Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Dev Ops Engineer for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £675/day (Outside IR35). This role will be remote working for the majority, however, must be willing to come to the Glasgow office as and when required, this may include to collect equipment.
 
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
– Will be expected to attend meetings using MS Teams.
– Expected to make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, MS Teams, Confluence and Jira).
 
Essential 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 AWS EKS
– Demonstrable experience operating Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS
– 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
– Significant practical experience and detailed technical knowledge of:

1. AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets)
2. Linux

iii. Containers and container orchestration

1. Helm
2. Terraform
3. Git

vii. Experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
viii. Configuration Management

1. Secrets Management
2. TLS, mTLS
3. Authentication technologies

– At least some experience with:

1. Coding in Python
2. Interacting with APIs

iii. 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 and 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.