DevOps Engineer (AWS/GCP, Python, CI/CD)

GCS Ltd
Sheffield, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 143K

Job location

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
User Authentication
Automation of Tests
Bash
Cloud Computing
Computer Security
Computer Programming
Databases
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Data Security
Database Schema
Linux
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Identity and Access Management
Python
Liquibase
NoSQL
Ansible
Prometheus
Software Engineering
Systems Integration
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Google Cloud Platform
Grafana
Containerization
Gitlab-ci
Kubernetes
Information Technology
REST
Terraform
Splunk
Software Version Control
Serverless Computing
Docker
Jenkins
Go
Microservices

Job description

Responsibilities will include:

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, with a focus on traceability and regulatory controls.
  • Design, develop and maintain highly available, secure, and performant Back End REST API services along with Front End client using Python, Golang, Docker and Cloud-Native services.
  • Manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS, ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
  • Collaborate closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
  • Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.
  • Implement and manage database schema changes using Liquibase, ensuring alignment with compliance and audit standards.

Requirements

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced DevOps Engineer to support development of services hosted on Public Cloud platforms. You will leverage your expertise in Infrastructure, Systems and Software Development, along with your DevOps proficiency across AWS, to design and implement resilient Front End client, Back End services, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native solutions. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact systems within a secure, high-availability environment for our company., The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
  • 5+ years of development experience with a strong focus on large-scale, distributed systems.
  • Proficient in Python.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, including cloud-native services, networking, IAM, and cost optimization. Experience with other cloud providers such as GCP is desirable.
  • Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.
  • Strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.
  • Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
  • A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.

Essential Skills

  • Demonstrable experience of:
  • Public Cloud. - AWS or GCP
  • Python - (Bash, Shell, Terraform could be acceptable depending on level of experience)
  • Infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
  • Linux
  • Relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Integration services such as messaging and streams.
  • Building RESTful API Services.
  • Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.
  • Microservices, and distributed tracing.
  • Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (eg, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Automation Scripting (using Scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).
  • Experience with Liquibase or similar tools for database change management and version control
  • Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.
  • Experience working within an Agile environment.
  • Programming experience in following languages: Golang & Python.
  • Good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption).
  • Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
  • Good non-functional testing experience.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience working in complex, large scale regulated environments.
  • AWS certifications (eg, AWS Certified Developer/AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
  • Proficient in Golang
  • Comes from Software Engineering background with infrastructure experience.

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