Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

• AWS, Windows / Linux servers, Kubernetes, Microservices
• Salary circa £70,000 - £75,000 plus benefits
• 2 Days per week in the Southampton office plus on call shift once every three weeks.
• Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance.

Lead DevOps Engineer required to join a leading international Software Business committed to delivering high-performance IT solutions. This is a large operation and will be working within the integrated part of the software engineering team with specific focus on facilitating and building automated pipelines for continuous delivery of the team's deliverables.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will work closely with the DevOps team members in the US and India and form part of a follow-the-sun support escalation model. You will help maintain and contribute to the ongoing reliability, performance and support of the cloud services and infrastructure. This includes monitoring the operating environments, responding to incidents, problems and helping other teams as necessary.

This role have been created by team expansion and new client wins.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on the design, development and release and deployment of cloud based infrastructure, automation and applications
• Working with and supporting the development team with application configuration for deployment, monitoring and other automation
• Provide operational management and support of Windows and Linux servers and containers, including server hardening, patching, network security and log management
• Work with the DevOps Manager and Information Security team members to ensure that infrastructure meets compliance requirements and engineering best practices
• Mentor other more junior members of the team
• Provide on / out of hours support on a rota basis

Skills Required:

• 5+ years of experience working with AWS
• 5+ years of experience working with Linux and Window Servers
• 3+ years working with Kubernetes, Helm and the related DevOps toolchain in a production environment
• 3+ years' experience using Terraform or similar tools
• Experience with Bash scripting
• Ability to conduct detailed code reviews against Helm and IaC

If you have the relevant skills for this role and are ready for the challenge, then please send your CV to

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.