OpenShift Engineer

AMS CWS ,
Swindon, Wiltshire

Overview

Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) is the world's leading provider of Talent Acquisition and Management Services. We deliver award-winning solutions to over 65 outsourcing clients and consulting services to hundreds more. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) service acts as an extension of our clients' recruitment team and provides professional interim and temporary resources. Our client is a well-known building society with headquarters in Swindon; As one of the largest savings and mortgage providers in the UK, 15 million members are at the heart of everything they do. On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a OpenShift Engineer for a 6 month contract based in Swindon. Purpose of the Role: Working as an OpenShift Engineer on the Open Banking Programme. As a OpenShift Engineer you will be responsible for: Implement automated, containerized on-prem application platform solution, with a focus on application concerns including distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines Build, test and administer several highly available RedHat OpenShift Container Platform clusters Serve as a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translate relevant details of the OpenShift platform and its constituent components to those less familiar Work with the client to develop solutions, feature enhancements, and define technical infrastructure environment specific to the client's organisation Troubleshoot the platform and issues related to integration with other internal systems Monitor hardware, VM and container metrics for the purposes of maintaining cluster health and identifying thresholds for scaling Define and document standards and guidelines Develop and automate repeatable tasks Consult with architects and designers to determine requirements and recommend solutions Assist with configuration and maintenance of interfaces for related tool integrations Performance tuning of infrastructure components. Identify, clarify, and resolve project activity issues and risks, escalating as needed What we require from the candidate: In depth knowledge and experience of installing, configuring and operating OpenShift on-premise setup. Extensive knowledge of Linux Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architectures Good knowledge of ansible Experience of working with Java languages Provide support for tracing and help with Triage for application running on OpenShift Experience with Tomcat, Nginx, Apigee is desirable. Good knowledge of Git, Redhat Enterprise Linux and Certificate management Working knowledge of VMware IR35 Status: This role has been assessed as inside of IR35. If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course. In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of Off Payroll working. Any rate quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such, the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different. Alexander Mann Solutions, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89852430