infrastructure DEVops engineer

Our Financial Services client is looking for a highly skilled Infrastructure Devops engineer to join their edinburgh or london based team for a 6 months initial contract.

THIS ROLE SITS INSIDE IR35

• Highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer to design, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS - Must have, GCP - Nice to have) and a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and networking principles.
• Focus on ensuring high availability, performance, and security of cloud environments while optimising resource utilisation.
• Automate cloud infrastructure deployments and management processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual interventions.
• Implement and manage networking solutions, including VPC, subnets, VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Ensure cloud environments meet security best practices, including IAM, encryption and auditing.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Automate repetitive tasks and ensure seamless cloud provisioning, scaling, and updates.
• Set up and maintain monitoring solutions to track the health and performance of cloud infrastructure.
• Implement performance tuning strategies for cloud resources, optimising both cost and resource utilisation.
• Provide troubleshooting and support for cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Help monitor cloud usage and cost, suggesting optimisation to reduce overheads and improve resource allocation.
• Stays up to date on pricing models for AWS, and GCP to ensure cost-efficient cloud usage.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues.
• Experience with containerised environments and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Build and maintain automated infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, and deployments using tools like Jenkins, Teamcity or GitLab.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions (eg CloudWatch, Splunk) to ensure high availability and performance.
• Troubleshoot issues in pipeline and cloud infrastructure, resolving them quickly.
• Ensure security best practices are embedded throughout the CI/CD pipeline and cloud infrastructure.
• Nice to have - Familiarity with Apigee Hybrid/X, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.