DevOps Engineer

TwinStream Limited; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 147,000; Part time

Job summary

TwinStream Limited is seeking experienced DevOps Engineers for a fully remote 3-month rolling contract outside IR35 to support a cross-domain system. The system uses an AMQP event-driven architecture with Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines, and automated configuration management to ensure scalable, observable, and highly available services for clients.

You will collaborate with development teams to promote releases, tune monitoring and incident responses, and apply automation to reduce manual

Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible).
• Experience with docker containers & container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift/Docker Swarm).
• Experience using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong SQL knowledge and relational databases.
• Proficient with Linux CLI, scripting and automation.
• Understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, DR best practices.
• Knowledge of network security protocols and AWS.
• Experience with monitoring tools (InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production efficiently.
• Maintain system availability according to SLAs using real-time monitoring and metrics.
• Instrument new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance.
• Respond to monitoring alerts and incidents to minimise customer impact.
• Liaise with customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements.
• Apply automation to reduce manual operations burden.

Skills

Monitoring

Linux

Networking

AWS

CI/CD

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker Swarm

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About Us

In 2019, the founders were working as engineers solving complex cross-domain problems within government organisations.

TwinStreamwas formed to bring together their collectiveexpertiseand experience into a single business, focused on delivering technical excellence and high-quality service to clients.

Since then, the company has grown to over 100 team members across the UK, with colleagues working both on-site with clients, hybridand remotely from home.

Details:

• 3-month (rolling) contract outside of IR35
• £500 to £600 per day
• Fully remote

About the role:

We are looking for skilled engineers to join a new team that will deploy and maintain our established cross-domain system for a customer. The system uses an AMQP event-driven microservices architecture and extensively utilizes docker container services. As a team member, you will maintain a continuous deployment pipeline, work with feature delivery teams to promote component releases into production, and apply configuration management tools to ensure all deployments are consistent and correctly configured.

The system is designed to be highly observable and available. The team will use monitoring tools to verify that all components are meeting SLA/SLO requirements. If any problems are identified, the team will take preventive actions to minimize customer impact and restore service as quickly as possible.

This role is perfect for an experienced engineer who is comfortable working in a managed service environment and wants to gain more experience with best-of-breed DevOps tools and techniques.

Key Responsibilities of the DevOps Engineer:

• Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production as efficiently as possible.
• Maintain the system to agreed service level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system generated metrics.
• Instrumentation of new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance.
• Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventative/remedial action to minimise customer impact.
• Liaising with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements as they arise.
• Apply automation techniques to reduce manual operations burden.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible)
• Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
• Experience using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or GitHub actions)
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Linux command line, administration and shell scripting
• Solid understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery best practices
• Working knowledge of network security protocols
• Working knowledge of AWS
• Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of working in a managed service environment
• Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
• Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution)
• Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies
• Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar)

Diversity & Inclusion

We’recommitted to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. We’re here to support you

Further Information:

Due to the nature of the work and the sectors we support, any offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of the relevant security screening and clearance process.

This role requires eligibility for [BPSS / SC / DV] clearance. As part of the vetting process, candidates must meet the UK Government's residency and right-to-work requirements associated with the required level of clearance.