DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Own and contribute to the delivery of specific components and tasks within projects.
• Engage and foster relationships with the customer, suppliers, professional networks, subject matter experts.
• Actively contribute to team knowledge sharing, performing mentoring and coaching.
• Report to both a project manager and a team lead, providing estimates for work and delivery dates.
• Own high-level design, architectures, visions for platforms which can deliver against customer requirements

• Be hands on in the design, development, and testing of the solution. This could include the specification of the system, choice of technologies, creation of data models, implementation, configuration, development, and testing.
• Be part of a team contributing to the end-to-end technical delivery, understanding how the solution is progressing
• Work with a range of datasets and platforms including on-prem, cloud or hybrid models
• Ensuring security requirements are met with the solutions that are created
  
  

• Be self-driven, able to get to grips with new technology when needed and demonstrate independent research and learning.
• Demonstrate excellent problem-solving abilities and able to work through issues in a logical manner, documenting solutions as required.
• Have in-depth technical knowledge of the Linux Operating System.
• Understand and have experience of Infrastructure-as-code tools/patterns and Configuration Management (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or similar).

• Understand network architecture: routing, switching, firewalls & VLANs.
• Have good knowledge of building and deploying bare-metal and virtual systems using automated processes (e.g. Anaconda Kickstart, RedHat Satellite/Foreman).
• Have a detailed understanding of system monitoring, metrics, logging, and audit technologies.
• Have a range of skills in scripting and the Python programming language.
• Have experience of working and leading tasks using a DevOps way of working.

• Have detailed knowledge of using and configuring big data technologies.
• Have experience of continuous improvement and process optimisation.
  
  

• Have knowledge of big data architectures and experience designing new big data solutions.

• Have knowledge of cloud and hybrid data processing architectures.
• Have experience of owning the delivery of projects against Time, Cost and Quality metrics.
• Have experience of estimating, planning, and costing projects and tasks.
• Have experience of managing customer requirements and expectations.
• Have experience contributing and leading technical workshops with customers to elaborate requirements, designs, and architectures.
  
  

• Location: Ipswich, Cheltenham, or London
• Weekly Hours: 37.5
• Salary: Career Framework Band D
• Position Type: Full Time

• Contract: Permanent