Start date: ASAP
Location, Knutsford, Cheshire (hybrid)
Salary: Up to £367 per day (inside IR35)
Contract: Until the end of Dec 2025
Key Responsibilities:
- Migrate existing applications from Cloudera to Kubernetes-based platforms, with an upgrade to RHEL 8
- Support production deployments and releases following strict runbook and change management practices
- Provide L2/L3 application support within AWS environments, including incident, problem, and change management
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation jobs, and DevOps toolchains
- Develop and support Cloud platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and integration with development and analytics pipelines
- Work across multi-tier infrastructure involving Linux, Windows, RDBMS, JBOSS, SpringBoot, and Microservice Architectures
- Participate in an on-call support rota and proactively manage platform issues and improvements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder communications effectively
- Strong experience in AWS production support (L2/L3)
- CI/CD pipeline management using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Nexus, Sonarqube, TeamCity
- Automation scripting skills with Shell, Python, Chef, or Perl
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Proven experience deploying/configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot applications
- Experience in incident response, release management, and change control in live environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Familiarity with microservices and API integrations
- Knowledge of Active Directory (AD) for authentication and integration
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as AppDynamics, ELK, Kibana, and Splunk
- Understanding of security gates and code quality tools (e.g., SonarQube)
- Experience supporting test environments and resolving infrastructure/application issues
- Background in working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and complex DevOps delivery chains
