DevOps Engineer

Badenoch & Clark ,
London, Greater London
Salary: £500 per day

Overview

DevOps Engineer required to work with a Government Department based in Central London. This is an initial 12 month contract, Outside IR35, paying up to £600 per day. Active SC Clearance is highly desirable for this role. As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for: The catalogue of re-usable infrastructure code artefacts utilised by the development and testing team Supporting the project team in enhancing DevOps utilisation and ways of working Facilitating the deployment of multiple application releases with increasing frequency to production Ensuring that ways of working and proposed solutions comply with business policies Liaison with supporting suppliers to make best use of DevOps capabilities Overview: The Department are developing software in a new cloud environment in Azure and are seeking new DevOps engineers. The engineer will form part of an existing team and have experience in Azure DevOps and additional DevOps toolsets. The project will be utilizing Microservices, Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, Terraform and Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML) with the target of frequent deployments. The project also includes an automated test environment therefore any integration automation testing experience would be ideal. You will have come from a development or infrastructure background with recent relevant AZURE CLOUD experience . As important as it is to be technically skilled you also need to be an excellent communicator that can articulate technical engineering issues\solutions to both technical and non-technical staff. The project has recently started therefore you will be steering and guiding the team of developers and testers advocating good DevOps working practices with a DevOps team lead. 1.By May 2020 enable utilization of the business' continuous integration pipeline by the development team. 2.By August 2020 deliver a containerized business application in line with assured designs. 3.By March 2021 deliver a set of containerized business applications. Experience Required Essential: Understanding and ability to write IAC (Infrastructure AS Code) with Terraform and Azure Pipelines (YAML)) Understand GIT Branching methodologies Experience of automation scripting including translations from ARM/JSON templates or Terraform Powershell, Azure CLI and Bash Scripting Skills Ability to build and deploy Docker Containers Ability to leverage Kubernetes to manage container orchestration Strong understanding of Continuous Integration \ Continuous Deployment (CI|CD) technologies Ability to articulate highly technical solutions in a variety of ways either verbally, presenting them or document format (High Level Design or Low level Design) Experience of DevOps tools, IDEs (visual Studio) and source code management (Azure DevOps, GitHub) would be an advantage. Participate on design and code reviews. Desirable: Any Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker or Azure Certifications Experience with Terraform Experience with Ansible Any automation testing skills are a bonus Any application packaging experience. Please apply should you meet the above criteria Badenoch Clark acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Badenoch Clark UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer. By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Badenoch Clark. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information - please copy and paste the following link in to your browser: https://en-gb/candidate-privacy