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DevOps Engineer

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Manchester
7 months ago
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We are currently looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our collaborative team driving business transformations through strategic insights and agile engineering at an internet scale. Focusing on the Dev in DevOps youll collaborate with clients across various sectors implementing automation continuous integration and continuous delivery solutions. This role offers a unique opportunity to solve complex problems and deliver impactful digital transformations that drive realworld results. 

Responsibilities 

As a Consultant in our DevOps practice you will be expected to: 

  • Contribute to the delivery team working independently on complex tasks and applying your DevOps expertise to deliver highquality work 

  • Support business development activities including contributing to bids and proposals 

  • Develop innovative solutions to address client challenges and communicate those solutions to clients 

  • Build and maintain positive relationships with the client and your peers 

  • Focus on personal development and support peers through mentoring and knowledge sharing 

Skills & Experience 

Desirable skills include: 

  • Experience with at least one common programming or scripting language (e.g. Shell Python JavaScript) 

  • Knowledge and experience of common cloud services (i.e. one or more of AWS Azure GCP) 

  • Development of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) 

  • Implementation of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions GitLab CI AWS CodePipeline Azure DevOps Google Cloud Build Jenkins Drone) 

  • Serverless technologies (e.g. AWS Lambda Google Cloud Functions Azure Functions) 

  • Containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes OpenShift) 

  • Tools for logging monitoring alerting and observability (e.g. ELK Splunk Prometheus Grafana) 

  • Working knowledge of operating systems including CLI experience deploying and configurating application or web servers 

We are currently operating a discretionary hybrid working model which is designed to help you plan your work and your life. We want our people to come into the office at least two days a week.


Qualifications :

We value realworld experience more highly than formal qualifications. However if you do have any of the certifications below we would be interested to hear from you. 

Desirable qualifications or equivalent experiences would include: 

  • Cloud Architecture certifications (e.g. AWS Solution Architect Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect)  

  • Cloud DevOps certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Developer Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Fundamentals Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer) 

  • Linux certifications (e.g. LPIC1 

  • Kubernetes certifications (e.g. CKA) 

PA offers a comprehensive technical training package to employees and will fund appropriate certification exam costs to support our cloud alliances. 

We know the skillgap and somewhat need to tick every box can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application


Additional Information :

Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds identities and minds embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PAhere.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical emotional social and financial wellbeing of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

  • Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
  • 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
  • Generous company pension scheme
  • Opportunity to get involved with community and charitybased initiatives
  • Annual performancebased bonus
  • PA share ownership
  • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work give as you earn)

We recruit retain reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age background disability genetic information parental or family status religion or belief race ethnicity nationality sex sexual orientation gender identity (or expression) political belief veteran status or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodationsShould you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process at either application or interview please contact us.

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Fulltime


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