DevOps Engineer

Alcumus; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the technology sector is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to enhance their continuous integration and delivery processes. This role involves working within a dynamic team to implement solutions while ensuring high software quality and security standards. Candidates will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and technologies in a supportive and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable previous experience in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Experience in building and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with automation scripting.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments.
• Participate in agile squad planning and execution.
• Ship high quality, scalable, and secure solutions.

Skills

Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Scripting skills in Python

Experience with Docker

Knowledge of DevOps tools

Team collaboration skills

Tools

GitHub

Kubernetes

Confluence

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• Be a part of the growing DevOps team and work towards implementation of outlined solutions for the various portfolios of our business.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments pertaining to our DevOps Strategy.
• Ship high quality, scalable, secure, and robust solutions.
• Work in squads to ensure that solution design and solution implementation align and evolve together, using an agile mindset.
• Attend squad stand-up meetings, retrospectives, and planning sessions to support successful execution of their missions.
• Participate in collaborative team planning processes (estimating, prioritizing, etc.), and identify significant project milestones and risks.
• Use and be familiar with the latest tools and technologies and be at the forefront of innovation.
• Be talented, highly motivated, and passionate about software quality and continuously strive to improve your skills and the quality of our software products.
• Providing support during the opening hours of the tech support team and 24/7 support via an on-call rota.
• The consideration and application of information security principles within day-to-day tasks.

What you’ll need to be successful

Essential:

• Demonstrable previous experience of working in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Experience designing, building, and implementing CI/CD pipeline(s), ideally within GitHub Actions.
• Experience of implementing “Release on Demand” capabilities within a SaaS model.
• Sound understanding of DevOps tools and technologies.
• Good scripting/automation skills in at least one of the languages such as python, bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience with building docker images, deploying applications in Kubernetes clusters using helmfile and helm charts.
• Experience / knowledge of integrating QA automation and security tools in CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience working with source control tools such as GitHub.
• Excellent documentation skills preferably on confluence.
• Knowledge of agile software development practices.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills ability to approach problems in a structured way and find reliable solutions.
• Experience working with multiple cloud providers like Azure, AWS and GCP.
• Experience in managing container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Keycloak or other tools supporting authentication / authorization.
• Experience working with React, Node, C# and .NET.
• Experience provisioning and configuring infrastructure using IaC solutions.
• An understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP.
• Experience using event streaming platforms like Kafka.

Desirable:

• Experience working with multiple cloud providers like Azure, AWS and GCP.
• Experience in managing container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Keycloak or other tools supporting authentication / authorization.
• Experience working with React, Node, C# and .NET.
• Experience provisioning and configuring infrastructure using IaC solutions.
• An understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP.
• Experience using event streaming platforms like Kafka.

What you’ll get in return

What that means day to day

• Be a part of the growing DevOps team and work towards implementation of outlined solutions for the various portfolios of our business.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments pertaining to our DevOps Strategy.
• Ship high quality, scalable, secure, and robust solutions.
• Work in squads to ensure that solution design and solution implementation align and evolve together, using an agile mindset.
• Attend squad stand-up meetings, retrospectives, and planning sessions to support successful execution of their missions.
• Participate in collaborative team planning processes (estimating, prioritizing, etc.), and identify significant project milestones and risks.
• Use and be familiar with the latest tools and technologies and be at the forefront of innovation.
• Be talented, highly motivated, and passionate about software quality and continuously strive to improve your skills and the quality of our software products.
• Providing support during the opening hours of the tech support team and 24/7 support via an on-call rota.
• The consideration and application of information security principles within day-to-day tasks.

What you’ll need to be successful

Essential:

• Demonstrable previous experience of working in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Experience designing, building, and implementing CI/CD pipeline(s), ideally within GitHub Actions.
• Experience of implementing “Release on Demand” capabilities within a SaaS model.
• Sound understanding of DevOps tools and technologies.
• Good scripting/automation skills in at least one of the languages such as python, bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience with building docker images, deploying applications in Kubernetes clusters using helmfile and helm charts.
• Experience / knowledge of integrating QA automation and security tools in CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience working with source control tools such as GitHub.
• Excellent documentation skills preferably on confluence.
• Knowledge of agile software development practices.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills ability to approach problems in a structured way and find reliable solutions.