DevOps Engineer

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow, are currently looking to recruit a Dev Ops Engineer on a hybrid basis, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to £685/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

• Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable and performant way
• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable and secure
• Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Confluence, Jira)
• Be proactive on identifying improvements.
• Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
• Work with clients with low technical expertise

• 5 years in a hands-on platform engineer / Dev Ops role working at a senior level
• Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build experience
• Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure operate experience
• Demonstrable experience building Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS
• Demonstrable experience operating Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS
• Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes
• Ability to contribute to architecture roadmap for business area through leading and participating in Proof Of Concept (POC)/prototyping initiatives
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing, documenting and presenting secure solutions to stakeholders
• Experience implementing Istio service mesh
• Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
• Worked in a Git Ops-driven environment
• AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets)
• Linux
• Containers and container orchestration
• Helm
• Terraform
• Git
• Configuration Management
• Secrets Management
• Experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
• TLS, mTLS
• Authentication technologies
• Demonstrable experience of supporting and integrating Spring Boot applications with provided infrastructure components
• Experience of troubleshooting and proactively identifying issues and threats, highlighting non adherence with industry standards/good practice
• Ability to utilise existing tooling to troubleshoot complex technical issues and identify root cause
  
  Ability to work with production support team to identify issues, highlight appropriate resolutions and implement change to remediate identified issue to live environments
• Some experience coding in Python, interacting with APIs and supporting Java applications

• Experience working on AWS Cloud migration projects
• Experience with any or all of Terragrunt & ArgoCD
• Solid understanding of common security principles
• Vulnerability scanning & reporting experience
• Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated environments (eg, finance, government)

ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland’s largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.