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A leading international investment bank.
Job Description
The DevOps Specialist will be part of a multi-disciplined team defining and building solutions to automate day-to-day processes with a view of providing platforms that are more efficient for users. The candidate must help drive improvements to processes and help design automated enhancements with a view of continual improvement. The role is centred on an agile DevOps mind-set and requires a wide range of technical skills. The candidate will work closely with a wide variety of teams to:
- Have appreciation of production readiness and work with teams to understand user requirements
- Work to a set of prioritised tasks ensuring regular updates ensuring the target solution remains the key focus
- Understand phased delivery to ensure work is completed to a defined specification and schedule
- Help identify efficiencies in processes and contribute to their automation
- Thoroughly test automated processes ensuring they are robust and meet requirements
- Contribute to medium and high scale technical projects by contributing to architecture review and design, upgrading and migrating application systems to new platforms.
- Provide feedback and propose solutions to management on performance, capacity and design issues
- Document designs and architectures and distribute minutes and meeting actions
The DevOps Specialist will also work with other teams to respond to incidents and resolve issues promptly, often under pressure, to restore normal services to the business. Therefore, ability to be on call and provide support out of hours may be required.
The Successful Applicant
In order to succed in the role it is important you are familiar and passionate about the following key technologies required.Role Specific Technical Skills – Must Have
- Expert knowledge in source code management including Bitbucket and SVN.
- Automation – Expertise of automated test and release cycles and server automation tools such as Ansible, BladeLogic, Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, and integration with security vaults
- Expert knowledge in CI/CD, Jenkins in particular, with good infra experience in both building the platform as well as creating and configuring pipelines as a user
- Experience in migrations from legacy platforms to new solutions ensuring technology evolution is maintained
- Expert knowledge in Docker and Kubernetes, not only as a user but admin and infrastructure design
- Knowledge of programming and scripting methodologies and demonstrable proficiency in writing code in one or more of the following languages; Python, Ansible, Groovy, Shell
- System administration – In-depth knowledge in Linux/Unix and good knowledge on Windows systems
- Good general understanding of global infrastructure, firewalls and networking and considerations in these areas.
- Networks – Good understanding of network principals and practical knowledge of load balancing technologies
- Understanding of user and server authentication enabling end to end automated release cycles whilst ensuring security is a primary consideration
- Understand of cloud based platforms and solutions and delivery of PAAS solutions
Desirable IT Skills
- Security – Knowledge of and API interaction with Cyberark or Hashicorp Vault
- Build Tools -Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket and CI platforms
- Databases – exposure to or skills in SQL Server, Oracle and noSQL DBs
- Monitoring and log management – Geneos, Splunk, XpoLog, ELK
- Understanding of application lifecycle and Agile methodology
- Good tasks management, prioritisation, risk management
- Appreciation of production processes, including change and release management
What’s on Offer
An initial 6 month contract with likely extensions. Day rate is between £650- £700 (Inside IR35) depending on experience.
You will be required to be on site with the client – 2-3 days per week in central London
Cv’s are being reviewed early next week with interviews also being scheduled.
Contact
James Doris
Quote job ref
JN-102040
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