DevOps Engineer

Twinstream Limited

Gloucester, UK

3 months ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Compensation

£130,000.0 - £156,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

find.jobs

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Advanced Message Queuing Protocol Command-Line Interface Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Relational Databases DevOps Disaster Recovery Github

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Monitoring of Systems Python (Programming Language) Network Security Linux System Administration Enterprise Messaging Systems OpenShift Performance Tuning RabbitMQ Ansible Prometheus Shell Script Software Engineering SQL Databases Docker Swarm Grafana Cloudformation Amazon Relational Database Service Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Influxdb Functional Programming Terraform Docker Jenkins Golang Microservices

Job description

We re now looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to join a new team supporting the deployment and ongoing operation of a sophisticated cross-domain platform.

The DevOps Engineer Role

You ll play a key role in deploying, maintaining and improving a highly available event-driven microservices platform built around Docker container services and AMQP messaging.

Working closely with feature delivery teams, you ll help drive reliable production releases, maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve observability and ensure systems continue to meet demanding SLA/SLO targets.

This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned engineer who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, automating infrastructure and working with modern DevOps tooling in a managed service environment.

What You ll Be Doing

Collaborating with development teams to promote releases into production efficiently and safely
Maintaining highly available services using real-time monitoring and system metrics
Building and improving monitoring, alerting and observability capabilities
Investigating alerts and incidents, implementing preventative and remedial actions
Working with customer stakeholders to coordinate releases and evolving service requirements
Driving automation to reduce manual operational overhead
Supporting continuous improvement across infrastructure, deployment and operational processes

Requirements

Infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible
Docker containers and orchestration platforms including Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm
CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
Linux administration, shell scripting and command-line tooling
AWS environments and cloud infrastructure
Monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana or InfluxDB
SQL and relational databases
Performance tuning, troubleshooting, scaling and disaster recovery
Network security principles and protocols

Desirable Experience

Any of the following would be beneficial:

Managed service environments
AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3 and Lambda
RabbitMQ or other AMQP/event-driven messaging platforms
Cross-domain technologies and principles
Software development experience in Java, Go, Python or similar languages

Additional Information

Due to the nature of the work and client environments, any offer will be subject to successful completion of security screening and clearance requirements.

About the company

DevOps Engineer Contract (Outside IR35) £500 £600 per day Fully Remote

Founded in 2019 by engineers solving complex cross-domain challenges within government organisations, TwinStream was built on a passion for technical excellence and delivering high-quality solutions.

Today, we re a growing team of over 100 specialists across the UK, working remotely, hybrid and on client sites to deliver secure, scalable and innovative systems for our customers.