Daintta are a rapidly growing, values-driven team of specialists who work with government clients across Cyber Security, National Security, Law Enforcement and Telecommunications. We are seeking a talented and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our team and contribute to our mission of protecting the UK through data-driven insights and solutions. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with our public sector clients and project teams to design, develop, and implement DevOps solutions that meet our clients’ requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with clients to understand their DevOps engineering needs and objectives
- Design, develop, and implement high-quality solutions for cloud and on premise environments
- Utilise your expertise to architect robust and scalable systems with network and cyber security best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to gather project requirements, analyse feasibility, and provide technical recommendations
- Stay up to date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in DevOps engineering and share your knowledge with the team
- Collaborate with project managers to ensure successful project delivery within the defined timelines and budget
- Accurately delivering high quality work to agreed timelines, including taking the initiative and knowing how to jump straight in
- Supporting client engagements, including pitches and presentations
- Helping to support & grow Daintta by actively inputting into the company strategy and helping to shape our future
- Representing us and our core values: Transparent, Fair and Daring
The role requires the following key skills / knowledge, non-exhaustively:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field
• Professional experience as DevOps engineer, preferably in a consultancy or industry setting
• Experience with working with working with one or more Cloud service providers – AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience developing cloud solutions that can be ported to on premise
• Good understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles, and experience in practical application (e.g. provisioning/deployment via Ansible, Terraform, Helm)
• Experience building solutions with Network Security considerations
• Good understanding of networking concepts such as Private VPCs, Security Groups, NAT Gateways
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
• Familiarity with software development methodologies, such as Agile or Scrum. In particular iterative approaches to software development in conjunction with the client
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to find innovative solutions to complex technical challenges
• Excellent communication and presentation skills or Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with clients and team members
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly in fast-paced environments
• A passion for delivering high quality solutions that meet client expectations
• Familiarity with Software Engineering practices and principles, such as CI/CD pipelines for verifying, building, testing and pushing deployment artefacts
• Experience in OCI containerisation (e.g. Docker) and associated orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Experience in setting up centralised logging and monitoring of deployed infrastructure
• Knowledge of infrastructure security principles and best practices
Security Clearance
Due to the nature of this position, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, you must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/...