Hydrate Solutions is seeking a DevOps Architect for a 6-8 month contract. This role expands beyond simply execution - to providing thought leadership, best practices, and training of an existing team. You will be transitioning a large financial organization from an on-prem VM / RabbitMQ setup to a hybrid Kubernetes / Docker / etc. You will be expected to offer options to solve a variety of concerns, with the ability to clearly articulate the pros and cons of each.

This will primarily be a remote position, with quarterly travel to Copenhagen in Denmark (1-2 weeks/qtr).

Rate is $900 - $1,280 /day.

Skills: DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, Prometheus, Opentracing, Grafana, Jaeger, AMP, MessagePack, microsegment, PL1, CI/CD, RabbitMQ, Kafka.

Company Description

Hydrate Solutions is a high-end consultancy that is hyper-focused on guiding enterprises through major digital transformation initiatives. We provide heavy-hitters across the stack to help solve high-value, highly-visible projects.

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101 Ways

Expired

Principal SRE Consultant

£600 - £700/dayGreat rateRemoteOutside IR35

Agile Software Development

101 Ways is a digital consultancy that helps great clients do great things, solve challenging problems and build great digital products.

We're currently ramping up a large project team on an exciting new digital transformation for a household name, and we need a Principal/Lead consultant who can drive the SRE/Cloud vision for the project.

The Principal/Lead consultant needs to be someone can still be hands-on and able to combine technical expertise with strategic vision and mentoring in the field of continuous integration, continuous delivery, engineering efficiency, containerization, and engineering operations.

A successful consultant will have deep expertise in all phases of the software development lifecycle, as well as expert-level knowledge of the systems, technologies, and strategies used to automate and release software in a cloud environment.

Responsibilities

Has an excellent, hands-on understanding of tools and techniques required to plan, build, and run a development (DevOps) pipeline for container-based, cloud-based services.
Clearly articulate, define and execute on pipeline strategic vision based on business and engineering objectives.
Develop architecture standards for containerization and deployment designs.
Develop architecture standards and practices for pipeline development, enhancement, and maintenance
Solve complex problems related to  build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve service health, manageability, reliability, and telemetry.
Ability to read, write, configure, design, and script end-to-end service telemetry, alerting and self-healing capabilities for platforms.

6 months contract, outside ir35.

UK-based applicants only.