Senior DevOps Engineer / Manchester, Warrington / 500 to 600 GBP (Per Day)

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Senior DevOps Engineer / Manchester, Warrington / 6 Months Contract / 500 to 600 GBP (Per Day)

The Role

As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will be provide technical leadership to a small team of DevOps Engineers along with providing oversight to the products and services they develop.

You will own the overall DevOps process along with setting the strategies for products and the wider community

Contribute to the Architectural & Software Engineering principals, that will help ensure the systems are fit for purpose.

You are a skilled practitioner and role model in DevOps principles. You are responsible for ensuring best practices are adhered to across the department and guiding teams on how to effectively deliver software products.

With a focus on stability, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code and services your teams produce and administer.

Please note that the client has determined that the off-payroll working rules will not apply to this assignment

Responsibilities:

Lead multiple DevOps Engineering teams providing technical leadership and guidance. Including coaching and mentoring year team and their professional development

Contribute and set strategic direction for DevOps teams and wider Software Engineering community

Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice with the wider software engineering community

Provide coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer colleagues and peers

Design and lead the strategies for building common libraries and services for products

Own the development of medium-long term strategies for products lines and Software Engineering Community

discussions about DevOps best practice within Software Engineering

Essential Skills

Experience of leading DevOps Engineers in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple senior Stakeholders

An ability to quickly comprehend and convert technical requirements into solutions

Extensive experience of using, operating, patching and securing Linux operating systems like RHEL

Extensive experience of shell scripting languages like BASH or Python

Extensive experience of deploying, supporting and patching cloud based applications

Extensive experience with continuous integration and delivery tools like Jenkins

Extensive experience with virtualisation and container based technologies like Xen or Docker

Extensive experience working with distributed version control systems like Git

Extensive experience of configuration management software like Chef or Puppet

Extensive experience implementing a DevOps culture and automation best practices

Extensive experience of clustering and load balancing applications and services, like NGINX

Extensive experience of deploying scalable and highly available applications

Extensive experience static code analysis and security tools like SonarQube or Checkmarx

Experience deploying scalable and highly available HTTP services, including APIs and orchestrating a micro-services architecture

Desirable

Demonstrable experience working with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack

Can identify and implement Continuous-Integration and Continuous-Delivery best practices

Experience of modifying and maintaining systems and code developed by other Engineers

To be considered for this role you will have :

provisioned and supported Linux based development, test and QA environments with configuration management tools such as puppet (v4.2 or above) and using distributed version control systems such as Git

deployed scalable and highly available HTTP services using applications such as NGINX v1.8 or above

delivered continuous integration for projects with automated builds, testing and deployment methods using technologies such as Jenkins (v2 or above), SonarQube (v5.1 or above)

provisioned and supported databases such as MySQL (v5.0 or above), MongoDB (v3.0 or above) and Cassandra (v2.2 or above)

To be considered for this role you should have

built and deployed micro-services/containers using technologies such as Docker (v1.10 or above), Kubernetes (v1.1 or above) and Rancher (v1 or above)

You will have a proven experience of working within an Agile software development framework using SCRUM or Kanban

The Client

What we do

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants and customers.

DWP is a ministerial department, supported by 13 agencies and public bodies.

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