Lead DevOps Engineer

Job description

Lead DevOps Engineer required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 12 month contract, paying £750 a day, inside IR35, hybrid working.

You will need:

·  Significant demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - favouring and implementing Continuous Integration & Deployment over manual processes

·  Significant demonstrable experience of designing, implementing, securing and supporting Unix/Linux based platforms (ideally RHEL / CentOS) and developing solutions using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go)

·  Significant demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based application platforms in AWS

·  Significant demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally Gitlab CI & Jenkins).

·  Significant demonstrable experience in designing and implementing best practices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation and Cloud-Init

·  Experience of working and leading in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple stakeholders

·  Data persistence - MongoDB/Atlas

·  Messaging / events platforms - Kafka

·  Observability tooling - Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Zabbix, CloudWatch

·  Container hosting platforms - ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes, Rancher, Nomad

·  Secrets Management - Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager

·  Public Key Infrastructure - Hashicorp Vault, AWS Certificate Manager

·  Identity management - Entra ID, Keycloak

·  Desktop infrastructure - Apple Mobile Device Management, JAMF, ESET, Okta/Entra

·  Security - TLS& PKI, Cloud Security, CIS Benchmarks, NCSC Cloud Security Principals, DAST/SAST

·  Cloud Networking - TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints, Transit Gateway, HAProxy, Traefik, NGINX, Service Mesh (Linkerd, Istio, Consul Connect, Lattice)

Please note that active SC clearance is required for this role.

Please apply should you fit the above criteria