Senior DevOps Engineer

Stevenage, ENG (GBR)
£600 - £650 Per Day
6 Months
Start date: ASAP
Ref: GSK0JP00083965

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Skills

devops
jenkins
cloud
infrastructure
kubernetes
terraform
azure
monitoring
elk
pipeline
api
saml
logging
software engineer
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Job description Posted 30 June 2020

Senior DevOps Engineer

Description:

High profile (C-Level) project to deploy enterprise wide service. Applicant will have a strong background in Kubernetes based services combined with experience of large scale system deployment, operation and management across the full software engineer pipeline from Development through Production. This project will enable GSK employees to develop containerised applications or services and have them automatically deployed to a managed Kubernetes cluster depending on workload and data requirements. The project will have three main components;

IaC to manage the infrastructure/resources
CI/CD to define, deploy and manage the service layer
CI/CD stub/definitions to manage the deployment of user written containers

Desirable skills;

DevOps/GitOps
Cloud agnostic Kubernetes service deployment (Helm preferred)
API Gateway management (Kong/Ambassador preferred) with Oauth/SAML authentication integration experience.
Experience with CI/CD (Azure DevOps/Jenkins)
Service monitoring; cluster metrics, logging, tracing and alerting

Technologies

Infrastructure as Code – Terraform
Kubernetes (AKS will be initial target platform)
Service configuration and deployment - Helm (kubectl & Yaml)
CI/CD - Azure Devops Pipelines (Jenkins)
API Gateways/Service Mesh - Ambassador/Kong/Istio
Monitoring (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) – Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack et

Additional information about the process

Join GSK’s vision to do more, feel better and live longer:

https://www.youtube.com/user/gskvision/

Who will I be working with?

http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/careers/meet-our-people/