Lead DevOps Engineer-SC Cleared
Recruiter
SidTech
Listed on
24th May 2019
Location
Glasgow
Salary/Rate
£400 - £600
Type
Contract
Start Date
2019-05-23
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Lead DevOpsEngineer
Summary of work
Lead DevOps Engineer required to provide technical
leadership, mentorship and delivery capability to an
emerging team in an award-winning transformation
programme.
Who the specialist will work with
The existing team is comprised mostly of supplier,
contract and Civil Service resources. The specialist will be
expected to be embedded into current delivery teams
and will be expected to lead a small team.
What the specialist will work on
We are looking for an exceptional Lead DevOps Engineer
with a good balance of technical understanding and strong
leadership skills who have proven experience in the
development, deployment and support of services built on a
track record of stability, availability and quality
Working arrangements
The specialist is expected to be on-site for at least four days a
week with one day optional working from home.
Work as part of a small team of DevOps specialists and
engineers ensuring services are understood
Work as a technical subject matter expert, develop the
strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies
reviewing and steering platform scope to ensure maximum
value from investment
Build and maintain IaC artefacts, looking ahead for future
opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by teams
align with the strategy
Identify operational improvements and work to ensure a
stable service
Essential skills and experience
Technology knowledge - good experience of four or more of:
o Best Practice secure infrastructure o AWS & associated
tooling
o Networking o Linux (CentOS or RHEL)
o Automation Tooling: Ansible, Puppet, Terraform o
Monitoring & Alerting
Making and guiding decisions
o Capable of making and guiding effective decisions,
explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
o Able to make decisions characterised by managed levels
of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and
complexity increase.
o Take ownership of problems and proactively resolves
technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions
continue to meet business requirements
Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical
o Translate technical concepts between infrastructure,
delivery management and service management so they are
understood by al
o Able to speak on behalf of technical and service
management teams and facilitate the relationships with
indirect stakeholders o Able to share knowledge and mentor
(potentially non-technical) colleagues
o Able to share knowledge and mentor (potentially
non-technical) colleagues
Governance
o Understands technical governance and is able to participate
in or deliver the assurance of a service
o Understands government requirements of governance,
auditability and accountability
Technology knowledge - good experience of one or more of
o Best Practice AWS Architectures (i.e. Immutable
Infrastructure, IaC, Ephemeral Infrastructure)
o MySQL compatible DBs: MySQL, RDS, Aurora, MariaDB
o Build Pipeline automation, CI/CD
o Build Tooling: Packer, Vault, Git, SonarQube, Jenkins
o Government Cloud Security standards (NIST, OWASP, CIS,
NCSC etc…) o BASH, Python
o Cloud identity & IAM solutions (i.e. LDAP, AWS Directory
Services) o RESTful microservices
o Splunk o IT Service Management
Expected contract length
12 months initial, with an optional 12 months extension
