Principal DevOps Engineer

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in various sectors including consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Are you interested in elevating your career to new heights? We are currently looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our collaborative team, driving business transformations through strategic insights and agile engineering at an internet scale. Contribute to innovation and our mission for a more positive human future in a tech-driven world. Work in the Digital team to tackle complex business challenges with transformative digital solutions. Thrive in a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence and curiosity.

Responsibilities include:

• Specializing in AWS and Azure to automate processes for efficient service delivery.
• Focusing on Dev in DevOps, implementing the right tools for optimal service delivery.
• Supporting client enablement and coaching.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines for AWS and Azure, enhancing monitoring for production services.

Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience in AWS.
• Building and implementing CI/CD Pipelines, experience working with repos, build automation tools, build orchestration and environment automation (e.g. Jenkins, GIT, SVN, CVS, Cloud-Formation, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Code Pipeline, Azure Stack).
• Implementing microservices and containers (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Implementing tools for logging, monitoring and alerting (e.g. TICK Stack, ELK Stack, Splunk, CloudWatch).
• Creating and automating virtual machines in the cloud deployed on compute instances.
• Implementing other cloud infrastructure and networking required to host a digital service, including storage, firewall and network configuration.
• High availability, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions in the cloud.
• Deploying serverless functions (e.g. AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, Azure Cloud Functions).
• Working knowledge of OS including CLI experience, deploying and configuring application or web servers in virtual machines (e.g. Linux, Tomcat, JBoss, Windows Server, IIS).
• Solving environmental and configuration issues across the stack.
• Application of operational process, such as patching strategies and dependency management of environments and virtual machines.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives.
• Annual performance-based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn).

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.