DevOps Engineer - Hybrid

Belfast

1 year ago

Applications closed

About Our Client

Our client believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, they create opportunity from complexity.

They have diverse teams of experts to combine innovative thinking and breakthrough

technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together they

achieve enduring results.

4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and

technologists. And they have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and

security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health

and life sciences, and transport.

Their teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

We are currently looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a collaborative team, driving business

transformations through strategic insights and agile engineering at an internet scale. Focusing

on the ‘Dev’ in DevOps, you'll 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

real-world results.

Responsibilities

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

Contribute to the delivery team, working independently on complex tasks and applying

your DevOps expertise to deliver high-quality 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)

Server less 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

Our client is 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

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. LPIC-1)

Kubernetes certifications (e.g. CKA)

On offer is a comprehensive technical training package to employees and the business will fund appropriate certification exam costs to support their cloud alliances.

Our client is dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of their people. Check out some of the 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 charity-based initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

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

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