Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote, Inside IR35)

• Senior DevOps Engineer

• £550 - £650 per day – Inside IR35

• 6 month contract

• Initially remote working and then ideally Cambridge 2-3 days per week once offices re-open but open to full remote working

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer for a 6 month contract to join our Core Test and Build Infrastructure team based in Cambridge or Manchester to help us deliver enabling tools to our engineering teams. Our team is responsible for developing and operating services on Kubernetes (OpenStack), and on AWS (EKS) such as Jenkins, and Hashicorp Vault with monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana as well as delivering fast feedback metrics using Tableau.


We’re looking for someone who has a real passion for DevOps principles and methodologies. This is a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring engineer to develop skills through working within a cutting edge, successful, multi-national organization, surrounded by a vibrant community of passionate engineers.



Job Requirements

A successful candidate will be flexible, with a variety of software development skills and have a dedication to extend the breadth and depth of their knowledge in the following areas:

• Define, develop, tailor and deliver and operate Core services MacOS signing in Go, Testrail servers in AWS using EKS

This includes

• Design and development of Helm Charts for Kubernetes
• Troubleshooting issues with Kubernetes and the deployment
• Creating a test suite run using Robot Framework CI in Jenkins
• Creating Monitoring to predict any failures
• Creating Backup and restore using Restic and Velero, with Cleversafe storage
• Create comprehensive technical documentation
• Creating reporting in Tableau for metrics
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Support for the engineering teams

Education and Qualifications

A university degree in math, physics, engineering, computer science, or equivalent is essential. Minimum 3 years working experience as DevOps as a contractor.

Skills and Experience

• A demonstrable good level of proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python or Java and a willingness and capability to learn more.
• Good understanding and certification on AWS deployment
• Proficient in Unix (Linux) Systems Administration and shell scripting
• Reasonable Kubernetes/EKS Admin knowledge
• Version control and code review systems such as Git, Gerrit
• Virtualization and cloud technologies such as Docker, Vagrant, OpenStack etc.

On top of this, you will need to have experience with at least one of the following technology areas:

• Software build and test solutions such as Jenkins and Buildbot,
• Automation tools like Puppet, Ansible, Foreman
• Test automation framework like Robot Framework
• Monitoring, Metrics and results visualization tooling
• Development board build/test farm
• TestRail, Vault, SonarQube, Scalr, ArgoCD