DevOps Engineer

Itglobalconsulting; Slough; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

It Global Consulting Limited is looking for a motivated and experienced DevOps Engineer in Slough, UK. The ideal candidate will engage in developing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, particularly via AWS, and lead the efficient deployment of applications using CI/CD methodologies. This role demands a proactive approach, embracing both independent and collaborative work to optimize technological processes across the enterprise. With a salary range of £28,000 to £30,000, this position is perfect for a tech enthusiast eager to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and cloud security best practices.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Support teams with CI/CD pipeline deployment.
• Architect and manage AWS infrastructure.

Skills

AWS

Cloud

Java

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Docker

CI/CD

Monitoring

Automation

Education

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)

ITILv3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Tools

Nginx

Relational data technologies

Job description

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
• 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,
• 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)
• 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

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 overallteam 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