Senior DevOps Specialist for UK Research Funding

16 hours ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom UK Research and Innovation Full time

About the Company:

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the largest public funder of research and innovation in the UK. Our mission is to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation by investing in people, ideas and organisations.

About the Job:

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Specialist to join our team in developing the systems for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. As a key member of our agile development team, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and delivering a robust and performant suite of systems to support the exercise over the next 5 years.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
  • Provide coaching and mentoring across the wider systems team.
  • Make sure deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
  • Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.

Requirements:

  • Experience of securely building infrastructure within the AWS cloud using AWS technologies such as lambda, S3, EC2, ECS, IAM, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Route53, SES, RDS, Elasticache, Autoscaling, Load balancers, VPC, etc.
  • Building and configuring new server platforms and infrastructure, using IaC tools - Terraform (essential), Cloudformation, Ansible.
  • Working experience of databases, such as Oracle/PLSQL, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB).
  • Strong scripting and language skills i.e. Ruby, Bash, Python, JS, Go.
  • Experience of working with Development Teams to deliver optimal continuous integration and continuous deployment strategies such as build and test pipelines, blue green deployments with CI/CD Tools like Codepipeline, Bitbucket Pipelines, Github Actions, Jenkins GitLab, CircleCI, API Gateway etc.
  • Experience of core technologies such as containerization (docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS).

Benefits:

  • A competitive salary of £56,745 per annum.
  • The opportunity to work on a high-profile project that will have a significant impact on the research funding system in the UK.
  • A dynamic and supportive team environment.
  • Ongoing training and development opportunities.


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