Senior DevOps Engineer

We have an exciting Job opportunity for  Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: London, UK

Job type: Contract

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As a senior DevOps Engineer you will be expected to take a major role in designing, building and supporting our new platforms. 
• You will be expected to be able to contribute along our stack, ranging from our cloud platforms to our containerised developer offerings.
• We will expect you to take a keen interest in developing our junior engineers, in addition we would actively wish you to be involved in spreading our culture to the wider technology teams. 
• The client engages in critical work for the nation, as such the work you contribute towards our technology transformation will have a genuine impact.
• We expect you to have had substantial experience in a number of DevOps projects and competence with a few key technologies. 

Required Skills:

Minimum Criteria

• Extensive Kubernetes experience, including production support.
• Understanding and practical implementation of both CI and CD.
• Extensive cloud automation experience [AWS, GCP or Azure].
• Extensive experience with Linux based systems.
• Ability to develop in one or more languages.
• Previous use of git for source control.
• Willing to mentor junior employees.
• Willing to experiment and fail fast.
• Have a security-first focus, baked-in not bolted-on.

Desirable Criteria

• Previous experience in Python or Golang.
• Previous experience of Ansible and Terraform.
• Understanding of observability and its implementation.
• Understanding and ability to provide quality, automated testing as you develop.
• Ability to design solutions independently.
• Networking knowledge.
• Understanding of data science concepts.