and database knowledge.
- Experience with Active Directory (AD) Authentication and Integration.
- Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise LinUI (RHEL).
- Experience with App Dynamics, ELK Elastic Search, Kibana, Splunk.
- Understanding of code quality and security gates (Sonarqube).
Salary (Rate): £440/day
City: Knutsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Platform Engineer - DevOps Specialist - Financial services
Location: Knutsford
Salary/Rate: Up to £440per day Inside IR35 (Depending on expereince)
Start Date: June
Job Type: 6 month Contract
Company Introduction
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
In this role you will, 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. Working across continuous integration, development, build and deployment using automation & cloud technologies to support the growth of DevOps tooling.
- 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
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- 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
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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