DevOps Engineer/ Linux System Administrator

DevOps/ Linux System Administrator

We are a prestigious, world-leading IT consultancy helping clients harness the power of innovation and change. We serve almost 6000 clients across 70 countries.

Our experience across many industries enables us to harness the best ideas, practices and solutions from both the public and private sectors, for the benefit of every client. In line with our global strategy, we serve a wide range of industries, including Aerospace and Defence, Banking and Insurance, Health-care, Energy, Transportation, Retail and Consumer, as well as Public Sector. In addition to these, in the UK we also have specific experience and expertise in Post & Logistics, Central and Local Government and the Civil Nuclear sector.

Responsibilities

• Developing various infrastructure solutions including Public Cloud e.g. Azure and AWS as well as data / private cloud to deliver high availability, rapidly developed, fully automated solutions using predominately open source software which deliver value to the customer.
  
  
• Providing technical leadership, help and guidance to less experienced members of the team through mentoring, coaching, constructive review and active participation in various technical forums.
  
  
• Advising our customers on the latest technologies and methodologies, designing and implementing innovative approaches to their problems using Automation.
  
  
• Ensuring software standards are maintained, being able to train and mentor junior staff.
  
  Should be experienced in some or all of the following areas: -
  
  
• Configuration management tools, e.g. Ansible (preferred), Puppet, Chef.
  
  
• Build and provisioning tools, eg. Jenkins (preferred), Terraform, Packer, Team City etc.
  
  
• Cloud Environments including AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle cloud.
  
  
• Test Driven or Behaviour Driven development, and being able to implement automated test solutions
  
  
• The ability to integrate various products using APIs enabling a joined up automated approach
  
  
• Monitoring systems e.g. ELK, Nagios, New Relic, DataDog, Splunk etc.
  
  
• Docker container hosting including Kubernetes and Red Shift.
  
  
• Modern programming languages, understanding at least one of: Bash script, Python, Ruby, Perl, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell
  
  
• Digital delivery processes and methodologies
  
  
• Working in an Agile Team, being able to be self-driven and looking for continuous improvements to both the process and the systems.
  
  The candidate should demonstrate:-
  
  
• Attention to detail with a pragmatic and enthusiastic attitude to work.
  
  
• Ability to learn new skills and technologies.
  
  
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).

For more information, please apply with an up to date copy of your CV!

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