DevOps Engineer -Crewe / Hybrid Working

My Top Track 100 client is looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer to support their growing, complex application estate.  The successful candidate will be instrumental in supporting the deployment, configuration, scaling and monitoring of the application portfolio.  This role will ideally be a Hybrid with 2-3 days on site.

Essential Skills/Experience

Minimum of 2 years of commercial DevOps Engineer experience

A strong working knowledge of AWS, and/or current certification on AWS cloud such as

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

A background in automating application deployment and configuration management

In-depth experience of CI tools – such as Gitlab/Bamboo etc

Experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK

Knowledge of GIT

In-depth experience maintaining database servers - including Aurora, Cassandra, Elasticache (Redis), Postgres, Redshift etc.

Knowledge of Java ecosystem - how applications are deployed, and configuration of servlet containers

Strong Linux Sysadmin skills

Familiarity with Python application deployment - WSGI, PIP, VirtualEnv

Scripting Skills - Bash, Python

Good knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes / Openshift etc

Good knowledge of internet communication concepts and protocols - TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP

An awareness of security considerations in web application deployment

Monitoring / Logging e.g. ELK, Datadog, Prometheus / Grafana etc