DevOps Apps/Infrastructure Engineer (On Prem and cloud)

Leading edge client requires long term DevOps Apps & Infrastructure contractor to own business-critical engineering services in controlled, air-gapped production environments.

It is vital to have on premise recent experience as well as cloud.

The role covers CI/CD, Linux administration, application support, automation, authentication, monitoring, databases and platform upgrades.

Responsibilities include administering Jenkins, resolving build and plugin issues, managing Rocky/RHEL and Ubuntu environments, configuring Apache, HAProxy, reverse proxies and SSL/TLS, and implementing SAML, Kerberos/GSSAPI, LDAP, service accounts and RBAC.

The contractor will administer Gerrit, permissions, branch policies and submit rules, integrate source control with CI/CD, and maintain monitoring through Grafana, Prometheus, Telegraf, InfluxDB and Jolokia. Database work includes PostgreSQL tuning, backups, WAL management, Python/SQL migration tooling, MySQL replication and SQLite.

  • Develop Puppet modules and resolve configuration drift.
  • Deploy and maintain Docker containers, networking, storage and logging.
  • Test upgrades, rollback plans and security patches.

Skills and Experience

Required experience includes DevOps, Linux infrastructure, platform engineering, application administration, security awareness and independent problem solving. Key tools include Jenkins, Git/Gerrit, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Prometheus, Artifactory, Coverity, QTest, Jira, Confluence, Puppet, Python, Bash/Shell, Groovy and SQL. Perforce Helix Core, Cadence vManager and MATLAB would be beneficial.

WA Consultants is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as described within The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

Job Details

Company
WA Consultants
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom CB1 0
Employment Type
Contract
Salary
GBP Daily
Posted