DevOps Engineer

DevOps / Platform Engineer

My client offer a wide range of IT based consultancy solutions across the world and an exciting opportunity has arisen for passionate, dedicated and tech-savvy DevOps / Platform Engineers to join their team within an Agile environment. Whether you are from a development background or an Infrastructure as Code background all types of experience are welcomed.

You will get the chance to work with equally driven engineers in a collaborative environment ensuring personal growth, the opportunity to work with market leading technologies and to work on various projects offering a blend of hands-on and leadership tasks.

This role will require highly sensitive governance control thus you must be eligible for Security Clearance.

Key skills for the job

• Experience debugging complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment

• Good communication skills both in written and verbal format with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely

• Extremely sound knowledge of GNU/Linux

• Experience of building infrastructure in AWS using Terraform

• AWS certification (SysOps/Developer/Architect) – preferred but not essential

• Knowledge and experience of setting up and using configuration management tooling – Puppet preferred

• Reasonable fluency in at least one of: ruby, go, python

• Strong Understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools

• Ability to converse with both internal and external stakeholders, holding the appropriate level of conversation at all times

• Desired traits:

• Linux (RHEL/CentOS)

• Core Networking & Loadbalancing

• AWS

• Puppet

• Python / Ruby / Go

• Jenkins / Bamboo

• Git / GitHub / GitLab

• Graphite / Grafana / ELK / Prometheus

• SQL / NO-SQL DB’s

• Docker (swarm / kubernetes)

• Hashicorp (packer / terraform / vault / consul)