Senior DevOps Engineer in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Senior DevOps Engineer

Competitive Salary and excellent benefits

Hybrid (2-3 days on site)

Based in Cheltenham

BPSS to Start - You must be able to gain and maintain the highest level of UK Government clearance.

Are you looking for an opportunity to work with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems?

Are you eager to learn and thrive, whilst working alongside the best minds in the defence industry?

About Your Opportunity:

DevOps Linux Engineers are critical to the success of our client's market-leading and agile delivery teams. Collaborating with Architects, Software Developers and Testers, we align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost and organisational agility.

"As a Lead DevOps Engineer I implement and improve end to end CI/CD pipelines to promote stable and efficient environments throughout the SDLC. Using multiple toolsets to automate repetitive processes, monitor and analyse system performances and enable projects to focus on getting the best value out of their tools. I document and share knowledge to help projects grow and learn from previous issues, mentoring junior colleagues to follow best practices."

Your Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders to design, build and maintain mission-critical systems
• Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
• Lead and drive decisions to implement best-fit tools to solve complex project problems effectively.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the SDLC (software development life cycle).
• Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications
• Migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud-ready and implement microservices architecture.

Required Experience:

• Experience in creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo
• Experience in automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python;
• Experience in administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift;
• Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tooling e.g. Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
• Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
• Cloud experience and awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Platforms Experience in designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix based solutions would be advantageous e.g. using virtualisation, containerisation, Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana, CheckMK.

Your Benefits:

• Flexible working schedules - we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
• Flexible Benefits Package - choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
• Employee Incentive Programme - exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
• Career Development - An Opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities

BPSS to Start - You must be able to gain and maintain the highest level of UK Government clearance.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Competitive Salary and excellent benefits

Hybrid (2-3 days on site)

Based in Cheltenham

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.