Lead DevOps Engineer, Bracknell, Contract

Lead DevOps Engineer - Support / Maintenance - Basingstoke - Contract

A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered

In this role, the individual will take the lead in developing a leading edge Platform Service for current and future customers. This platform is being designed using modern technologies and approaches to provide a container orchestration and relevant tooling to allow fast development and deployment. This includes taking responsibility for growing the technology stack, as well as a set of consistent and repeatable DevOps processes and tooling ensuring availability, automation in an agile CI/CD delivery both on premise and in the cloud.

Capability, Knowledge & Expertise

• A demonstrable understanding of the full Software Delivery Lifecycle
• Has experience working closely with IT Operations, IT Development and IT Service teams to promote DevOps culture.
• In depth understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, software configuration management, version control and release management.

Technical Skills:

Required

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux including CentOS and CoreOS
• Version control solutions, specifically Gitlab and GitHub
• DevOps methods (integration & automation)
• Continuous integration, continuous delivery/deployment tooling such as Jenkins/Drone
• Collaboration tooling such as Atlassian toolset
• Good knowledge and hands on experience of Database technologies such as Postgres and MariaDB
• Working within Scrum, Kanban or Lean methodologies
• Good knowledge and hands on experience of Windows and Linux based operating systems

Beneficial

• Experience of ITIL and IT Management systems, such as ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence
• Automated testing tools

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.