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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps Engineer - **Company:** J&C Associates - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £5,257.0 - £20,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Link Aggregation (Ethernet), Amazon Web Services, Application Layers, Microsoft Azure, Data Centers, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Failover Clustering, Monitoring of Systems, Hyper-V, Information Technology Operations, Internet Small Computer System Interface (ISCSI), System Center Operations Management, Windows Servers, Nagios, Network Monitoring, Network Virtualization, Windows PowerShell, Remote Direct Memory Access, Ansible, VMware Infrastructure, Virtual Local Area Networks, Web Applications, Data Logging, System Availability, Firewalls (Computer Science), Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Performance Monitor, Puppet, Splunk - **Published:** July 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www1.jobdiva.co.uk/portal/?a=34jdnwd4ls8uthmwrzi4o3humpp74fc3d5cx3iu8mtcrkknzjqz9d2mvwwdvi9j7.co.ukpid=0/jobs/11228179#/jobs/11228179 ## About the Role * Self-starter, methodical, collaborative, comfortable taking ownership, adapting to change and learning quickly in a fast-paced team with minimal supervision * Excellent written and verbal communication skills. * Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V, System Centre Suite, PowerShell, PowerShell DSC. DNS / AD. * Various storage system experience (fibre, iSCSI, CSV's, Storage Spaces, Local) * Designing and implementing virtual networking infrastructure and the ability to carry out low level troubleshooting. * Ability to analyse application and server logs, error interpretation * To work well under pressure, both autonomously and as part of a team * Proven problem-solving ability * Excellent written and oral communication * Experience with automation and configuration management tools like PowerShell DCS, Ansible, CHEF, Puppet * Experience developing and implementing logging and monitoring systems like ELK, SPLUNK, NAGIOS, SCOM etc * Data centre experience. Cable management, rack mounting, etc. Essential Skills * Typically 5 years' experience of supporting web application systems * Experience of ITIL processes and practises * Thorough and logical with attention to detail * Experience managing the operating applications in Azure and AWS * Good understanding of Infrastructure technical architecture ## Description We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a massive Global Consultancy who require a Devops Engineer for one of their clients. This will be a 6-month contract based in London. The Platform Operations Engineer is accountable to the Director of Platform Operations, key responsibilities include: * * Learning the client's and Legal Anywhere' s products and services and providing 1st -3rd level support * Day-to-day operational and functional support of the client's applications and the underlying infrastructure following established processes and procedures. * Own and provide level 3 technical analysis / support for customer incident tickets * Quickly respond to high impact application incident / service outages, to assist in issue diagnosis and service restoration * Carry out release deployments for the application * Liaising with the development team and support team to provide solutions to problems or issues. * Provide deep dive analysis on application problems, document root cause, assist in the creation of incident reports and suggest / help implement proactive activities to help avoid future occurrence. * Maintaining application stability and integrity by Identifying enhancements to improve supportability, operability or performance of supported application(s) * Setting up servers and applications according to specifications * Identify and help implement continuous improvement initiatives within the IT Operations team * Platform performance monitoring and optimisation including networking layer, storage layer, OS/Application layer. Identify bottlenecks single points of failure etc. * Complete assigned project work within defined timescales * Monitoring and responding to alerts from applications and infrastructure systems. * Identify and assist in the development of the knowledge base documents to help streamline and the restoration of all issues. * Microsoft Windows Server 2016 administration, troubleshooting * Strong experience of multi-site high availability design, configuration and administration of Microsoft Windows Server 2016 virtual infrastructure * Virtual networking (Hyper-V) * Hyper-V clustering technologies e.g. Failover Clustering, Cluster Shared Storage, Storage Spaces Direct, iSCSI, RDMA * Assist in the continual improvement of the infrastructure, network monitoring and alerting systems * Assist in the design, implementation and testing of the client's High Availability and disaster recovery systems across multiple datacentres around the globe. * Participate in the creation and maintenance of the technical architecture and operational documentation * Administration and maintenance of firewall and switches, VLANs, NIC teaming, LACP The candidate ## Related Videos - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) - [Automate everything via NodeJS and Puppeteer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/322-automate-everything-via-nodejs-and-puppeteer) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Enabling automated 1-click customer deployments with built-in quality and security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/83-enabling-automated-1-click-customer-deployments-with-built-in-quality-and-security) - [From clicks to cribs - How to find your dream home with web scraping](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/767-from-clicks-to-cribs-how-to-find-your-dream-home-with-web-scraping) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs) - [IT Salaries in UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/288-it-salaries-in-uk)