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Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer - Azure - Kubernetes - Terraform
Location: Leeds 2 days on-site per week
Salary/Rate: £594 per day
Start Date: 22/04/2024
Job Type: Contract Inside IR35

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading Data Analytics clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer with excellent Azure, Kubernetes and Terraforms experience to join their team on a contract until the end of the year.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

* You will be responsible for managing a diverse range of software projects and activities and supporting product delivery for our Business Services software development teams.
* Delivery of resilient application stacks via "Infrastructure as Code" and other DevOps practices
* Monitoring and on-going support of critical, high revenue business applications
* Diagnosis and resolution of complex system and application issues
* Working with diverse technical and non-technical teams, including Development, QA, IT Operations, Customer Operations and Project Management teams
* Write and maintain systems/application documentation for technical and non-technical
* Setting up and provisioning of new cloud based environments

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

* Professional experience of working within the public cloud - Primarily Azure and AWS beneficial
* Use of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
* Continuous Integration/Delivery Tools such as - Gitlab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
* Coding and Scripting experience such as - PowerShell, Bash, Python or equivalent
* Configuration management tools such as - Ansible, Puppet, Chef or equivalents
* Hands-on experience of Linux Servers, including support and troubleshooting
* Experience working with containerised workloads such as Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
* Previous analytic and troubleshooting experience is required
* Cloud architecture and system design to solve key business problems and facilitate team goals.
* Experience migrating application from on-premises to public cloud.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

* System and application monitoring such as - Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
* Familiarity with Log Management tools such as - Elastic Stack, Graylog or Splunk
* Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL, MS SQL Server or similar
* Use of Secret Management services such as - Hashicorp Vault
* Knowledge of change control and associated procedures.
* Hands-on experience performing application static/dynamic security and penetration assessment with tools such as - SonarQube, CheckMarx, AppScan, BurpSuite, OWASP ZAP Proxy, WebInspect, Fortify, Veracode, Nessus etc.
* Familiarity with different types of security vulnerabilities and tools for countermeasure
* Experience with any high-level programming language.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Not with standing any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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