DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer Location: Slough-Berkshire, UK Salary: £38000 – £40000 IT Global Consulting Limited is seeking an experienced and highly motivated DevOps Engineer responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting the platform, acting as the internal focal point for an enterprise platform. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, ambitious, and eager to stay at the forefront of DevOps technologies. Duties and Responsibilities Work within an agile environment utilizing CI/CD practices. Design logical infrastructure and understand its physical translation. Support teams in mapping stories to platforms, building and deploying secure services. Develop and support platform build activities, such as creating hardened base containers. Identify and advise on best practices and delivery risks. Support service topology discovery, QA, and deployment pipelines. Drive adoption of new tools and improve support processes. Assess applications and hardware using AWS. Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud native and third-party services. Optimize existing services for performance and reliability. Build and manage VPC environments for various stages. Automate deployments with Infrastructure as Code tools like Pulumi or Terraform. Support containerization tasks using Docker and related technologies. Implement and promote agile ways of working. Architect, develop, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters; lead team efforts. Proficiency in Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, and Automation. Experience with autoscaling on AWS, Karpenter, and Crossplane is a plus. Deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native and third-party tools. Strong scripting skills in Shell and Python. Experience with monitoring platforms like Datadog and Prometheus. Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments and assessing application security. Experience with Nix is desirable. Work independently and collaboratively, engaging with stakeholders to align solutions with business needs. Innovate to improve processes, efficiency, and user experience. Maintain quality under tight deadlines and develop automated test suites. Design and document solutions based on business requirements. Write clean, testable, and high-quality code. Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications Experience with AWS, Azure, Java, Cloud Security. Nice-to-Have Technologies and Experience Nginx, IPv4 Networking, Software engineering (C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node), Test automation, Relational and non-relational data technologies. Personal Traits Passion for technology, initiative, self-learning, teamwork, ownership. Certifications (Preferred) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) ITILv3 Foundation #J-18808-Ljbffr