Senior DevOps Engineer- Kubernetes- Terraform-Higher Education

Morson Edge; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm in Central London is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in Kubernetes and Terraform. The role involves implementing infrastructure as code pipelines to deploy research-supporting applications in a hybrid work setting. Candidates should have strong skills in CI/CD and virtualisation projects, with a focus on meeting user requirements in a higher education context. This position offers a pay rate of £600-£655 per day for a 4-month contract.

Qualifications

• Strong Kubernetes knowledge and experience.
• Experience with infrastructure as code development (Terraform).
• Ability to liaise with end users to gather requirements.

Responsibilities

• Implement infrastructure as code pipelines for deploying applications.
• Support research-related applications on private cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Virtualisation

Ansible

GitHub

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes – Terraform – Higher Education

Senior DevOps Engineer with strong Kubernetes knowledge/experience and experience with infrastructure as code development (Terraform) and ideally experience of virtualisation projects is needed to support our Higher Education client to implement infrastructure as code pipelines for deploying research‑supporting applications within social science applications.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for implementing infrastructure as code pipelines for deploying research‑supporting applications and associated services on private cloud (on‑prem) infrastructure using Virtual Machines and Kubernetes.

Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes – Virtualisation – Essential Experience

• Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code development (Terraform).
• Ability to liaise with end‑users to gather requirements, ensuring that application deployments meet their needs and that available resources are used efficiently.
• Experience of working on Virtualisation projects, awareness of VMware
• Experience of using Ansible and GitHub.

Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes – Virtualisation – Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of public/private cloud
• Experience within a Higher Education environment, particularly working with research/academic stakeholders to translate their requirements into technical solutions.
• Knowledge of python and Rstudio or Rancher or Kubernetes cluster on Harvester.

Hybrid workign with 1-2 days per week on site in central London

Pay rate £600-£655.00 per day inside IR35- 4 month contract

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