DevOps Engineer

DEVOPS ENGINEER - 6 MONTHS - OUTSIDE IR35

One of Loriens leading Public Sector Clients are looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join there team on an initial 6 month contract.

This role will be largely remote but candidates must be able to be in Glasgow offices if needed.

As Dev Ops Engineer you will:

• Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable and performant way
• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
• Ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable and secure
• Have deep technical knowledge and experience in DevOps environments, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
• Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Confluence, Jira)
• Be proactive on identifying improvements.
• Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
• Be able to work with clients with low technical expertise

Essential Skills

• * 5 years in a hands-on platform engineer / devops role working at a senior level
• Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build experience
• Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure operate experience
• Demonstrable experience building Kubernetes infrastructure on AWSEKS
• Demonstrable experience operating Kubernetes infrastructure on AWSEKS
• Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes
• Ability to contribute to architecture roadmap for business area through leading and participating in Proof Of Concept (POC)/prototyping initiatives
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing, documenting and presenting secure solutions to stakeholders
• Experience implementing Istio service mesh
• Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
• Worked in a GitOps-driven environment
• Able to provide ongoing and appropriate mentorship for DevOps Engineers

Significant practical experience and detailed technical knowledge of:

• AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets)
• Linux
• Containers and container orchestration
• Helm
• Terraform
• Git
• Experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
• Configuration Management
• Secrets Management
• TLS, mTLS
• Authentication technologies

At least some experience with:

• Coding in Python
• Interacting with APIs
• Supporting Java applications

Desirable Skills

• Experience working on AWS Cloud migration projects
• Experience with any or all of: Terragrunt & ArgoCD
• Experience supporting the build, deployment production support of Java applications
• Solid understanding of common security principles
• Vulnerability scanning & reporting experience
• Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated environments (eg, finance, government)
• Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.