DevOps Engineer Bristol (Hybrid, Flexible - 1 day a week in the office)
£600 - £650 a day Outside IR35
We are working in partnership with a well-known firm in Bristol to hire a DevOps Engineer - you will play a crucial role in enhancing their development processes, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and continuous deployment of our applications.
- Collaborate with full stack software developers to containerize applications, including backend, frontend and components.
- Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability of our applications.
- Implement and maintain software version control systems, ensuring best practices in code management and collaboration.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Monitor and troubleshoot application performance and infrastructure issues, ensuring quick resolution and minimal downtime.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features and improvements.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies to continuously enhance our DevOps practices.
Experience and Skills Required:
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a strong emphasis on Python software development.
- Extensive experience in the telecom industry is highly beneficial.
- Expertise in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, or similar.
- Strong knowledge of software version control systems, particularly Git.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with cloud platforms such as VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of network protocols and telecom systems.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.
- Understanding of security best practices in a DevOps environment.
If this role is of interest, please apply below