Senior DevOps Engineer - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 12 Months

Contracting Authority: DWP

Location: Hybrid/Birmingham/Manchester/Leeds/Newcastle/Blackpool

Imagine having a talent that could benefit someone you’ve never met and solve problems you didn’t even know existed. Well, you do, and you can. And we’re here to help you do just that. At PSR we are the go-to place for talented contractors and temps for a rich variety of public sector roles. 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer your main responsibilities would be: 

• Responsible for contributing to providing advice and guidance to others in the organisation.
• Responsible for large blocks of work, employees in varied disciplines and with a wide span of leadership, breaking down user stories into tasks.
• Design and manage the tactics for building reusable libraries, templates and services and own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines within your Functional and Professional Communities.
• Lead a DevOps Engineering team providing support, technical leadership and guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices. This will include coaching, mentoring and supporting your team, taking responsibility for their decision-making and their professional development.
• Communicate on a regular basis with a wide range of organisations and contacts internally and or externally, contributing to set strategic direction for DevOps teams and wider Engineering community.
• Lead the sharing of knowledge, documentation and good practice with the wider Engineering community.
• Work closely with senior officers, providing advice and suggesting courses of action, provide coaching, mentoring and support to Software and DevOps Engineer colleagues and peers. 

Essential Skillsets:

• Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and IT partners on release scheduling and communication of progress.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment: GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose.
• Clustering and load balancing: haproxy, traefik, nginx, service mesh (linkerd, istio, consul connect).
• Defines and designs the integration build. Able to co-ordinate build activities and understands how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
• Collaborates with others when necessary to review specifications and uses these agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document programmes or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Has a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in their role and understands how these fit into the wider technical landscape. Understands the limitations of digital technology. 

If this Senior DevOps Engineer - Inside IR35 sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now. akanksha.rai@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk 

"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."