Devops Engineer

The role is as a client-facing Technical DevOps Engineer working in a Platform scrum team responsible for the provisioning of AWS-hosted infrastructure underneath, as well as the configuration and deployment playbooks of, two core CDS components delivered by IBM; IBM MQ and the Declaration Management Service (DMS).

Your responsibilities: Our DevOps Engineering team is responsible for implementing coding & test best practice; collaborating with other team members in elements of Component / DevOps Architecture; creating CI / CD pipelines; engaging with clients remotely to influence design and tooling decisions to ensure maximum benefit to HMRC.

As well as the above, you may be involved in supporting the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) programme

• Comfortable with coding in Terraform, Ansible and Bash Shell.
• Experience in working with AWS console and the AWS CLI to provision and manage infrastructure.
• Knowledge of AWS networking concepts, including VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, and Network ACLs
• Understand AWS security best practices and implement appropriate IAM roles, policies, encryption mechanisms and access controls to maintain the desired security posture.
• Strong understanding of Source Code Management and familiar with Gitlab tooling around branching, merging, tagging and release management.
• Ability to work with client teams remotely to aid successful design and delivery of new functionality.
• Experience in working with agile, collaborative teams which are accountable for pulling in work and delivering against a sprint backlog using tools like Jira / Confluence.

• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Program
• Medical and Dental cover
• 22 days holiday + bank holidays
• Maternity Pay/Shared Parental leave and paternity leave
• Sick pay

Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpower group of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively. Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.