Devops Engineer - Oxford - AWS

DevOps Engineer - Oxford - AWS

Square one are looking for a DevOps Engineer to come on board for a 6 month contract based in Oxford.

Role Description

The DevOps team will work on Cloud deployment design, implementation, automation and troubleshooting, as well as being responsible for the maintenance and support of some internal tools. We are in the process of recruiting a significant number of technical resources to augment our existing technology teams across the infrastructure space.

We need a highly-motivated self-starter who will be required to perform the following specific tasks:

- Improve the automation and self-healing of our current Cloud deployments
- Work on a proof of concept project for a critical application that is migrating to the Cloud soon
- Upgrade some of our local tools to their latest releases -- at this time an upgrade to a local Jira and Confluence system is planned

Additionally, as the DevOps team responds to the need of the Business additional projects may be added to the work pipeline at any time, in which case the successful candidate will work as one of the team and assist those new projects in any way that the team can. They will also need to work closely with the relevant development teams to ensure that this takes place.

Required Skills

- Amazon Web Services - Certified Architect/SysOps preferred
- Linux and RedHat Enterprise Linux
- Network Security concepts
- Automated deployments via CloudFormation and Puppet
- Troubleshooting and support of large enterprise applications
- Knowledge of Oracle deployments in the Cloud would be a distinct advantage
- Typically possess 7+ years of IT experience (at least 2 years in the AWS arena)

Day-to-Day Expectation/Deliverables
1. Identify areas of improvement in both automation and self-healing
2. Plan, deliver and document the above improvements
3. Assist the design and delivery of a specific proof-of-concept Cloud migration
4. Work with the relevant application development teams on new, approved Cloud projects
5. Deploy later versions of internal tools as per local requirements
6. Support multiple migration project migrations and ongoing release activities

This is a 6 month contract role based in Oxford looking to start as early as 23rd February 2015.

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to years of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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