IT Global Consulting Limited - Seeking an experienced and highly motivated “DevOps Engineer” who is responsible for the development, maintenance and ongoing support for the platform and acting as the internal focal point for an enterprise platform. The person should be self‑motivated and ambitious, with an ongoing desire to maintain their knowledge level at the forefront of the DevOps process and technologies. Responsibilities

Working within an agile context with the use of CI/CD Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure. Supporting teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services. Undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers. Spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk. Supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines. Driving adoption of new tools so teams can improve their integration approaches; developing new or improved support processes for users. Work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to assess applications, software and hardware Develop, coordinate, and administrate AWS infrastructure by integrating cloud native services with third party products Enhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issues Build and manage VPC environments that cover Sandbox, DEV, Test, Production, Training, Support Automate deployments via infrastructure as code (Pulumi/Terraform) Fulfill containerization (Docker etc.) troubleshooting and support tasks Agile ways of working This role requires you to know how to architect, design, develop, deploy and operate a Kubernetes cluster and be a good leader for your team. Strong experience of Kubernetes. Autoscaling on AWS (Karpenter etc.). Crossplane experience a plus. Experience of DevOps concepts and experience of deploying CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third‑party tools. Excellent shell scripting and Python skills. Experience with monitoring/metrics platforms (Datadog/Prometheus). Build/Deployment – CI/CD, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Maven, Helm. Monitoring – Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack. Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments. Able to assess security of existing applications and define standards for new projects. Experience with Nix desirable. The desired profile is an expert and candidate must be able to work without supervision, while being a good team player. Work with key stakeholders in the business such as Solution Architects/Business teams to understand the needs of the business and map that into processes and solutions within the platform. Suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements and better user experiences. Capability of working to very tight timescales whilst maintaining quality product development. Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a CI/CD environment. Work with both internal and vendor development/business teams. Design and document solutions based on business requirements. Write well‑designed, testable, quality code following clean code principles.

Technical Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications • AWS, Cloud, Java. Nice to have technologies and experience

Nginx IPv4 Networking Software engineeringC/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node) Test automation Relational and non‑relational data technologies.

Personal traits we are looking for

Passion for technology Showing initiative Self‑learning. Being a team player, i.e. take ownership of contributing to the overall team capability and knowledge.

Certifications that give an advantage

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) for J2SE 6.0. Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD). ITILv3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Role DevOps Engineer Location Slough – Berkshire, UK. Salary £28,000 to £30,000. #J-18808-Ljbffr