DevOps Engineer - Outside IR35

Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a DevOps Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £650-£684/day (Outside of IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and the office (exact details negotiable).

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

Essential Skills:

-5 years in a hands-on platform engineer/devops role working at a senior level

-Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build and operate experience + Istio experience

-Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes at scale using AWS EKS

-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

Desirable Skills:

-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

-Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.