DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer 12 Month FTC Conversion to Perm Opportunity

3 Days on site in Newcastle

Relocation is funded by Nology (up to £1,500)

2 salary bands depending on experience- With 23 days holiday & company pension.

SC Eligibility is needed

This role sits with our sister company, Nology, which is an award winning consultancy that creates and finds great talent for organisations, for long-term opportunities. We also contract with clients, so our people work on client projects as Nology consultants.

Role Description:

Nology are looking for DevOps Engineers with experience designing, automating and supporting cloud-native platforms and delivery pipelines. Strong expertise in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers, cloud platforms and operational automation, working closely with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable and resilient technology solutions.

Core Responsibilities

• Work within multidisciplinary DevOps, Platform Engineering and Agile delivery teams to provision, maintain and optimise environments that support software development, testing and production operations.
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build, test, deployment and release processes.
• Configure and support tooling including GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Nexus and security, resilience and performance testing platforms.
• Develop automation solutions to improve deployment reliability, reduce manual effort and increase delivery velocity.
• Provision and manage cloud-native infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles and tooling.
• Automate the integration of applications, services and platforms through APIs, event-driven architectures and serverless technologies.
• Support environment management, release management, configuration management and operational readiness activities.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers, Architects, Test Engineers and Product Teams to support end-to-end delivery.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, observability and alerting solutions to support operational excellence.

Core Skills & Experience

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Strong CI/CD knowledge with hands-on experience using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or AWS CodeBuild
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Bicep)
• Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker Compose
• Scripting and automation using Python, Node.js, TypeScript, Bash or PowerShell
• Source control and branching strategies using Git
• Monitoring, logging and observability tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk)
• Security, vulnerability management and DevSecOps practices
• Linux and/or Windows server administration

Additionally, for the higher level of experience, someone who provides technical leadership across DevOps and platform engineering activities, shaping engineering practices, mentoring teams and advising stakeholders on cloud, automation and delivery strategy.

• Lead DevOps and Platform Engineering activities across products, programmes or delivery teams
• Define and promote DevOps, automation and cloud engineering best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on cloud architecture, operational resilience and deployment strategies.
• Mentor, coach and support the development of engineers within the wider team.
• Influence stakeholders and delivery teams on tooling, engineering standards and platform strategy.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, incident management and root cause analysis activities.
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering principles across the organisation.

Unfortunately there is no sponsorship offered for this role, please apply with your up to date CV