Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer - inside IR35
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£500 Per day
Inside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer role focuses on maintaining legacy systems hosted on AWS, specifically utilizing EC2 and ECS. The position requires strong documentation skills and the ability to operate and improve existing services autonomously. Occasional travel to Sheffield is expected, and the role is classified as inside IR35. The contract duration is initially set for three months with an ASAP start date.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain legacy systems hosted on AWS, specifically EC2 and ECS.
- Document, operate, and improve existing running services.
- Build, configure, and maintain AMI images with Packer and Ansible.
- Manage container images with Docker.
- Work as part of a mixed skillset team in an agile or DevOps manner.
- Create and refine tickets, tracking work effectively.
Key Skills:
- Operations on a live production service.
- Strong AWS knowledge.
- Experience with Linux.
- Proficiency in building and maintaining AMI images.
- Experience with Packer, Ansible, and Docker.
- Strong documentation skills.
- Ability to work in an agile or DevOps environment.
Salary (Rate): £500 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Start Date : ASAP
Duration: 3 months initially
Rate: £500 per day inside IR35
Location: Remote with occasional travel to Sheffield
Security Clearance: ideally SC but will consider SC eligible
Role Description: The Team are primarily responsible for maintaining some of the Legacy systems, you'll be dealing with things hosted on AWS running on EC2 and ECS, dealing with AMIs as well as containers. You won't be adding features often but will be expected to document, maintain, operate, and improve the existing running services with a high level of autonomy.
High level overview of the skills we need:
- Operations on a live production service
- AWS
- Linux
- Building, configuring, and maintaining AMI images with Packer and Ansible and container images with Docker
- Strong documentation
- Working as part of a mixed skillset team, in an agile or devops manner.
- Creating and refining tickets, tracking work