DevOps Architect

My client based in London, are looking to hire an excellent DevOps Architect on an initial 6-month contract at a day rate of 500-600.

You will be working on a business-critical project to move one of the key products from on-prem to a Cloud solution (AWS). As part of this migration, you will be looking to innovate a number of automated solutions to improve business efficiency.

The Role

• Actively contribute to the development and deployment of CI/CD services
• Help to advance the project using open source, docker and micro-service architecture knowledge
• Ensure that the best suited and capable solutions are being implemented, ideally bringing knowledge of such tools/solutions

• Experience of introducing practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps to teams
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure

• Engage with multiple stake-holders, at varying levels of management in engineering, ensuring that the implementation is reflective of the primary requirements.
• Work closely with the DevOps team to develop, maintain and deploy systems for use across engineering.
• Experience of mentoring and supporting your colleagues, whether one-to-one or in groups
• Enthusiasm for sharing knowledge and working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of open source principles and technologies
• The ability to quickly learn new languages and frameworks and willingness to pick the right tool for the job
• Managed 3rd party suppliers

Skills/Knowledge

• CI/CD knowledge - PreferredJenkins but flexible
• Cloud Technology -AWS
• Micro-services architecture
• Configuration Management and Orchestration -Ansible, Kubernetes
• Experience of running Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Strong knowledge of Linux
• Distributed Systems
• Knowledge of open source language such as Ruby, Python, .Net
• Good understanding ofDocker
• Working with Agile environments