DevOps Engineer-12

IT Global Consulting Ltd.; Slough; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Global Consulting Limited in Slough, Berkshire, UK, is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer responsible for development, maintenance and ongoing support for the enterprise platform. You will act as the internal focal point for platform operations and drive improvements across CI/CD, AWS, containers and Kubernetes.

The role requires strong scripting (Python, Bash), plus proven expertise with Docker, Terraform/Pulumi, and cloud security best practices.

Qualifications

• Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Experience deploying CI/CD pipelines with cloud-native and third-party tools.
• Excellent Shell scripting and Python skills.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
• Experience with AWS, cloud infrastructure, and Java applications.

Responsibilities

• Work within an agile context with the use of CI/CD.
• Design and implement scalable infrastructure and platform services.
• Support teams in mapping stories to platforms and deployments.
• Develop hardened base containers and automate deployments.
• Define QA and deployment pipelines and monitor performance.
• Manage AWS infrastructure and cloud-native integrations.
• Build and manage VPCs across Sandbox, DEV, Test, Prod, Training.
• Architect, develop, deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters with leadership.
• Apply security best practices and define standards for new projects.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Monitoring

Automation

Security best practices

Tools

Docker

Pulumi

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git

Maven

Helm

Crossplane

Karpenter

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-12

Location: Slough - Berkshire, UK.

Salary: £38,000 to 42,000

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