SC Cleared Senior Digital DevOps Contract

Role:                    SC Cleared Senior Digital DevOps

Location:            Leeds – Hybrid

Length:                12 Months

Rate:                    £750 per day (Inside IR35)

The Role:

We have a 12-month project for a Senior DevOps Engineer who enjoys a challenge. Working on a high-profile public sector project the successful candidate will be using their technical skills to support a programme to design, implement and evolve new and existing services and infrastructure.

Working as part of a multi-functional agile team, the Senior DevOps Engineer will play an integral part of shaping and delivering automated solutions, as well as coaching, developing and collaborating with the existing team of DevOps engineers.

Technical Skills:

• Experience of working in a DevOps environment – favouring and implementing Continuous Integration & Deployment over manual processes
• Experience of designing, implementing, securing and supporting Unix/Linux based platforms (ideally RHEL / CentOS) and developing solutions using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go)
• Demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based application platforms in AWS
• Knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally Gitlab CI & Jenkins).
• 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

The successful candidate will have deep technical knowledge of developing and running at least two or more of the following technologies at scale:

• 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, Windows administration.
• 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)

There will be on-call and out of hours work required, to take part on a rota basis.