Venesky-Brown s client, a public sector organisation in Newport, is currently looking to recruit a Dev Ops Engineer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of 550-600/day (Inside IR35). This role will primarily be remote based but may be asked to attend the office up to once a month.Responsibilities Support all aspects of the software development lifecycle, applying DevOps principles and to lead on developing, implementing, enhancing, and managing DevOps practices following agreed processes and best practices. Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g., availability, security, performance, and scalability. Leading on the design, release and implementation of automated, repeatable, efficient delivery pipelines and holds responsibility for the management, delivery, and improvements of the deployments onto Production. Lead delivery, integration, administration, and configuration of DevOps tools, seeking continual improvement and ensuring effective transition onto operational support (where applicable). This includes tools for source control, build, CI & CD support, code reviews, security scans, test automation, monitoring and agile management etc. Implementing and configuring DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing, and notification strategies and be an advocate for security and performance standards in the organisation Identifying, tracking and support managing of DevOps specific risks and issues in adherence to established reporting standards. Contributing to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment, including solution architecture, estimations, product planning, user stories (requirement) creation. Attending Team and Agile Scrum meetings. Sharing knowledge and expertise and providing mentorship and training to other members of the team, enabling them to work in an automated, repeatable fashion. Promoting and encouraging the use of test automation and infrastructure-as-code within delivery teams.Essential Skills Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps or iterative development culture. Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, including pipeline design and administration. Experience with automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines. Demonstrable experience in service support including troubleshooting and incident resolution. Experience in identification and tracking of risks and issues. Experience of knowledge sharing and mentoring junior members of the team. Terraform authoring / upgrading / refactoring Azure DevOps Repos, YAML Pipelines Deployed Apps/APIs via Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines Azure Azure AppService GitDesirable Skills Azure Function App Azure AppInsights / Azure Log Analytics Azure SQL Database deployment Azure App Configuration Azure Managed Identities Python Shift left strategy: security scans, code analysis, monitoring Knowledge of build/deploy of .Net Project, React, Node.js DockerIf you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.











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