Principle DevOps Engineer, Permanent contract

Company Description

Our client delivers innovative technology consulting for business.

Job Description

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Creating and managing the roadmap and implementation of DevOps within our clients organisations;
• Advising clients on appropriate DevOps strategies specific to their unique business needs;
• Propose DevOps technology solutions and take the lead in implementing and evaluating those solutions;
• Supervise and deliver architecture design, infrastructure design, build and deployment activities;
• Delivering high level designs using industry standard methodologies (UML process flow/sequence diagrams etc) to articulate complex tasks to business and technical teams;
• Working effectively with 3rd party and offshore development teams;
• Supporting the ongoing growth of our organisation as required

Experience in the following:

• Strong experience with either Java or Python scripting is a must
• Software Delivery Lifecycle Process optimisations and Business Process Modelling
• Source code systems and branching strategies
• Containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, etc.)
• Collaboration, Issue tracking and wiki documentation (JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Teams)
• Test automation and Service Virtualization
• Experience with cloud providers and their services (at least one of AWS, GCP, Azure);
• Some exposure in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques, approaches and tools, including experience with some of the following tools: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, Jenkins X, TeamCity, Artifactory, etc;
• Infrastructure provisioning (at least one of Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
• Observability and Application monitoring (ELK stack, TICK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, etc.)
• Networking concepts - Bastion hosts, Reverse Proxies, Load Balancing, TLS, etc

Key Soft Skills required, include but not limited to:

• Naturally resilient, tenacious and results driven with excellent communication and influencing skills;
• Self-starter and highly motivated towards success;
• Team Player