Role Title: Senior Devops Engineer
Location: Manchester, UK
Employment Type: Inside IR35 Contract
Essential skills and experience
- Container platforms
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes engineering; GKE preferred.
- OpenShift experience is required.
- Cloud & IaC
- Google Cloud Platform experience preferred; strong Terraform and reusable infrastructure automation.
- Delivery engineering
- Harness CI/CD and Jenkins; pipeline design, automation, release controls and deployment patterns.
- Developer platform
- Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts, including self-service and golden paths.
- Observability & SRE
- Dynatrace; metrics, telemetry, logs, traces, alerting, SLI/SLO practices and runbook automation.
- Security & controls
- HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, IAM/least privilege, platform controls and secure configuration.
- Networking
- Istio Service Mesh, ingress/egress, service connectivity, traffic management and network security concepts.
- Engineering practices
- GitHub / Git, automation-first mindset, scripting, troubleshooting and production support.
Desirable
- Experience operating platforms within a large, regulated enterprise environment.
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
- Good working knowledge of Bash, Python or PowerShell automation.
- Understanding of reliability engineering, incident management, capacity, resilience and cost telemetry.
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Manchester
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Not specified
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior