Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 months contract - Hybrid working
Rate - IRO £600pd Inside IR35
Our government sector client is looking for a lead infrastructure engineer. You will help set up an infrastructure team to support the delivery of data services. This will involve setting up and managing cloud technologies for data services, including implementing new solutions.
Along with managing an infrastructure team, you will develop and maintain a robust, scalable network environment capable of supporting the clients' product teams' data services needs.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Development, maintenance, and enhancement of the security of cloud services, ensuring services are following the fundamental principles of least privilege access, encryption, and isolated networks.
2. Develop, document, and maintain scripts for tasks like data manipulation, automation, and tool development.
3. Lead on the patching and configuration of systems and servers.
4. Integrate and improve on existing processing systems.
You will have:
1. Experience of the system administration of Linux/Unix OS and the delivery of new services on Linux/Unix and open-source OS in a corporate environment.
2. Experience in multiple scripting and programming languages, such as Shell scripting, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, and Python for tasks like data manipulation, automation, and tool development.
3. Experience in the development and management of Cloud-based systems and platforms, particularly in AWS, including services such as EKS, ELK, Cognito, DynamoDb, RDS, IAM, Glue, Systems Manager, API Gateway, and Lambda.
4. Experience of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., GitHub, AWS DevOps tools, etc).
5. Experience in leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform, for building and managing cloud resources in line with best practices.
6. Experience in containerization and deployment with Docker and Kubernetes.
7. Experience of cloud security fundamentals: least privilege access, encryption, isolated networks.
8. An understanding of and experience with networking concepts and technologies (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, HTTP, CDN, LB, VPN, K8s Network Policies).
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