Junior Dev Ops Engineer

Position: Junior Dev Ops Engineer Location: Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0QX Hours: Permanent position, full-time Salary: competitive between £25,000 and £35,000 yearly gross (to be defined depending on candidate’s experience) Benefits: Company Pension Our client, siHealth Ltd, is a fast-growing SME company focused on smart solutions in Health & Wellness. The main mission is to use satellite data and smart diagnostics tools to provide innovative services on mobile devices supporting healthy lifestyles and disease prevention & treatment. POSITION We are looking for a full-time Junior Dev Ops (Development Operations) Engineer to join our IT team on a permanent basis, providing operational support mainly to our backend development team, but also the Front-end and R&D teams as and when required. Candidates should enjoy debugging, troubleshooting and solving technical problems, and have an interest in developing their knowledge and experience of the various dev. ops. technologies they will be working with. Support will be provided by more senior colleagues but you will be expected to be able to deploy and provision cloud resources on your own. All candidates will be evaluated fairly, on their merits and suitability for the role. Main Responsibilities: Actively supporting the Back-end team with the configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of core backend infrastructure, under the supervision of and liaising closely with the Back-end Software Engineer and the IT Manager; Supporting the Front-end and R&D teams as and when necessary; Keeping up to date with and learning emerging technologies of relevance or interest. Skills & Experience: Required A sound working knowledge of: Python - Python scripting, runtime environments and command line tools (pip and virtualenv); Git - we are looking for someone who is comfortable with all the most commonly used Git operations (init, add, status, commit, log, branch, checkout, remote, push, pull, fetch, merge, stash); Linux - Linux shells and shell scripting (Bash preferred), and key command line tools and services; bonus points for some understanding of the Linux kernel, services and OS architecture. At least one cloud service (Azure, AWS, GCP); At least one CI technology (Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, Travis, Circle). Candidates should be eligible to live and work in the UK. Desirable: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other STEM subjects; Flask or Django web service frameworks; Docker containerisation; Ansible, Chef, Puppet; Apache 2, NGINX; Big data models and file formats, such as NetCDF4, HDF5; In-memory databases, such as Redis; Python testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Tox, Pytest, Coverage, Hypothesis; Sphinx or other Python documentation tools. For this position, no recruitment agency support is envisaged. If you’re the ideal candidate, please send your CV today by clicking the APPLY button Keywords: Junior Dev Ops Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer, Development Operations Engineer, IT Engineer, Linux, Python, Sphinx, Computer Science, Software Engineer, Software Development