AWS Devops Engineer, Croydon/Southend-on-Sea – 70K – 75K/Annum

Croydon, Surrey
Agilebydefault

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 organisation

The successful candidate will:

• Promote best practice and adherence to the C&IT Collaborative DevOps Framework
• Contribute to the full automation of services and infrastructure deployment within that Framework
• Maintain the integrity of version-controlled artifacts and configuration
• Develop effective working relationships with development teams both internal to HMRC and with 3rd Party suppliers
• Adhere to best practice while also refining and challenging where appropriate
• Display excellent troubleshooting and diagnosis of complex multi-server architectures
• Support the deployment and integration of cross government IT systems
• Have experience of installing and managing open source products for server orchestration, monitoring and server hardening
• Have the ability to research and learn new programming tools and techniques
• Be comfortable working in a fully configuration managed environment
• Be familiar working within an Agile working environment
• Develop and maintain lightweight systems documentation
• Provide mentorship and knowledge transfer to internal team members

Requirements

• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration, predominantly in a RHEL environment
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation or an equivalent
• Experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and relevant tooling.
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required)
• Experience coding in at least one programming language (Python, Golang, Nodejs or equivalent)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Familiarity with containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS etc.
• Working experience on CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Gitlab. Must have familiarity and skill with the more common version controls tools. Ideally experience with Github/Gitlab but demonstration of version controls principles (ie branching strategies) is more important.
• Good troubleshooting skills.
• Have worked on at least one monitoring stack. (Nagios or Prometheus preferred)
• Hands on Experience with Distributed tracing using tools like Istio, Dynatrace
• Understanding of Security practices used for Cloud native DevOps
• Experience with virtualisation and cloud deployments
• Development Methodology – Familiarity with processes and standards, such as ITIL and DevOps philosophy.
• Experience of working in agile software delivery teams.
• Experience of using JIRA/Atlassian tools.
• Strong communication skills
• Self-Motivated