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Description

DevOps Engineer

Skills Required:
- Python, Ansible, Jenkins, Bash, Powershell

Contract Details:
- Duration: 12 month contracts
- Rate: Circa £600 a day
- Location: Corsham - Hybrid
- Clearance: SC Clearance required

Role Overview:
You will join a consultancy delivering digital transformation to the MoD. The role will see you support the technical team responsible for the design, development, documentation, building and validation of infrastructure automation components which form part of the NSoIT(D) Platform. These automation components are primarily developed using Python3 (Low level automation), Ansible (Deployment), Jenkins (Configuration generation and build pipelines) and Bash (Linux) / PowerShell (Windows Server) with a focus on hardware components, specifically their various features, services, and configurations, as well as interactions with external REST/SOAP APIs and services.

Key Responsibilities:
- Apply complex problem solving to "reverse engineer" applications, designs and manual build instructions to create zero touch automation packages that are parameterised, dynamic and able to repeatedly and reliably deploy against these designs. Often these applications are legacy or were created without automation in mind.
- Create production quality code following industry standard best practices as well as internal policies and procedures; utilise Version Control mechanisms such as GIT and BitBucket for submitting development code; peer review other team members' code modules.
- Production and review of all levels of design artefacts.
- Support wider NSoIT(D) system testing activities.
- Work with Service Management to resolve issues.
- Work within the Atlassian Suite for tasking/scheduling (JIRA) and documentation (Confluence).

Essential Skills & Qualifications:
In order to deliver this service it is essential that individuals have:

- At least 12 months' demonstrable hands-on experience within the last 3 years of:
- Creating complex Python3 automation Classes for production systems
- Using configuration management tools e.g., Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- Use of scripting languages e.g., Bash and PowerShell for in OS automation
- Automated deployment of server network storage technologies across multiple vendors
- Building or supporting large infrastructure environments
- Troubleshooting hardware or software component failure
- Working as part of an Agile development team

- Demonstrable experience with advanced Python3 and PowerShell coding features e.g., Workflows Desired State Configuration (DSC), Bare Metal Deployment

Professional Certifications Required:
At least one of the following professional certifications that have been obtained within the last five years:

1. Networking certification – CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) or similar
2. Virtualisation certification – VMware VCP (VMware vCenter Certified Professional) or similar
3. Linux certification – RHCA or RHCE

Formal Software Development Certification: OCA (Oracle Certified Associate) or similar