Lead DevOps Engineer

Fixed Term Contract (will consider contract)

Salary: £100k plus (including good employee benefits)

Initial duration: 12-18 months (possible extension or permanent position)

Astraeus Consulting has an exciting opportunity for a number of Lead DevOps Engineers to work on one of the largest and highest profile Central Government Programmes, changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be part of a multi-functional agile delivery team and be an integral part of shaping and delivering automated solutions. You will be using your experience and technical expertise to support the programme to design, implement, operate, and evolve new and existing services and infrastructure.

You must be a technical leader and a hands-on engineer, in addition to coaching and developing existing DevOps Engineers.

Essential 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 timescales and engaging with multiple stakeholders.

Applicants: MUST HAVE ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE.

If you have the above requirements, please apply or reach out directly to me at jack.latham@interquestgroup.com.

InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.