DevOps Engineer

Daintta are a rapidly growing, values-driven team of specialists who work with government clients across Cyber Security, National Security, Law Enforcement and Telecommunications. We are seeking a talented and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our team and contribute to our mission of protecting the UK through data-driven insights and solutions. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with our public sector clients and project teams to design, develop, and implement DevOps solutions that meet our clients\’ requirements.

Key Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with clients to understand their DevOps engineering needs and objectives
2. Work in scrum-like environments for iterative and \’fail-fast\’ work and innovation.
3. Work in cross-disciplinary teams, providing CI/CD and deployment expertise.
4. Design, develop, and implement high-quality solutions for cloud and on-premise environments
5. Utilise your expertise to architect robust and scalable systems with network and cyber security best practices
6. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to gather project requirements, analyse feasibility, and provide technical recommendations
7. Stay up to date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in DevOps engineering and share your knowledge with the team
8. Collaborate with project managers to ensure successful project delivery within the defined timelines and budget
9. Communicate technical content at the right level both internally and to customers.
10. Accurately deliver high quality work to agreed timelines, including taking the initiative and knowing how to \’jump straight in\’
11. Support client engagements, including pitches and presentations
12. Help to support & grow Daintta by actively inputting into the company strategy and helping to shape our future
13. Represent our core values: Transparent, Fair and Daring

Skills/Knowledge

The role requires the following key skills / knowledge, non-exhaustively:

1. 2+ years professional experience as DevOps engineer, preferably in a consultancy or industry setting
2. Experience with one or more Cloud service providers – AWS, GCP or Azure
3. An understanding of developing solutions that are cloud-ready, and cloud/on-prem agnostic
4. Good understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles, and experience in practical application (e.g. provisioning/deployment via Ansible, Terraform, Helm)
5. Understanding of building solutions with Network Security considerations
6. Understanding of cloud networking concepts such as Private VPCs, Security Groups, NAT Gateways
7. Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
8. Familiarity with software development methodologies, such as Agile or Scrum
9. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to find innovative solutions to complex technical challenges
10. Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively interact with clients and team members
11. Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly in fast-paced environments
12. A passion for delivering high quality solutions that meet client expectations
13. Familiarity with Software Engineering practices and principles, such as CI/CD pipelines for verifying, building, testing and pushing deployment artefacts
14. Experience in OCI containerisation (e.g. Docker), and associated orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
15. Experience in deployment of services and OCI images to production systems, and the associated CI/CD for robust and successful deployment (e.g. through github actions, gitlab pipelines or azure devops pipelines)
16. Understanding of setting up centralised logging and monitoring of deployed infrastructure
17. Knowledge of infrastructure security principles and best practices

Location

Hybrid, with 2-3 days working from Daintta office (London or Cheltenham) or on client site as required.

What\’s in it for you?

You will be joining the company at Daintta \”Consultant\” grade. In addition to being rewarded fairly for your contribution to the business, you get to work in a dynamic organisation that is agile and responsive. A business that is growing fast and where you get to drive and shape the future. A place where you are respected by everyone and your voice is important. Somewhere where you can be innovative and creative. A place where you have the opportunity to learn about all aspects of business from marketing to sales, to delivery and business operations.

Security Information

Due to the nature of this position, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, you must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see this link . #J-18808-Ljbffr