Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Job: AWS Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Dublin or London

Type: Contract

Duration: 12 months Min

Rate: 700-750 per day

Start date: ASAP

As a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in transitioning our customer's build pipelines and source code repositories to GitHub Enterprise. You will be responsible for migrating source code repositories from various platforms such as Bitbucket, Subversion, CVS, and GitLab to GitHub Enterprise. Your expertise will be essential in ensuring a smooth migration process, optimising workflows and integrating GitHub with existing tools and systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and implement migration strategies to transition projects and repositories to GitHub
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and develop migration plans
• Perform hands-on repository migrations, including codebase, issues, documentation and CI/CD pipeline configurations
• Ensure seamless integration of GitHub with existing tools and workflows
• Optimise GitHub workflows and CI/CD pipelines for performance, security and scalability
• Provide technical guidance and support during the migration process
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to repository migration and integration
• Document processes, configurations and best practices
• Stay updated with the latest features and developments in GitHub and associated DevOps tools

Required skills & experience:

• Ability and experience of acting as a Lead Engineer
• Proven experience as a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer, Source Code Manager or similar role with hands-on GitHub implementation
• Strong proficiency with GitHub and Git version control
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Bash)
• Understanding of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Ideally you will have some experience or exposure with EKS Harness, Kubernetes, Jenkins/Cloudbees, Terraform, Puppet, Rspec, Black Duck, SonarQube, Artifactory