DevOps Specialist
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £200 to £404.80 per day |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Location: | Knutsford, Cheshire, NE98 1YX |
| Company: | Experis |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | BBBH409821_1750675560 |
Summary
Role Title: AWS DevOps Engineer
Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2025
Location: Knutsford, Hybrid 2/3 days onsite
Rate: up to £404.80 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Job description:
This resource is required to assist in upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes thereby moving away from Obsolete technology (Cloudera), uplifting to RHEL 8, contributing towards improving stability and observability of the platform and providing advanced analytics tooling and services for modelling analytics
Role purpose / summary
- Working across continuous integration, development, build and deployment using automation & cloud technologies to support the growth of DevOps tooling.
- Candidate must be from support background - L2/L3. experience in production application support in AWS.
- Experience in incident and change management
- Would require to deployments and release of application and infra in production by following run books
- Must be good with CI/CD pipeline support, DevOps & Java
- Should be available for on-call support on rotational basis
- Need to be proactive.
- Excellent communication & stakeholder management
- Migration of existing applications to Cloud and the Build of new applications on Cloud
- Build automation jobs for CI/CD development, build and deployment of applications on Cloud.
- Build and support Cloud platforms(Internal/external) and complex multi-tiered, infrastructure environments. Working with cutting edge CI/CD technologies, using your initiative to identify improvements and work with multiple teams to see these through to resolution.
- Working with a broad Infrastructure technology stack including LinUI, Windows, RDBMS, Networks, JBOSS, Micro-Service Architecture.
- Test environment build, support & issue resolution
- Seamless DevOps delivery of infrastructure change from development through to production Essential Skills
- Strong scripting and integration skills (e.g. Shell, Python, Chef, Perl etc)
- Build engineering & automation of deployments
- DevOps tooling: Bit bucket, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, JIRA, Stash, GIT, TeamCity, Nolio
- Cloud technologies: Open Shift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- Deploying and configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot etc.
- Strong Jenkins experience managing continuous integration Desirable Skills
- Knowledge with micro-service architecture APIs
- Good Infrastructure, app server(JBoss) and database knowledge
- Active Director(AD) Authentication and Integration
- Red Hat Enterprise LinUI (RHEL)
- App Dynamics, ELK Elastic Search, Kibana, Splunk
- Understanding of code quality & security gates (sonarqube etc.)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!