DevOps Engineer - Glasgow - Public Sector - Outside IR35
Day Rate - up to 610
Duration - 6 months with a view to extend
Harvey Nash's Client are hiring a contract DevOps Engineer, you will join a team focused on building a cloud based platform. You will be expected to be embedded into the Digital team as well as working with the other members of the business.
The Client have highlighted they are specifically looking for a candidate to have experience is with strong infrastructure experience, specifically within a multi account AWS environment and a Kubernetes/EKS based platform that is fully managed through Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Candidates must have hands on experience both building and operating secure infrastructure. They should be able to clearly describe previous work, including their level of ownership, responsibilities, and the scope of their involvement on those projects.
Responsibilities
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 Skills & Experience Required
5+ years in a hands-on platform engineer / devops role working at a senior level
Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build and operate experience
Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes at scale, ideally using AWS EKS
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 service mesh technologies (Istio)
Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
Worked in a GitOps-driven environment
Able to provide ongoing and appropriate mentorship for DevOps Engineers
Be eligible for SC level Security Clearance Significant practical experience and able to evidence detailed technical knowledge of:
Managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
Configuration Management
Secrets Management
TLS, mTLS
Authentication technologies. Some experience with:
Coding in Python
Interacting with APIs
Production support of Java applications. Desirable Skills & Experience
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
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