Dev Ops

Job Description

Development OperationsEdinburgh/ Remote WorkingTemporary - 6 Months£520 Per day (Outside IR35)Monday - Friday 7:30am to 5:30pmPertemps are recruiting on behalf of our public sector client, who are looking for a Development Operations engineer for a 6 month contract. The position is based in Edinburgh but given the current restrictions, colleagues are mainly working from home, exceptwhere physical hardware is required which will be accessed on-site. This is a full-time vacancy working Monday to Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm with a daily rate of £520.Our client is on a journey to move from projects on-premise to products in the cloud. The Site Resilience team is one of several teams established to enable the client deliver high quality and resilient digital products. The team is multi-functional with astrong collaborative and agile culture.They are looking for an experienced Automation/ Infrastructure engineer to assist the client in the design and build of new network technology.Key Skills & Responsibilities

• Continued development and support of existing python codebase for wider infrastructure platform.
• Demonstrate excellent, sustainable and collaborative software development practices focused on delivering highly maintainable and readable code and other appropriate artefacts.
• Actively participate in all team events, leading where specialist knowledge is required, and supporting the team to improve their processes through inspection and adaptation.
• Engage with the wider client communities of practice and share knowledge, technique and experience.
• Routinely use collaborative development practices, such as pairing and mobbing techniques in programming, code reviews, system design and requirements analysis, etc.

Collaboratively design & deliver:

• An automation platform to support integration of an Arista solution using appropriate tooling, such as ansible/Tower, GIT, Artifactory and python.
• An orchestration pipeline and test environment to provide additional assurance before production.

EssentialSignificant commercial experience of the following technology:

• Networking (WAN/LAN process/ Switching technology/ Layer 3 routing technologies/ RESTful APIs)
• Ansible, preferably including Ansible Tower
• GIT
• Python
• Database integration
• Docker

Significant and demonstrable experience of the following:

• Designing and developing infrastructure as code, automation of SDNs and orchestration
• Delivering high quality code collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions
• Agile working practices and principles, including Kanban, retrospectives, VFQ.
• Risk awareness, focused on risk reduction and mitigation
• Strong proponent of automation in design and implementation

Desirable

• Working with CI/CD pipelines to automate delivery - preferably with Arista AVD and the Cloudvision portal
• Using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming to produce high quality, maintainable code
• Working with wider assurance function to ensure DR / BCP design, and testing procedures are well established and performant
• General security design and architecture knowledge
• VMWare, VSphere, VCentre API
• NetAPP SDK API
• Solaris OVM

To be considered for this role, please apply online now with your up to date CV.