Job Description
DevOps Engineer
Python, Ansible, Jenkins, Bash, Powershell
12 month contracts
Circa £600 a day
Corsham - Full time on site
SC Clearance required
You will join a consultancy delivering digital transformation to the MoD. The role will see you support the technical team responsible for the design, development, documentation, building and validation of infrastructure automation components which form part of the NSoIT(D) Platform. These automation components are primarily developed using Python3 (Low level automation), Ansible (Deployment), Jenkins (Configuration generation and build pipelines) and Bash (Linux)/PowerShell (Windows Server) with a focus on hardware components, specifically their various features, services, and configurations, as well as interactions with external REST/SOAP APIs and services.
The team's responsibilities include:
1. Apply complex problem solving to "reverse engineer" applications, designs and manual build instructions to create zero touch automation packages that are parameterised, dynamic and able to repeatedly and reliably deploy against these designs. Often these applications are Legacy, were created without automation in mind or are otherwise resistive to full, zero touch automation.
2. Create production quality code, following industry standard best practices as well as internal policies and procedures, util...