Are you a Devops Engineer looking for your next exciting contract?

Must be able to reach one of the regional sites - London or Newcastle

Do you want to join a Global Consultancy on a long term project?

If so, this ones for you!

We are on the lookout for a Devops Engineer to join the project of a Global Consultancy to work for one of their end clients operating in the Banking & Finance sector.

Contract: Initial 6-months initially with view to extend!

Location: Newcastle or London (On-Site)

We need a DevOps Engineer to join a high-profile project within the Financial services space.

This is an opportunity to deliver the agility and speed-to-market needed to thrive in today's competitive technical landscape: hack, plan, prototype, innovate, automate, containerise, data wrangle, support and manage work in the DevOps & Engineering stream in the run phase of the project.

We're looking for the following skill set:

Excellent verbal and written communications skills to collaborate effectively with customers (all levels), peers, and vendors
Experience of consulting engagements
Demonstrated experience applying good CI/CD principles in complex multi-environment domains
Understanding and implementation of GitOps principles, processes, and tools.
Experience with Agile Scrum for development, deliver and Use of collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence.
Advanced knowledge relating to automation, security, stability and scalability in private and public cloud environments (AWS and MS Azure); More focus on private cloud - on-premises (Client Datacentres) in relation to this project.

Key Skills

MTLS for apps on VMs and containers
Openshift/K8 skills
Ansible
Terraform
ApiGee
Cassandra
Jenkins - Declarative Pipelines - Management and creation of pipelines
GitOps - Kustomize configuration
Twistlock
CyberArk + Conjur

Hands-on(preferably) technology experience working with relevant technologies (or similar) such as:

Build systems - Jenkins
Automation technologies - Ansible
Source control and code management - GitHub
Public Cloud - AWS
Containers - Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
Understanding of Automated testing - Selenium, Cucumber
Operational monitoring - Splunk
Application security and Vault technologies - Hashicorp Vault
Web/application Servers - NGINX, Node, Apache
API gateways - Specifically ApiGee
Collaboration tools - Jira, Mattermost, Confluence

Experience on projects with:

SaFE for project delivery
Demonstrated Client facing from the technical level to the C-Suite level
Environment Architecture
Infrastructure as Code
JSON, YAML
Python