DevOps Engineer (Java)
HybridLeeds, England, United Kingdom
Leeds, England, United KingdomHybridFull TimeMid LevelLarge
Full TimeMid LevelLarge
Job Summary
Implement and support improvements to enhance efficiency, software quality, and delivery times within the APS team. Manage a mix of development, DevOps, and support tasks using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Jenkins pipelines. Act as a business SME to facilitate information transfer, negotiate with stakeholders, and ensure services run effectively. Maintain system reliability through monitoring tools and schema change management while participating in an on-call rotation. Requires 2+ years of experience, UK security clearance, and willingness to travel.
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in a similar role
- Must have a willingness to travel
- Must have the right to work in the UK
- Must be able to attain a UK Security Clearance
- Experience of DevOps tooling, containers and containerisation
- Communication: Able to speak to stakeholders and be able to transfer business requirements into technical implementation
- Facilitate information/business knowledge: Able to act as a business SME and understand what the business needs and how to support this into an efficient DevOps team
- Stakeholder Management: Able to negotiate and influence with stakeholders to ensure the service runs effectively and efforts are placed correctly
- Strong knowledge of AWS and CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance
- Practical experience using Terraform and Kubernetes
- Experience in Java
- Experienced with multiple ecosystem databases, architecture and integration
- Experience with monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and performance
- Kubernetes & Helm: Strong understanding of container orchestration with Kubernetes and package management using Helm
- Experience with AWS Cloud
- CI/CD: Proficiency in setting up and maintaining pipelines, particularly with Jenkins
- Database Management: Experience with schema change management (e.g., Liquibase)
- GitOps: Understanding of GitOps principles
- Core Principles: A mindset focused on automation, proactive monitoring, continuous improvement, and defining best practices
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