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DevOps Engineer - AWS - Contract or Permanent

Employer
Version 1
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Negotiable dependent on experience
Closing date
22 May 2019

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Clearance Level
SC
Sector
Central Government, Information Technology
Job Type
Contract

Job Details

DevOps Engineer - AWS

  • London, UK
  • Full-time
  • Contract - 12 months or permanent 

 

Company Description

We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver. We are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people.

Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced DevOps Engineer.  

 

Job Description

This role will suit a DevOps professional with knowledge of Integration patterns looking to further their skills within AWS and who enjoys working in a client facing role. You will join a team delivering a transformative solution for a key Version 1 customer; working as a member of the application development team, developing integration capabilities with external services.  
 
You will have an exciting opportunity to work on a secure project, being based on the client site, playing an active role in delivering AWS cloud solutions to our customer.

 

Your main responsibilities will be:

  • Working with AWS application platform developers to ensure high quality continuous build automation and deployment input to class leading application platform solutions.  

  • Assist in ensuring that application platforms and data solutions can be deployed and operated in a highly repeatable and predictable manner.  

  • Help defining relevant solution deployment architectures

  • Deploying and managing multiple environments to support rapid, agile development approaches including demonstration environments.  

  • Collaborate and liaise with other customer stakeholders/ end users in the software development lifecycle – PMs, BAs, testing etc

  • Provide effective knowledge transfer and upskilling to relevant customer personnel to ensure an appropriate level of future self-sufficiency

 

Essential criteria:

  • Existing security clearance is essential 

  • In-depth knowledge of the AWS platform including both IaaS and PaaS technologies

  • Working knowledge of one or more high-level programming languages, such as Java, or Python

  • Working experience with AWS using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

  • Experience in AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments for a software development project

  • Experience in AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild and CodePipeline to utilise the array of options for enabling a continuous integration (CI/CD) environment on AWS

  • Implement several common continuous deployment (CD) use cases using AWS technologies such as blue/green deployment and A/B testing

  • Experience in an array of application deployment technologies available on AWS, such as AWS CodeDeploy, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

  • Experience in automated testing in different stages of a CI/CD pipeline

  • Direct experience of enterprise solution shaping and AWS application platform deployment architecture development including excellent documentation skills

  • Experience of setting up, deploying and managing multiple environments to support agile development approaches

  • It is highly desirable that you have good knowledge and understanding of the following platforms and their deployment: Knowledge of deployment orchestration and configuration management tools (Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Kubernetes).  

  • Any experience you have with best practice design principles and approaches for a range of application styles and technologies to help guide and steer decisions would be very desirable

  • Any experience of working in highly dynamic teams using agile methodologies often under demanding timescales

  • Experience of collaborating and knowledge transfer to mixed customer and supplier teams whilst delivering to agreed timelines would be highly beneficial

 

We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at: 
https://www.version1.com/careers/culture/

Company

Version 1 proves that IT can make a real difference to our customers’ businesses. We are trusted by global brands to deliver IT services and solutions which drive customer success. Our growing 3000+ strong team works closely with our technology partners to provide independent advice that helps our customers navigate the rapidly changing world of IT. 

Version 1 are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people.

Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.

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Grosvenor House
Prospect Hill
Redditch
West Midlands
B97 4DL
United Kingdom

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