Senior Digital DevOps Engineer
What's involved with this role:
Role: Senior Digital DevOps EngineerJob Ref: QAD 2050/3110
Pay Rate: Competitive Market Rate
Hours per week: 37 hours per week
Contract Length: Anticipated 12 months
Location: Hybrid working in London, Manchester or Newcastle
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a multi-functional agile delivery team and be an integral part of shaping and delivering automated solutions. The successful candidate will be expected to lead engineers as well as collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.You will be a technical leader and a hands-on engineer within a capability team, in addition to coaching and developing existing DevOps Engineers.
Key technical skills:
Significant demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - favouring and implementing Continuous Integration & Deployment over manual processesSignificant 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 AWSSignificant 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
You will also have deep technical knowledge of developing and running at least two or more of the following technologies at scale:
Data persistence - MongoDB/AtlasMessaging / 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 quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Security Clearance: SC highly desirable; candidates with active SC clearance will be fast-tracked.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let us know.
If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we provide the best talent and encourage all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.
Please send your CV directly to centralgov@tclrec.com1
Job Ref: QAD 2050/3110
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.