DevOps Engineer
Reading/Leeds, UK (Hybrid)
SC Eligible or Active Candidates may apply
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Description:
The DevOps engineer will be required to contribute to version-controlled configuration assets within a DevOps team’s existing fully automated continuous deployment solution, to diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues and work collaboratively as part of the wider organization. They must be an expert with experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and relevant tooling (Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, AWS EC2, S3 and EKS are essential)
Key responsibilities include:
Design and implement automated build and deployment solution for Java based micro service applications utilizing Atlassian Jira/Gillam/Jenkins/Artifactory/Ansible and Terraform
Ensuring that the team and client understand operational requirements, and take a shared responsibility for designing and implementing infrastructure for delivering and running software services
Serve as key liaison between management, technical development/QA teams and Operations
Discover and capitalize on automation opportunities that provide business value
Experienced with large-scale CI/CD implementations and source code implementations
Involve in troubleshooting activities to solve technical challenges
Monitor progress on projects and provides technical direction as needed
Develop effective working relationships with development teams both internal to HMRC and with Third Party suppliers
Familiar working within an Agile working environment
Develop and maintain lightweight systems documentation
Mentor junior team members
Essential Skills:
Experience with Enterprise Jenkins to create reusable pipelines across projects
Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard network protocols and security hardening.
Proven experience using AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as Ec2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API Gateway, ALB, API Gateway, Autoscaling etc
In-depth knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.) Mandatory experience in creating automation framework using Ansible
Strong in one or two Scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell Scripting, etc.)
Knowledge of SCM branch strategies using Git
Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools (such as ReadyApi, Cucumber etc.)
Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Preferably EKS)
Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in AWS cloud environment across multiple environments
Experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms and application stacks
Experience in defining quality gates (integrating SonarQube Static Code analysis, running Regression suites, etc.) In the delivery pipeline
Understanding and experience with a variety of deployment approaches
Knowledge of development concepts (REST, JSON, YML etc.)
Desirable Skills
Proficient with defect/issue tracking tools such as JIRA
Knowledge of Hashicorp Packer for AMI creation and Hashicorp Vault for secrets are desirable
Knowledge of Queues (IBM MQ and RabbitMQ) and monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, AppDynamics) are preferable
Passion for and ability to work with software development teams releasing production-ready Software daily
Willingness to take ownership, be held accountable and achieve a good outcome for all stakeholders through effective collaboration
Eagerness to learn enough new tools or tricks required to get the job done
Good attention to detail
Strong written and verbal communications with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels