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DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
£60,000 - 78,000
itecopeople
4 Compton Business Centre, Cheltenham
£60,000 - 78,000
Requirements
Must:
- Active eDV clearance is essential
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar
- Strong knowledge of Terraform
- Proficiency with Docker containers and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)
- Experience maintaining and using CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins
- Monitoring and observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or InfluxDB
- Knowledge of event-driven integration and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or other AMQP solutions
- Strong Linux command line, administration, and shell scripting experience
- Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Familiarity with network security protocols
- Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda); Azure a plus
Responsibilities
- Ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of services supporting sensitive government programmes
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve subsystem reliability and performance
- Work with system administrators to automate operational processes and reduce manual effort
- Enhance monitoring and observability capabilities to proactively detect and resolve issues
- Support development environments to improve delivery speed and quality
- Contribute to the evolution of infrastructure, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines
- Research and evaluate new technologies and tools to support engineering decisions
- Develop expertise across multiple technical and business domains
- Participate in an on-call rota, including occasional 24/7 call-out support if required
Description
We are a specialist engineering consultancy delivering secure technology platforms to high-profile UK government organisations. Our team is dedicated to the continued growth of critical cross-domain systems, focusing on platform reliability, automation, and DevOps practices across both cloud and on-premise environments. This contract role is hybrid, based in Cheltenham, and offers a competitive rate of £500-£650 per day outside IR35.
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The company with most openings is Hays Technology as they are hiring for 80 different DevOps jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good DevOps.