Senior DevOps Engineer - DV CLEARED - Government - £650pd - City of London

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A globally renowned Consultancy are urgently seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer with a Valid DV Clearance to join the DevOps team of a Government Organisation based in Central London.

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 technologies, such as containers (Docker, RKT) and the tool orchestration that surround these, (RHEL / Etcd / OpenShift / Kubernetes 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 with a strong focus on security.

* 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 current technologies (Docker / OpenShift / Kubernetes / AWS)

* Reasonable fluency in at least one of: ruby, go, Java.

* Knowledge of HIDS, NIDS and security hardening.

* Extremely sound knowledge of GNU/Linux.

* Knowledge of configuration management tools (Puppet / Ansible), not essential but helps.

* Strong 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.

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