Container Platform and Automation engineer

Location : London

Salary : £90,000 - £110,000 pa

Multiple Clients/Projects; Delivery & PreSales .. 1 week – 2 years, typical 2-3 month engagements.

Flexible working, travel when need to on customer sites. Remote when not on site.

Container Platform and Automation engineer

London / South-East, UK

£90,000 - £110,000 dependant on experience.

Role and responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain production ready enterprise container platforms and underlying infrastructure with good DevOps practice and automations tools
• Work with collaboration with customers to design and build platforms to their requirements
• Provide architectural design input and best practice to customer designs
• Contribute to blueprints for good platform design

Education and experience required:

• Master’s degree in computer science or related IT field is preferred

• 5+ years’ experience in private/public cloud platforms
• Relevant experience with at least one enterprise container platform (e.g. Rancher, OpenShift, Docker EE, Azure AKS)
• Kubernetes certified admin/developer (or container platform vendor cert) preferred

Knowledge, skills and abilities required:

Essential:

• Experience creating container-based solutions on an enterprise container platform (e.g. Rancher, OpenShift, Docker EE, Azure AKS)
• Proficiency with Kubernetes
• Good understanding of the CNCF landscape
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages

• The ability to define solution architectures as code (primarily Terraform & Ansible)
• Good general infrastructure engineering skills
• Good general consulting skills
• Ability to lead on customer projects

Desirable:

• Experience with:
  • Docker image builds
  • Repository management (Docker & Helm based)
  • Logging, monitoring and alerting
  • Kubernetes cluster networking implementation
  • Kubernetes cluster storage implementation
  • Kubernetes security
  • Kubernetes Ingress and load balancing
• Familiarity with CICD and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with identity management basics
• Familiarity with HA and DR basics

• Familiarity with elastic provisioning and scaling
• Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure
• Experience within an Agile team / of Agile team methodologies

If you have the skills appropriate for this position, please do apply now.