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.

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