Senior DEVOPS Engineer

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The Opportunity

The Leonardo Cyber Security Division is looking to recruit Senior DevOps Engineers to join its engineering team with responsibility for providing a bridge between software development, testing, infrastructure, operations and system administrators to facilitate efficient, continuous and high-quality software delivery.
The processes and tooling implemented by the Software/DevOps Engineer team will enable source code and associated artefacts to be installed and configured across environments. The Software/DevOps Engineer will typically combine the skills of software coding and/or scripting and process reengineering with exemplary team working and communication skills. The Software/DevOps Engineer should have a good breadth of knowledge across the disciplines of software development and how software is deployed.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience of performing a DevOps role, and preferably working in a secure environment. You will possess a strong all round technical ability with an excellent working knowledge of platform capability area for Cloud / Hybrid and on premise network and systems infrastructure technologies. An awareness of cyber security capabilities is advantageous. You will need to have a good working knowledge of building, implementing and maintaining systems with complex architectures on client site, with on-going proactive operational support, working closely with key stakeholders and end users. Working within a specialist skilled engineering team providing 1st to 3rd line support to the client.

These roles demand excellent technical skills with the ability to support, maintain and operate systems while conforming to industry best practice and/or Leonardo best practices and technical designs. The role will require excellent team working attributes but also requires the ability to take responsibility and accountability for individual to work independently.

Projects will be from the full systems engineering lifecycle from Concept Exploration through to In-Service Support providing the opportunity to develop your experience while supporting the requirements management, system architecture and design, subsystem design and development, system integration, test and acceptance and specialist technical support.

What you will do

As a DevOps Engineer within the Cyber Division, you will typically be working as part of a larger team including the design, development and testing of secure systems, including but not limited to, Information Management Systems, Command and Control systems, Security Monitoring of IT, IoT and CNI systems and services.
These roles will have the ability to take ownership / implement the DevOps side of the engineering delivery of one or more work packages, including the planning, estimation, execution and progress reporting of own workload and that of other team members.
Key Responsibility Areas
Experience of performing a Principal / Senior systems engineering including network solutions, storage solutions, virtualisation solutions, client/server solutions, Windows and Linux operating systems, and high availability solutions. Installation, Deployment and Configuration of COTS products – automated/scripted wherever possible

Assist in the overall implementation of new software / applications / packing for the Cyber division.
Analyse requirements, design, implement and unit test software code and supporting artefacts using appropriate tools.
As required, lead on software/application development activities.
Plan and undertake installations on development, test, reference and operational environments.
Deliver consistent high-quality software and environmental builds through automation.
Creation and maintenance of automaton frameworks for software and/or environment provisioning and ongoing operation.
Managing and controlling software configuration for projects including the source repository.
Implement and maintain of Continuous Integration (CI) and/or Build pipelines where appropriate.
Understand change control and release management practices.
Assist in data engineering activities (data cleansing, integration, onward data analytics).
Provide application support to existing deployed services.
Contribute to the improvement and efficiency of the Cyber division.

What we are looking for

A good working knowledge and experience of various techniques with a broad scope of skills and experience of mainstream IT infrastructure services and components including: The role requires the candidate to be a full UK National, ideally with a minimum SC clearance , ideally a current DV clearance or willing to obtain DV
Demonstrable experience of performing a similar role.
Working on customer site and Above Secret environment
Good knowledge of Agile methodologies, SCRUM, BDD, TDD.
Excellent knowledge of Ansiable / Terraform / Python
Source control management (Git, Azure DevOps etc).
O/S - Linux, Windows level scripting.
Automation tools for software and/or infrastructure builds PowerShell / Ansible etc). Clear and effective communication skills.
Strong analytical skills.
Aptitude for solving complex/technical problems.
Flexible and adaptable attitude, capable of acquiring new skills.
Objective and logical with an enquiring and creative mind

Highly desirable Microsoft - C#, .NET, SharePoint, SQL.
Data Engineering – experience of one or more: Apache ecosystem, SQL, Python. Jenkins
Web - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, SOAP.
Experience with Secure DevOps within an Agile /SAFe environment.
Containerisation - Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow etc.
Software development capability. Any form of prior development expertise would be beneficial, but the eagerness and desire to learn new technologies would be preferable.

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