What's involved with this role: Role: Senior Digital DevOps Engineer Job Ref: QAD 2050/3110 Pay Rate: Competitive Market Rate Hours per week: 37 hours per week Contract Length: Anticipated 12 months Location: Hybrid working in London, Manchester or Newcastle We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a multi-functional agile delivery team and be an integral part of shaping and delivering automated solutions. The successful candidate will be expected to lead engineers as well as collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy. You will be a technical leader and a hands-on engineer within a capability team, in addition to coaching and developing existing DevOps Engineers. Key technical skills: Significant demonstrable experience of working in a DevOps environment - favouring and implementing Continuous Integration & Deployment over manual processes Significant demonstrable experience of designing, implementing, securing and supporting Unix/Linux based platforms (ideally RHEL / CentOS) and developing solutions using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go) Significant demonstrable experience of developing and supporting cloud-based application platforms in AWS Significant demonstrable knowledge of implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (ideally Gitlab CI & Jenkins). Significant demonstrable experience in designing and implementing best practices using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Packer, CloudFormation and Cloud-Init Experience of working and leading in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within specific time-scales and engaging with multiple stakeholders You will also have deep technical knowledge of developing and running at least two or more of the following technologies at scale: Data persistence - MongoDB/Atlas Messaging / events platforms - Kafka Observability tooling - Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Zabbix, CloudWatch Container hosting platforms - ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes, Rancher, Nomad Secrets Management - Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager Public Key Infrastructure - Hashicorp Vault, AWS Certificate Manager Identity management - Entra ID, Keycloak Desktop infrastructure - Apple Mobile Device Management, JAMF, ESET, Okta/Entra Security - TLS& PKI, Cloud Security, CIS Benchmarks, NCSC Cloud Security Principals, DAST/SAST Cloud Networking - TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints, Transit Gateway, HAProxy, Traefik, NGINX, Service Mesh (Linkerd, Istio, Consul Connect, Lattice) Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Security Clearance: SC highly desirable; candidates with active SC clearance will be fast-tracked. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let us know. If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we provide the best talent and encourage all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion. Please send your CV directly to centralgovtclrec.com Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please