DevOps Engineer

Full Time Opportunity

SC Eligible or Active SC Candidates may Apply

Hybrid Work Model

Reading, UK base location with some travel to client location

AWS services - IAMS, WAFS, SQSBYOK, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker, Ingress, Kafka, Elastic Search, Pega experience is a MUST.

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 organization. He must be an expert with experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and relevant tooling (Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, AWS EC2, S3 and EKS are essential) with Squid Proxy, NGINX.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and implement automated build and deployment solution for Java based micro service applications utilizing Atlassian Jira/GitLab/Jenkins/Artifactory/Ansible and Terraform.
• Ensuring that the team and client understand operational requirements, and take a shared responsibility for designing and implementing infrastructure for delivering and running software services.
• Serve as key liaison between management, technical development/QA teams and Operations.
• Discover and capitalize on automation opportunities that provide business value.
• Experienced with large-scale CI/CD implementations and source code implementations.
• Involve in troubleshooting activities to solve technical challenges.
• Monitor progress on projects and provides technical direction as needed.
• Develop effective working relationships with development teams both internal to HMRC and with Third Party suppliers.
• Familiar working within an Agile working environment.
• Develop and maintain lightweight systems documentation.
• Mentor junior team members.

Essential Skills:

• Experience with Enterprise Jenkins to create reusable pipelines across projects.
• DevOps - GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, JMeter, Squid Proxy, NGINX.
• AWS services - IAMS, WAFS, SQSBYOK, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker, Ingress, Kafka, Elastic Search, Pega experience is a MUST.
• Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard network protocols and security hardening.
• Proven experience using AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API Gateway, ALB, Auto scaling etc.
• In-depth knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.).
• Mandatory Experience in creating automation framework using Ansible.
• Strong in one or two scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell Scripting, etc.).
• Knowledge of SCM branch strategies using Git.
• Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools (such as ReadyAPI, Cucumber etc.).
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Preferably EKS).
• Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in AWS cloud environment across multiple environments.
• Experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms and application stacks.
• Experience in defining quality gates (integrating SonarQube Static Code analysis, running Regression suites, etc.) in the delivery pipeline.
• Understanding and experience with a variety of deployment approaches.
• Knowledge of development concepts (REST, JSON, YML etc.).

Desirable Skills:

• Proficient with defect/issue tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Knowledge of Hashicorp Packer for AMI creation and Hashicorp Vault for secrets are desirable.
• Knowledge of Queues (IBM MQ and RabbitMQ) and monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, AppDynamics) are preferable.
• Passion for and ability to work with software development teams releasing production-ready Software daily.
• Willingness to take ownership, be held accountable and achieve a good outcome for all stakeholders through effective collaboration.
• Eagerness to learn enough new tools or tricks required to get the job done.
• Good attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communications with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.