Role: DevOps EngineerLocation: Slough-Berkshire, UKSalary: £38000 - £40000IT Global Consulting Limited is seeking an experienced and highly motivated DevOps Engineer responsible for development, maintenance, and ongoing support of the platform. The role involves acting as the internal focal point for an enterprise platform. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, ambitious, and eager to stay at the forefront of DevOps technologies.Duties and ResponsibilitiesWork within an agile environment utilizing CI/CD pipelines.Design logical infrastructure and understand its physical translation.Support teams in mapping stories to platforms, ensuring secure service deployment.Develop and support platform activities, such as creating hardened base containers.Identify and advise on best practices and delivery risks.Assist engineers with service topology, QA, and deployment pipelines.Promote adoption of new tools and improve support processes.Assess applications and hardware using AWS.Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud-native services with third-party tools.Enhance existing services for performance and reliability.Build and manage VPC environments for various stages like Sandbox, Dev, Test, and Production.Automate deployments with infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi or Terraform.Support containerization and troubleshooting with Docker.Follow agile methodologies.Architect, design, develop, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters; lead team efforts.Utilize skills in Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and automation.Implement autoscaling on AWS using tools like Karpenter.Experience with Crossplane is a plus.Deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native and third-party tools.Proficient in shell scripting and Python.Use monitoring platforms like Datadog and Prometheus.Manage build/deployment tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Maven, Helm.Monitor with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack.Follow security best practices in cloud environments and assess application security standards.Knowledge of Nix is desirable.Work independently and collaboratively, engaging with stakeholders to align solutions with business needs.Innovate to improve processes and user experiences.Meet tight deadlines while maintaining quality.Develop automated test suites supporting CI/CD environments.Collaborate with internal and external teams to design and document solutions.Write clean, testable, high-quality code.Skills, Knowledge, and QualificationsExperience with AWS, Azure, Java, Cloud security, and cybersecurity.Nice-to-Have Technologies and ExperienceNginxIPv4 NetworkingSoftware engineering in C/C++, Java, Python, Go, Rust, Node.jsTest automationRelational and non-relational data technologiesPersonal TraitsPassion for technologyInitiative and self-learningTeam player with ownership qualitiesCertifications (Optional but Advantageous)AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalSun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)ITILv3 Foundation #J-18808-Ljbffr