Senior DevOps Consultant - On-Site with Security Clearance

Xpertex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Xpertex, part of Exponential-e Group, is seeking an experienced DevOps professional to deliver on-site 5 days a week as part of a Managed Service team.

You will provide technical consultancy, design, deployment and support for customer systems, with focus on Linux, AWS, scripting and agile practices, and hold active DV clearance before starting. The role involves working across Jira, OpenText Service Manager and ServiceNow to manage incidents and releases.

Qualifications

• This role requires an active high-level DV security clearance prior to starting the role.
• Experience in DevOps engagements or related field.
• Knowledge of IT practices and products to provide credible opinions and guidance.
• Experience of Linux/RHEL v6x, 7x and 8x.
• Programming: JavaScript, SQL, Java, Python and Unix; scripting knowledge.
• AGILE methodologies and JIRA usage.
• OpenText Service Manager and/or ServiceNow report creation knowledge.
• AWS infrastructure support and migration experience.

Responsibilities

• Functional, Technical, support and optimisation of the technical systems within the Managed Service.
• Technical Consultancy on multiple customer engagements at customer sites and remote support.
• Development, Test & Release and Support of customer products.
• Management of all planned outages and deployments of new services, software or capabilities.
• Engage with business development stakeholders to support growth in the relevant line-of-service.
• Provide subject-matter-expertise in 2nd and 3rd Line support in response to queries.
• Producing project artefacts, technical designs and support documentation.
• Attendance at Daily Scrum or checkpoint meetings and managing incidents, escalations or upgrades.
• Providing progress updates to stakeholders with risk and issue identification.
• Researching market approaches.
• To hold active security clearance.

Skills

DV security clearance

DevOps experience

Linux administration

Scripting

AGILE

JIRA

AWS knowledge

OpenText Service Manager knowledge

ServiceNow knowledge

Tools

JIRA

OpenText Service Manager

ServiceNow

AWS

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Xpertex, part of Exponential-e Group, is seeking an experienced DevOps professional to deliver on-site 5 days a week as part of a Managed Service team.

You will provide technical consultancy, design, deployment and support for customer systems, with focus on Linux, AWS, scripting and agile practices, and hold active DV clearance before starting. The role involves working across Jira, OpenText Service Manager and ServiceNow to manage incidents and releases.