DevOps Engineer - Glasgow - Public Sector - Outside IR35
Day Rate - up to £635
Duration - 6 months with a view to extend
Harvey Nash's Client are hiring a contract DevOps Engineer, you will join a team focused on building a cloud based platform. You will be expected to be embedded into the Digital team as well as working with the other members of the business.
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
Skills & Experience Required
- 5+ years in a hands-on platform engineer / devops role working at a senior level
- Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build and operate experience
- Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes at scale, ideally 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 service mesh technologies (Istio)
- Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
- Worked in a GitOps-driven environment
- Able to provide ongoing and appropriate mentorship for DevOps Engineers
- Be eligible for SC level Security Clearance
Significant practical experience and able to evidence detailed technical knowledge of:
- AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets), Linux, Containers and container orchestration, Helm, Terraform, Git.
- Managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
- Configuration Management
- Secrets Management
- TLS, mTLS
- Authentication technologies.
Some experience with:
- Coding in Python
- Interacting with APIs
- Production support of Java applications.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- 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 (eg, finance, government)
- Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation
- Existing SC clearance
Please note that a BPSS clearance is required to start this role.