Reference:
SKPSR/DeOp/60
Sector:
DevOps
Salary:
£750 Per Day
Benefits:
Hybrid Working
Town/City:
London or Manchester
Contract Type:
Contract
Closing Date:
26/11/2024
Role: Digital Dev Ops Senior
Contracting Authority: Government
Contract Length: 12 Months
Location: Hybrid – London or Manchester
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate: £750 per day
Clearance: SC Clearance
An exciting opportunity has become available with our prestigious client who is a prominent government department. The client is seeking an experienced Digital Dev Ops Senior to join their welcoming team.
The Digital Dev Ops Senior Role:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be part of a multi-functional agile delivery team and be an integral part of shaping and delivering automated solutions to deliver quality services consistently that meet the needs of our agents and claimants. The successful candidate will be expected to lead engineers as well as collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
What the Digital Dev Ops Senior Will Need:
• Significant demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - favouring and implementing Continuous Integration & Deployment over manual processes
• Significant demonstrable experience of designing, implementing, securing and supporting Unix/Linux based platforms (ideally RHEL / CentOS) and developing solutions using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go)
• Significant demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based application platforms in AWS
• Significant demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally Gitlab CI & Jenkins).
• Significant demonstrable experience in designing and implementing best practices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation and Cloud-Init
• Experience of working and leading in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple stakeholders
Deep technical knowledge of developing and running at least two or more of the following technologies at scale:
• Data persistence - MongoDB/Atlas
• Messaging / events platforms - Kafka
• Observability tooling - Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Zabbix, CloudWatch
• Container hosting platforms - ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes, Rancher, Nomad
• Secrets Management - Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
• Public Key Infrastructure - Hashicorp Vault, AWS Certificate Manager
• Identity management - Entra ID, Keycloak
• Desktop infrastructure - Apple Mobile Device Management, JAMF, ESET, Okta/Entra
• Security - TLS& PKI, Cloud Security, CIS Benchmarks, NCSC Cloud Security Principals, DAST/SAST
• Cloud Networking - TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints, Transit Gateway, HAProxy, Traefik, NGINX, Service Mesh (Linkerd, Istio, Consul Connect, Lattice)
Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Interviews will take place this week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity.
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