Platform / DevOps Engineer

This temporary DevOps role within the not-for-profit sector requires expertise in maintaining and enhancing cloud-based infrastructure. Based in London, the position focuses on ensuring smooth deployment pipelines and system performance.

Client Details

The hiring organisation is a medium-sized entity.

Description

• Develop, document and deliver against an infrastructure strategy covering key objectives for infrastructure (reliability and resilience, security, efficiency)
• Monitor and improve backup and redundancy of all services being accountable for uptime.
• Work with developers to establish performance metrics for in-house applications and introduce benchmarks to measure and report on these.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment processes.
• Co-ordinate regular security assessments of infrastructure and systems, resolving infrastructure gaps and notifying development team of systems gaps.
• Actively seek to introduce efficiencies to improve Infrastructure costs and developer experience.
• Support the in-house development team and the existing continuous deployment approach
• Liaise with wider Group IT teams where integration of infrastructure services required.
• Implement and manage regular scheduled tests of services as per our policies (disaster recovery and business continuity), both internally and externally delivered.

Profile

• 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud services including VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, EFS, S3, Workspaces, Security Groups, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, IAM etc.
• 5+ years of experience with containerization, Docker or similar
• Strong knowledge of automation with scripting languages such as Python or Bash
• Good knowledge of modern CI/CD processes and experience creating and managing pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and Github Actions.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code software tools such as Terraform
• Experience with configuration management, Ansible preferred
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively
• Experience with Aurora/RDS MySQL including replication
• Experience with Monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Sumo Logic, etc.
• Security best practices (server hardening, 2FA, secure data storage)
• Networking concepts and tools, including routing, gateways and domain name resolution

Job Offer

• Daily rate between £550 and £650 outside IR35.
• Based in London, with 1 Day on site per week.
• Temporary opportunity offering exposure to innovative projects.

If you are a skilled DevOps professional looking for a rewarding temporary role in London, we encourage you to apply today.