Lead DevOps Engineer

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will help lead the development and implementation of secure cloud environments hosting data and batch/real-time analytical platforms for public and private sector clients, leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies and techniques.

This also involves building automated deployments using configuration management technology, deploying new modules, upgrades and fixes to test and production environments.

You will:

Build, test and deploy cloud-based infrastructure and applications using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code

Contribute to the coding of custom test automation frameworks

Perform script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations

Assist with setup/maintenance of environments for both manual and automated testing

Assist in production support through the investigation and resolution of incidents

Perform ongoing routine application maintenance tasks

Assist in conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications

Participate in the contingency planning, including reliable backup and restore procedures

Document functions and changes to new or modified modules and test activities/results

Mentoring and driving the team to deliver to the start our customer's require

Core Competencies

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or greater. An equivalent of at least 5 plus years' of working experience in a DevOps capacity is also required for this position.

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role:

Commercial Experience in deploying and operating infrastructure (network, servers, services) and applications on AWS and other cloud environments

Developing and operating using open source and commercial software within a cloud-centric environment

Server build and administration, Linux and Windows

GitHub/GitLab for source control and performing code reviews as part of the build and deployment cycle

CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies, e.g. Terraform and Ansible

Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks

Experience of cloud orchestration and containerisation technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker

Knowledge of large-scale databases and distributed technologies, such as RDS

Knowledge of distributed event streaming technologies, such as Kafka

Write/maintain automation script using Bash/Shell or python scripting languages

Experience of mentoring and leading people around you and taking point on key decisions