SC Cleared Lead DevOps Engineer
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Senior/Lead DevOps
London
6 months
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You'll undertake cross-functional engineering projects, working in small teams with other engineers in different knowledge spheres, building supportable, sustainable and reliable services.
You'll have hands-on experience with new technologies, such as containers (Docker, RKT) and the tool orchestration that surround these, (CoreOS / Etcd / Flannel / Kubernetes / Fleet etc.). You'll understand the pros and cons of these technologies and have experience on various implementations surrounding them, or similar tools in that technical space.
Key Responsibilities:
* Appetite for new technologies.
* System provisioning & automation, monitoring, metrics, scalability, security and hardening.
* Overall responsibility for the projects Linux infrastructure in relation to common standards.
* Responsible for the health and upkeep of the critical services.
* Active on remediating any knowledge gaps between Developers and Operations Engineers.
* Automation of Linux, providing frictionless access to services to the rest of the Engineering organisation.
* Working alongside other engineers in the industry, providing the code, services and knowledge to deliver a smooth automation process from the start to the end of the project lifecycle.
Things we seek:
* Good communication skills, both in written and verbal form.
* Knowledge in new technologies (Docker / Fleet / Etcd / Flannel / Kubernetes)
* Reasonable fluency in at least one of: ruby, go.
* Knowledge of HIDS, NIDS and security hardening.
* Extremely sound knowledge of GNU/Linux.
* Knowledge of configuration management tools (Puppet / Ansible), not essential but helps.
* Understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools.
* Experience of IP networking.
* Experience of building infrastructure in the cloud, (AWS) and designing for the cloud.
* Understanding of cloud concepts and how to automate the build over specific API's within the cloud.
Things we like:
* Linux!
* Docker / RKT
* SkyDNS / Bind
* io / Artifactory
* Experience of configuring and managing ELK
* Ceph / Glusterfs
* CoreOS: Fleet / Etcd / Flannel / Rkt
* SysDig / Graphite / Prometheus
* Git / Github / Gitlab
* HAProxy
* Ruby, Go
* SQL / NO-SQL DB's
* Nginx
Suitable candidates should submit their CV in the first instance