Junior to Lead DevOps Engineers

Sanderson Government & Defence; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Basingstoke is seeking engineers for their DevOps team. The role focuses on CI/CD pipeline development, automation, and security tooling implementation. Candidates should have substantial experience with modern DevOps practices, scripting, and problem-solving skills. This position offers flexible working options along with generous benefits including additional annual leave.

Benefits

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays

Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Flexible benefits options

Employee discounts

Employee assistance programme

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Significant experience in CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Software Development background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Developing CI/CD Pipelines and automating software deployments.
• Contributing to technical implementation and design activities.
• Working within a SCRUM team to define and prioritize work.

Skills

CI/CD Pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps

IaC code tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, Harbor

Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework

Version control with Git

DevSecOps tooling and practices

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Job description

Overview

A primary technical partner of the MOD are looking to add a number of engineers to their DevOps team, the role is driving technical delivery of the CI/CD pipelines and integrated security tooling, ensuring these are delivered and utilised in the most effective way.

Your role will involve:

• Developing CI/CD Pipelines, Ansible Scripts, Terraform and generally automating the build and deployment of software and infrastructure components, using modern tools and DevSecOps best practices.
• Responsible for small aspects of the technical implementation, delivery and assurance of the DevOps / DevSecOps tooling, associated processes and ways of working.
• Contributing to the Technical Implementation and design activities, supporting making Design decisions and assessing options.
• Advising on use of technologies and processes, to end users.
• Works within a SCRUM team to support, define/prioritise work and raise Risks/Dependencies.
• Ensures the implementation satisfies its requirements and ensuring it aligns to the Business Outcomes and security needs.
• Contributes to Planning the work for the team.

Key Skills

Significant experience in the Implementation / Configuration / Usage in several of the following -

• CI/CD Pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps
• IaC code tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, Harbor
• SCA/IAST/DAST tooling, e.g. Black Duck, Coverity, Codesight, JFrog, Snyk
• Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework
• Test Management Tooling ideally Azure Test Plans
• Secure Secrets Management, ideally Azure DevOps and Hashicorp Vault
• Version control with Git

General

• Software Development Background
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• DevSecOps tooling and practices

Please note: It's still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. They are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills / willingness to learn DevOps this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your benefits:

• 26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
• Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Companywide incentive plans
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental, critical illness and more)
• Perks at work - employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme / virtual GP
• Work Your Way is our approach to flexible working - this is available from day 1 of joining

If you're interested in the above, apply or reach out to [e-mail]

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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