Senior Devops Engineer (Java)

Netcompany; Ledston; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Private Medical Health care via Vital

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Professional certifications supported

Employee discounts

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Netcompany in Leeds, England, United Kingdom seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer (Java) to implement and support improvements, accelerate delivery times, and enhance software quality within a multidisciplinary team across Development, QA, IT Operations, InfoSec and UCD.

The role emphasizes DevOps tooling, containers and cloud platforms (AWS), with a focus on CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps, while requiring travel willingness and the ability to obtain UK security clearance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Experience in Java.
• Experience with databases, architecture and integration.
• Experience with monitoring tools for reliability and performance.
• Liquibase for schema change management.
• Knowledge of GitOps principles.
• Experience in public sector/government beneficial.
• Willingness to travel.
• Right to work in the UK.
• Ability to attain UK security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support improvements to efficiency, software quality, and delivery times.
• Collaborate across Development, QA, IT Ops, InfoSec, and UCD to apply best DevOps practices.
• Translate business requirements into technical implementation for stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder expectations to ensure service reliability.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Java

Monitoring

Liquibase

GitOps

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

Responsible for implementing and supporting improvements, efficiency, enhancing software quality, and accelerating delivery times. Having the shared responsibility between development/operations with a focus on people, process, and tools that take a unified customer/user focus. In a multi-disciplinary team with Development, QA, IT Operations, InfoSec, and UCD, all working together to achieve a common goal of applying best practice in DevOps.

Key Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience of DevOps tooling, containers and containerisation
• Communication: Ability to speak with stakeholders and be able to transfer business requirements into technical implementation
• Facilitate information/business knowledge: Able to act as a business SME and understand what the business needs and how to support this into an efficient DevOps team.
• Stakeholder Management: Able to negotiate and influence stakeholders to ensure the service runs effectively and efforts are placed correctly.

Qualifications

• 5+ Years working as a DevOps Engineer
• Strong knowledge of AWS, CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance
• Experience using Terraform(infrastructure as code), Kubernetes and Helm
• Experience in Java
• Experienced with multiple ecosystem databases, architecture and integration
• Experience with monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Database Management: Experience with schema change management (e.g., Liquibase).
• Knowledge of GitOps principles
• Experience working within the public sector/central government is beneficial
• Must have a willingness to travel
• Must have the right to work in the UK
• Must be able to attain a UK Security Clearance

Benefits include

• Hybrid working model with some flexible working
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution, Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported as part of learning and development.
• A range of retail discounts to enhance your lifestyle, encompassing restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure activities and health and well-being services.
• Access to our Employee Resource Groups, our groups represent diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for colleagues to connect, learn, and support one another.

Company information

Join Netcompany, where we proudly hold the 5th position on the esteemed UK Top 50 Best Places to Work in the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards for 2024.

At Netcompany, we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit and our capacity for doing things differently. Our culture is built on fostering low bureaucracy, emphasizing high agility and promoting flexibility, enabling everyone to contribute their best.

Our journey began in the UK with the acquisition of Hunter Macdonald in 2017. As one of Northern Europe's most accomplished IT companies, we have expanded our headcount globally to 7400+ employees and have offices in UK, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Holland and Vietnam.

Netcompany is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process for anyone wishing to apply for a job with us. We operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme which means that we offer guaranteed interviews to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a role. Applicants are asked to opt in, so please let us know if you wish your application to be considered under this scheme.

Senior DevOps Engineer (Java) Leeds, England, United Kingdom