Dev Ops Engineer
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire (GBR)
- £700 - £764 Per Day
- 12 Months
- Start date: ASAP
- Ref: GSK0JP00096285
- terraform
- bash
- infrastructure
- public cloud
- automation
- atlassian
- scripting
- prometheus
- technologies
- circleci
Job description
Posted 13 July 2022
Job title: DevOps engineer
Location: Stevenage
LOA: End of the year
Pay Rate: £764 Per Day / Via Umbrella / Inside IR35
GSK is looking for:
- CWs - 3-year project(s), initially for 12-months engagement till EOY 2022
Work area:
- Tech
Job profile:
- DevOps Engineer
Employee's location:
- UK/Poland – 100% remote possible, with potential to extend to other European countries
Technologies and platforms:
- IT Infrastructure:
- Public cloud
- Azure
- (nice to have) Google Cloud Platform
- Containers:
- Kubernetes clusters including managed Kubernetes (AKS or GKE)
- Helm
- Docker-compose
- (nice to have) Open Policy Agent
- (nice to have) Networking Envoy, Kong, Cilium
- Infrastructure as Code:
- Terraform
- Automation and other tools:
- CI - Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI)
- CD – GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux
- Prometheus/Grafana configuration
- GitHub, JIRA & Confluence (or similar)
- Scripting with Python and Bash
- (nice to have) Go or Rust experience
- (nice to have) Security tools – SAST, DAST, Dependency Scanning
Ideal candidate's profile:
- Regular & Senior - 3+ years of experience
- Able to work autonomously for most of the day, creating solutions (code) that are part of a larger project
- Able to not only follow proposed design but also to present options, optimize and improve
- Self-learner eager to do deep dives into unknown areas of technology
- Able to document his work pre and post implementation, create high level diagrams
Project description, typical tasks and duties:
- Projects and deliverables:
- Provisioning of clusters using pre-defined Terraform modules from Infrastructure team
- Code to deploy and operate a service to build and publish Helm Charts and container images
- Configuring CI and CD environments, and creating workflows to build, test, deliver, and deploy artifacts
- Write code (e.g. Terraform, Python or Shell) to deliver modern IT infrastructure (cloud based) using Infrastructure as Code principles - mostly Kubernetes clusters + some PaaS services
- Design, implement, and maintain the operational components to leverage modern container infrastructure running Kubernetes
- Creating helm chart release definitions for services to be deployed
- Write code to integrate solutions into seamless workflows - CI/CD and (potentially) some workflow systems/solutions
- Work with software developers to fine-tune and improve the infrastructure and tools used to build it
- Improve local developer experience with local container provisioning definitions
- Proactively look for ways and solutions to improve effectiveness of your own work
- Deliver solutions with integrated "safety switches" to reduce human error factor, provide traceability, roll back capabilities and reduce IT security risk (shift left security)
- Tasks assignment and tracking - JIRA
- Write documentation in Atlassian Confluence - we need to document our work to submit it for approval and to be able to turn our deliverables into "live" systems.
- No on-call duties, no work on tickets, no weekend work
