DevOps Engineer
Vallum Associates
Sheffield, United Kingdom
4 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 91KJob location
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Tech stack
DevOps
Groovy
JSON
Python
Maven
Performance Tuning
SonarQube
YAML
Sonatype
Caching
Npm(Software)
Terraform
Jenkins
Static Application Security Testing
Job description
- Design and maintain Groovy pipeline steps (build, test, package, scan, deploy).
- Extend Python tooling for SLSA provenance, SBOM generation, hash/digest accuracy, and security scan aggregation (SonarQube, Sonatype IQ,
- Optimize performance.
- Ensure artifact integrity.
- Refactor legacy scripts (remove global state, consolidate hashing, standardize templates).
- Document ci-config.yaml standards and usage patterns.
- Mentor engineers on secure pipeline development and supply-chain practices.
- Troubleshoot and prevent pipeline incidents.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering.
- Strong Jenkins + Groovy shared library expertise.
- Advanced Python automation (JSON/YAML processing, tooling scripts).
- Deep Maven/NPM/Python packaging knowledge; exposure to Helm/Terraform and container image metadata.
- Supply-chain security (SLSA, CycloneDX SBOM, digests).
- Experience with SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, containers, and SAST scanning.
- Proven performance tuning (caching, parallelization, dependency pruning).
