Job Description
EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY: Intelligent Resource is looking for experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join one of their key project teams. This is a 100% remote role.
On client's instructions, due to the urgency, nature and length of the assignment, the successful candidate must have current security clearance (SC Clearance) to a high level.
Lead DevOps Engineer
12 Months Contract
Remote Working
Role Overview:
As part of our team working with a Government customer, you will be involved in the challenges of establishing and maintaining secure cloud based environments whilst supporting Agile teams delivering features into new and existing products. Your extensive use of CI/CD pipelines will help drive the reliability and integrity of products as they are released. Experience of AWS is also a significant advantage, particularly in areas such as supporting containerised applications, highly available database and message queuing services. This is an exciting opportunity to be able to work with a fast moving programme of work, in great technology that delivers real impact for the UK Citizen.
Key Responsibilities:
Work closely and collaboratively with teams using Scrum and Kanban as appropriate
Work closely and collaboratively with project architects and architecture community to build solid DevOps capability within the organisation
Work within cross-functional teams of engineers focused primarily on delivering technical solutions for improving the overall quality of product build, deployments, monitoring and alerting, with emphasis on resilience, stability, scalability, and security
Passionately work towards automation and elimination of repetitive tasks, bringing your experience in modern tools to help support development teams deliver more effectively
Continuously review and iterate CI / CD strategy to support complex delivery challenges whilst following and identifying best practices, tooling, and standards
Maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures
Essential Skills
In-depth AWS knowledge such as Cloud Formation, EC2, SQS, API gateway, etc (certification desirable)
Docker & Kubernetes
Jenkins
Excellent troubleshooting and diagnosis ability across technologies
Clear understanding of CI/CD
Agile ways of working
Familiarity of Microservice architecture and the deployment challenges and considerations that presents
Tool/framework-agnostic mind-set, but with a focus on best tool for job bearing in mind risk and security
Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional boundaries
Good written and communication skills
Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
Desirable skills
Chef, Ansible, Terraform
AWS EKS, Lambda
Drone
Jira/Confluence
Intelligent Resource is committed to barrier-free and inclusive recruitment. We are a Disability Confident recruiter, and a RIDI 100 and Business Disability Forum partner organisation.
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