DevOps Engineer

Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer involves joining a leading Public Sector Client's team on a 6-month contract, primarily working remotely with occasional requirements to be in the Glasgow office. The position demands a highly skilled individual capable of implementing technical requirements, mentoring junior colleagues, and ensuring secure and scalable processes. The candidate will also be expected to actively participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate effectively with delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable and performant way
• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
• Ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable and secure
• Have deep technical knowledge and experience in DevOps environments, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
• Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Confluence, Jira)
• Be proactive on identifying improvements
• Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
• Be able to work with clients with low technical expertise

Key Skills:

• 5 years in a hands-on platform engineer / devops role working at a senior level
• Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build experience
• Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure operate experience
• Demonstrable experience building Kubernetes infrastructure on AWSEKS
• Demonstrable experience operating Kubernetes infrastructure on AWSEKS
• Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes
• Ability to contribute to architecture roadmap for business area through leading and participating in Proof Of Concept (POC)/prototyping initiatives
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing, documenting and presenting secure solutions to stakeholders
• Experience implementing Istio service mesh
• Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
• Worked in a GitOps-driven environment
• Able to provide ongoing and appropriate mentorship for DevOps Engineers
• AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets)
• Linux
• Containers and container orchestration
• Helm
• Terraform
• Git
• Experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
• Configuration Management
• Secrets Management
• TLS, mTLS
• Authentication technologies
• Coding in Python
• Interacting with APIs
• Supporting Java applications
• Experience working on AWS Cloud migration projects
• Experience with any or all of: Terragrunt & ArgoCD
• Experience supporting the build, deployment production support of Java applications
• Solid understanding of common security principles
• Vulnerability scanning & reporting experience
• Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated environments (eg, finance, government)
• Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Glasgow

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT