DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform

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Spring Technology is currently looking for experienced DevOps Engineers specialising in Google cloud platforms. These are 6 month initial contracts based in London or Sheffield.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Collaborate with GCP delivery teams, to challenge and refine solution designs, ensuring at all times that DevOps best practice is followed.

* Collaborate with central GCP teams (architecture, security, engineering, networks) to design new implementation patterns and to apply them across the various GCP projects.

* Key or pivotal role in delivery of a large-scale IT project (requirements, design, development, testing, data, infrastructure), preferably delivered following an Agile approach.

* Demonstrable experience in understanding business requirements and translating these requirements into a solid, robust technical design that can withstand scrutiny by various teams involved in governance processes around live deployments (IT Security, Cyber Security etc.)

* Demonstrated an ability to see beyond the defined business requirements and designing solutions that are readily maintainable, easy to extend and that allow for future requirements to be easily implemented minimizing technical debt where possible

* A large cloud implementation/migration project (preferably GCP), all the way through to go-live.

* Strong working knowledge of cloud architecture solutions that maximize the use of PaaS offerings.

* Understand the concept of immutable infrastructure (what it means, what design considerations are key & why it is important), and ideally some experience on at least one project.

* Understand "infrastructure-as-code" and "configuration-as-code" (what are the benefits?), and ability to differentiate toolsets/platforms used to implement each one.

* Experience using Terraform (designing re-usable code & writing custom Terraform modules).

* Experience writing Ansible playbooks, developing custom Ansible roles that can be re-used across delivery teams

* Experience of using Ansible Tower to create job and workflow templates that can be used to orchestrate a variety of operations across a range of infrastructure components.

* Experience managing cloud infrastructure environments (admin, users, IAM & service accounts).

* Experience of working in a test-driven development (TDD) approach.

* Understand the concepts behind effective secrets management ideally having implemented it on at least one project, knowledge of concepts - leasing, secret wrapping etc.

* Track record of delivery.

* Banking and/or Financial Crime Risk experience (optional).

Technical Skills - must-have

* Automation toolset (Terraform, Consul, Ansible, Ansible Tower).

* Continuous Integration/delivery servers - Bamboo/Jenkins 2 (Pipeline as Code).

* DevOps principles (CICD, designing & implementing infrastructure/configuration-as-code).

* Designing and writing robust automated tests using ServerSpec, InSpec.

* Familiarisation with Hashicorp Vault for secrets management

* Knowledge of cloud architecture & services (preferably GCP).

* Security (IAM, roles, service accounts, entitlements).

* Data (databases, management, transformation, metadata).

* RHEL 7.x administration.

* Bash/shell scripting and Python development.

* Git.

If of interest please send your CV now to apply !

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