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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