DevOps Engineer, Contract outside of IR35

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Implement and sustain a well-established cross-domain system for a client.

• Uphold a continuous deployment pipeline.

• Collaborate with Feature Development teams to facilitate the efficient promotion of component releases into production.

• Utilize configuration management tools to guarantee that deployments are consistent and accurately configured.

• Ensure the system meets agreed-upon service-level and availability objectives through the use of real-time monitoring tools and system-generated metrics.

• Introduce new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and enhance performance.

• Address monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventive or corrective measures to minimize customer impact.

• Communicate with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and gather new service requirements.

• Employ automation techniques to lessen the burden of manual operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or Ansible.

• Experience working with Docker containers and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker Swarm.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.

• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL.

• Proficient in Linux command line, administration, and shell scripting.

• Comprehensive knowledge of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery best practices.

• Practical knowledge of network security protocols.

• Familiarity with AWS.

• Experience with monitoring tools like InfluxDB, Prometheus, or Grafana.

• Eligibility for the appropriate UK Government security clearance (BPSS / SC / DV).

• Must comply with UK Government residency and right-to-work requirements linked to the necessary clearance level.

• Desirable: experience in a managed service environment.

• Desirable: experience in using, developing, and maintaining cloud hosting services, preferably AWS EC2, RDS, S3, and Lambda.

• Desirable: experience with event-driven integration using MQ messaging such as RabbitMQ or a similar AMQP solution.

• Desirable: knowledge of cross-domain principles and technologies.

• Desirable: industry experience in writing well-tested code in Java, Go, Python, or a similar language.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote.

• 3-month rolling contract outside of IR35.

• £500 to £600 per day.