DevOps Engineer

Job Description

DevOps Engineer

Location: Parico end customer offices with hybrid working (3 days per week onsite, 2 days per week remote)
Reports to: Head of DevOps
Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 basic plus Company Bonus (up to £10k pa) and benefits

Parico is a growing technology business with a history of delivering innovative and secure solutions to Public Sector customers across the United Kingdom. Our team are motivated individuals that help each other to do remarkable things every day. We face challenges together and we win together. At Parico, we deliver world-class solutions that transform the way that our clients use technology.

The Role:

Parico is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to work on exciting and dynamic projects who prospers against the challenge of working closely with a small business to solve complex and challenging problems across the Public Sector landscape. You’ll have the freedoms to be truly innovative to roll up your sleeves, get stuck into the detail of systems, and generally do what it takes to achieve incredible technical solutions to our customer’s complex problems.

You will be part of a team developing greenfield services for our clients, using cloud services and on-premise infrastructure while developing Continuous Integration pipelines with different tools and technologies to enable our Software and Infrastructure engineers to rapidly develop, test and push out products to production.

Responsibilities include:
Design and implementation of infrastructure to ensure successful delivery of industry leading solutions.
Develop tools and services useful in DevOps environments such as performance monitoring, security monitoring, deployment / configuration, continuous integration, server builds and cloud resource creation scripts
Introducing methods to test, observe and alert on applications and services.
Working with the development team and other areas of the business to establish where DevOps practices can save time and money.
Build and maintain the overall security integrity of both cloud and internal environments.
Demonstrable knowledge of web application security and distributed applications/micro-services.
Working in a close-knit Agile team and providing regular updates to the Scrum Master and Product Owner.
Ability to produce clear and concise technical documentation.

Our Ideal Candidate:
Experience and track record of building and managing customer environments.
Experience with Docker and containerisation. Kubernetes experience is advantageous.
Has good networking knowledge (TCP/IP, Ports, DNS, network troubleshooting)
Possesses solid Linux command line skills (administration, package management, bash scripting). RedHat preferred.
Has worked with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitHub actions. Administration and building pipelines.
Monitoring and logging experience (ELK/Grafana)
Experience working with at least one cloud platform – building, deploying and configuring services. On-premise experience such as VMware is preferred but is not essential.
Experience of DevOps environments, Scripting and automation (Infrastructure as Code), with skills in Terraform and Ansible.
You should have the ability to work under tight deadlines and be able to prioritise under pressure as you will be working on multiple projects at the same time.
Excellent problem-solving skills and comfortable taking on new challenges.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Hold a UK Driving Licence and have a willingness to travel to client sites.
Ability to hold a minimum of UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).

What’s in it for you?
A high-performance company culture and leadership team that are there to help you to progress your career quickly and thrive with endless opportunities.
Kitted out with a full suite of tech goodies and any additional tech you may need with our work-from-home subsidy upon joining, so you can kit out your home office.
Get the fuel you need to power through the workday with free snacks, drinks and a weekly catered lunch in the office.
25 days of paid holiday (plus 8 bank holidays).
10 days at full pay for Armed Forces Reservist training.
Private health insurance provided through AXA PPP and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program.
Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle car scheme with Octopus Energy
Discretionary company bonus
Flexible Life Insurance, with a minimum of 2 x salary and rewards, provided by YuLife.
Flexible working hours to support life admin as well as being able to work from home.
Enhanced Private pension contributions, matched up to 5%
We’re family friendly, with Parico company policies built to support you, in all stages of life.
If you're relocating to join the team, we'll provide a contribution to help with your costs.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and meet the requirements, please submit your application today. At Parico, we believe a diverse workforce is a successful workforce. We actively work to empower balanced teams which represent ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, the LGBTQIA+ community, and all genders.