Devops Consultant

Role: DevOps Consultant

Location: Glasgow - (Hybrid working, 2/3 days on-site)

Duration: 6 Months

Day rate: £500 inside IR35

Role & Responsibilities:

Implement build and deployment pipelines for applications in Gitlab - Assist in conversion of - Convert existing applications to standardised pipelines - Manage cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code, including setting up a platform orchestrator to detect and maintain standardised config across multiple AWS accounts - Create platform automation to monitor applications and ensure compliance with firm standards - Participate in code reviews for team members - Develop and support our developer platform portal with React, Typescript, Express and Postgres - Release platform updates to production (with other team members)

Key Information

Candidate to be a part of the platform engineering team responsible for setting up the DevOps pipelines for application teams in the Corporate and Investment Bank. Should have past hands on DevOps experience and be able to set-up the various DevOps tooling components across applications

Mandatory Skill

Software Development experience in a significant project Experience with deployment technologies inc. Cloud infrastructure (esp. AWS), Kubernetes, Containers/Docker, git, Gitlab CI DevOps practices, including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Trunk-based Development Linux scripting and deployment experience. Python development and packaging (conda/wheel format/poetry/setuptools) Understanding of networking including TCP/IP, HTTP, firewalls, reverse proxy software like nginx/caddy Infrastructure Automation with helm, kustomize, cloud formation, terraform etc.

Desired Skill

Experience with the Backstage framework for developer portals. - React/Typescript full stack development - Data Science technologies including knowledge of spark, dask, parquet, iceberg formats, Apache Hadoop, Hive, Presto, SQL, Postgres, Immuta