Software engineering specialist

Randstad UK

Ipswich, UK

9 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Compensation

£169,000.0 - £182,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

find.jobs

Tech stack

Automation of Tests Configuration Management Code Review Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Linux Python (Programming Language) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ansible Prometheus Software Engineering CheckMK

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Delivery Pipeline Gitlab Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Software Coding Terraform Software Version Control Jenkins Artifactory

Job description

This role requires a developer background (strong Python) to ensure our infrastructure code and automation workflows adhere to modern software design standards., * Infrastructure as Code: Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.

Automation & Scripting: Develop custom automation tools, internal CLI systems, and integration scripts primarily in Python.
CI/CD Orchestration: Manage standard continuous delivery pipelines, integrating infrastructure updates, container deployments, and tool setups directly into developer workflows.
Tech Stack Delivery: Automate the provisioning and configuration of our operational ecosystem, including tools across observability (Prometheus, Elastic, Checkmk), security/compliance (Tenable, Red Hat Satellite), service registry/IPAM (NetBox), container orchestration (ArgoCD), and artifact management (Artifactory, GitLab).
Engineering Standards: Apply developer methodologies-such as version control, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD-to all infrastructure configurations.

Requirements

Software Development Foundation: Strong background in software engineering or development, with hands-on coding experience in Python.
Core IaC Expertise: Proven experience with Terraform (provisioning) and Ansible (configuration management).
Pipeline Delivery: Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) to ship both software and infrastructure changes.
Linux Environment: Solid understanding of Enterprise Linux environments (e.g., RHEL).