Senior DevOps Engineer

☞ UKRI

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Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: Swindon South West

Category: High Technology Mechanical / Technical Electrical / Electronics IT - Software

Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management Government Administration Financial Services

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

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Senior DevOps Engineer
UKRI, Swindon
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Open Ended
Salary: £50,702 - £56,336 per annum (depending on experience)
Closing Date: 19th July 2021
The Organisation
Operating across the whole of the UK with a combined budget of more than 6 billion, UK Research and Innovation is a new entity that brings together nine partners to create an independent organisation with a strong voice for research and innovation, and a vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. UKRI will build on the successful elements from the current funding system and maximise the contribution of each of the component parts to create the best environment for research and innovation to flourish.
Job Purpose
The Digital Services team are part of the Digital Data & Technology (DD&T) directorate of UKRI Corporate services. The team is responsible for building, delivering and iterating the digital services used by UKRI in pursuit of their organisational goals. DD&T is a key enabler of a major transformation programme within UKRI where 9 councils are transforming to represent one large organisation responsible for driving research and innovation across the UK economy. Digital services are core to providing a modern and enabling interface between UKRI and its stakeholders.
This is a key role within a technology-focussed team, with the successful DevOps Engineer required to define, implement, manage and maintain the hosting environments working with suppliers and other stakeholders as applicable to ensure fit for service architecture/processes are delivered.

Experience Required

Processes and standards -
  • Extensive experience of Agile software development and working in SCRUM teams
  • Define, implement, manage and maintain the hosting environments required to support UKRIs strategic objectives for platforms and hosting
  • Working with suppliers and other stakeholders as necessary to ensure fit for service architecture and processes are implemented
  • Proven ability to build effective relationships with third party suppliers and employees
  • Operational management of infrastructure and applications
  • Building and configuring new server platforms and infrastructure, using automated tooling to do so
  • Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems
  • Supporting development teams configuring applications for deployment
  • Assessing the DevOps maturity of the organisation and identifying/implementing improvements as applicable
  • Identification and development of resources to establish a sustainable internal capability for long term DevOps and hosting needs.
Technical background -
  • Substantial experience in System Administration predominantly in CentOS and RHEL with skills in networking / routing / load balancing and VPN configuration
  • Strong scripting and language skills i.e. Ruby, Bash, Python, Java
  • Substantial experience in public cloud implementations - creation of and migration to
  • Understanding of common web application architectures
  • Experience of using automated environment build tooling e.g. Terraform for Infrastructure as Code and Ansible for Configuration Management
  • Experience of Securely building infrastructure within the AWS cloud using AWS technologies such as lambda, S3, EC2, IAM, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Route53, SES, RDS, Elasticache, Autoscaling, Load balancers, VPC, etc.
  • Working experience of databases, such as Oracle/PL­SQL, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
  • Experience of core technologies such as containerization(docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes/RedHat OpenShift/Fargate), Vagrant/Virtualbox, CoreOS and GlusterFS
  • Experience of working with Development Teams to deliver optimal continuous integration and continuous deployment strategies.
  • Experience debugging pipelines and operational issues
  • Installation and management of COTS/open source monitoring tools such as Splunk, Nagios, New Relic, AppDynamics, ELK
  • Working experience of other software such as Jira, Confluence, Stash, Nexus, Artifactory, SonarQube.
What We Offer
Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits including a flexible working scheme, a Career Average Revalued Earnings pension scheme, 30 days annual leave allowance, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.
How to Apply
Applications are handled by UK Shared Business Services, to see more details and to apply please visit our job board.
Please include a covering letter outlining how you fit the role criteria.
The closing date for applications is 19th July 2021.
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