DevOps Engineer

IT Global Consulting Ltd.; Slough; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Global Consulting Limited in Slough, Berkshire, UK, is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own the platform's development, maintenance and ongoing support, acting as the internal focal point for the enterprise platform. The role requires strong Kubernetes, AWS and CI/CD expertise to lead teams and deliver secure, scalable solutions.

You will work in an Agile environment, automate deployments, and collaborate with solution architects to align business needs with technical delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting, designing and deploying Kubernetes clusters and leading teams.
• Proven ability to deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third‑party tools.
• Strong Shell scripting and Python skills; monitoring with Datadog/Prometheus.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Working within an agile context with the use of CI/CD.
• Articulate logical designs and map them to physical infrastructure.
• Develop, coordinate and administrate AWS infrastructure.
• Automate deployments via infrastructure as code (Pulumi/Terraform).
• Build and manage VPC environments for Sandbox, DEV, Test, Prod.
• Enhance tech stack configurations to improve site performance and reliability.
• Support teams in mapping stories to platforms and deploying secure services.
• Lead Kubernetes architecture discussions and governance.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Docker

CI/CD

Monitoring

Automation

AWS

Cloud

Java

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Git

Maven

Helm

Nginx

IPv4 Networking

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