Job Details

Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Slough - Berkshire, UK.
Salary: £28,000 to 30,000

IT Global Consulting Limited - Seeking an experienced and highly motivated ‘DevOps Engineer’ who is responsible for the development, maintenance and ongoing support for the platform and acting as the internal focal point for a enterprise platform. The person should be self-motivated and ambitious, with an ongoing desire to maintain their knowledge level at the forefront of the DevOps process and technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

    Duties and Responsibilities

    • Working within an agile context with the use of CI/CD
    • Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure.
    • Supporting teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services.
    • Undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers.
    • Spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk.
    • Supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines.
    • Driving adoption of new tools so teams they can improve their integration appraches; developing new or improved support processes for users.
    • Work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to assess applications, software and hardware
    • Develop, coordinate, and administrate AWS infrastructure by integrating cloud native services with third party products
    • Enhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issues
    • Build and manage VPC Environments that cover Sandbox, DEV, Test, Production, Training, Support
    • Automate deployments via infrastructure as code (Pulumi/Terraform)
    • Fulfill containerization (Docker etc) troubleshooting and support task
    • Agile ways of working
    • This role requires you to know how to architect, design, develop, deploy and operate a Kubernetes cluster and be a good leader for your team
      Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, Automation
    • Strong experience of Kubernetes,
    • Autoscaling on AWS, Karpenter etc
    • Crossplane experience a plus
    • Experience of DevOps concepts and experience of deploying CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third-party tools
    • Excellent Shell Scripting and Python skills
    • Experience with monitoring/metrics platforms (Datadog/Prometheus)
    • Build/Deployment - CI/CD, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Maven, Helm
    • Monitoring - Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
    • Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
    • Able to assess security of existing applications and define standards for new projects
    • Experience with Nix desirable
    • The desired profile is an expert and candidate must be able to work without supervision, while being a good team player. 
    • Work with key stakeholders in the business such as Solution Architects/ Business teams to understand the needs of the business and map that into processes and solutions within the platform.
    • Suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements and better user experiences.
    • Capability of working to very tight timescales whilst maintaining quality product development
    • Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a CICD environment.
    • Work with both internal and vendor development/business teams
    • Design and document solutions based on business requirements.
    • Write a well-designed, testable, quality code following clean code principles.
Skills, Knowledge, and qualification
AWS, Cloud, Java
Nice to have technologies and experience:

- Nginx

- IPv4 Networking

- Software engineering (C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node)

- Test automation

- Relational and non-relation data technologies.

The personal traits we are looking for are:

- Passion for technology

- Showing initiative

- Self-learning- Being a team player, ie take ownership of contributing to the overall team capability and knowledge

Any of the below certifications are advantage:
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) for J2SE 6.0.
  • Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)
  • ITILv3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management