Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS

+ Fully remote role

+ 6 month initial contract

+ £550 to £650 per day

+ Requirement to undergo SC Clearance in the role

Key Skills:

+ Gitlab/Jenkins

+ Puppet, Packer

+ AWS

+ Ansible/Terraform

Responsibilities

Developing various infrastructure solutions including Public Cloud AWS as well as datacenter / private cloud to deliver high availability, rapidly developed, fully automated solutions using predominately open source software which deliver value to the customer.
Providing technical leadership, help and guidance to less experienced members of the team through mentoring, coaching, constructive review and active participation in various technical forums.
Advising our customers on the latest technologies and methodologies, designing and implementing innovative approaches to their problems using Automation.
Ensuring software standards are maintained, being able to train and mentor junior staff. Defining processes and procedures to ensure maximum re-use and maintaining standards.
Understanding security policies and implementing solutions that satisfy the security requirements.
Designing and implementing solutions which have high availability and are scalable.
Providing feedback and demonstrating to a wider audience solutions currently being developed and introducing the team to new concepts and products.
Advise on testing solutions that can be automated to deliver an end to end testing solution for products.
Advise on monitoring solutions, which can automate error collection and display the results in real time that will improve the customer's experience.

Essential Skills

Experience of working in an Agile environment.
Experience of using source control systems, CI/CD, unit testing. (Gitlab, including Jenkins)
Experience of Puppet
Experience of Packer
Experience of AWS
Fundamental understanding of the architecture of Hybrid Clouds
Hands-on experience in infrastructure as code, applied with configuration management, automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
Experience of using TDD
Understanding of programming patterns and constructs, an ability to learn is crucial/critical.

Desirable Skills

Jira, Confluence, Kubernetes, ELK, Grafana/Graphite, Fortigate, Artifactory