Technology | 19-4-2023

DevOps Engineer

  • London
  • £90,000 per annum

DevOps Engineer required on a permanent basis to support one of our key clients operating in the Security space.

You will be responsible for deployment of their clients’ products and services but also using automation and documentation to ensure their continued availability and security. You will be working closely with the development and infrastructure teams across the client’s industry leading high performance on prem and cloud-based services. You will be using your orchestration, deployment, and maintenance tooling skills quite heavily in this role to produce the best service for your clients.

The successful candidate hired will be expected to develop and maintain scrips and tooling whilst managing the lifecycle of the client’s in-house development team, this will include managing deployments, making sure monitoring, and logging are in place, making sure security best practices are always being followed, automating patching and updating cycles as and where needed.

You will be working with the infrastructure team delivering the tooling for managed shared systems and with the development team to ensure the developers can contribute to the pipeline tooling and making sure everyone is using best practices throughout.

What skills are we looking for?

  • Strong system administration skills (Linux)
  • Proven experience in scripting/development (Python is preferred preferred but open to Golang, Ruby and Bash)
  • Experience using orchestration, automation, and configuration management tools such as (chef/puppet, rundeck/ansible, Terraform)
  • Heavy experience building and running continuous integration pipelines for on-prem and cloud-based architecture.
  • Expert level troubleshooting and systems administration skills (Linux, FreeBSD)

Experience with the following technologies is highly desirable but not required:

  • RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • TCP/IP, subnetting/VLANs, firewalling and basic routing
  • SQL/NoSQL

Location: Remote first with travel into the clients office twice a month

If you are currently exploring the market and looking for a new change where your skillset can make a difference then please apply now for immediate consideration and to find out more?

(This role doesn't provide sponsorship)

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