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DevOps Engineer
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote
Experience
3 years
Job description
A DevOps Engineer role on a new team deploying and maintaining an established cross-domain system for a customer, working in a managed service environment. The system uses an AMQP event-driven microservices architecture with Docker container services.
At a glance
- Employment
- Contract · Independent contractor
- Work mode
- Remote
- Pay
- GBP 500 – 600 / day
What you'll do
- Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production as efficiently as possible
- Maintain the system to agreed service level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system generated metrics
- Instrumentation of new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance
- Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventative/remedial action to minimise customer impact
- Liaising with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements as they arise
- Apply automation techniques to reduce manual operations burden
- Maintain a continuous deployment pipeline
- Work with feature delivery teams to promote component releases into production
- Apply configuration management tools to ensure all deployments are consistent and correctly configured
What we're looking for
- Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible)
- Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
- Experience using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or GitHub actions)
- Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Linux command line, administration and shell scripting
- Solid understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery best practices
- Working knowledge of network security protocols
- Working knowledge of AWS
- Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana
- Eligibility for BPSS / SC / DV clearance and meeting the UK Government's residency and right-to-work requirements
Nice to have
- Experience of working in a managed service environment
- Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
- Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution)
- Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies
- Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar)
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About TwinStream
Formed in 2019 by engineers who were solving complex cross-domain problems within government organisations, TwinStream brings together their collective expertise and experience into a single business focused on delivering technical excellence and high-quality service to clients. The company has grown to over 100 team members across the UK, with colleagues working on-site with clients, hybrid and remotely from home.
Key facts
- over 100 team members
- 2019
- 3-month (rolling) contract outside of IR35
- £500 to £600 per day
- Fully remote
- Over 100 team members across the UK
What they value
- Diversity & Inclusion