Nicholas Howard are delighted to be recruiting for a Lead DevSecOps Engineer.

Are you passionate about integrating cutting-edge technologies while ensuring robust security measures? We’re seeking talented individuals at all levels to join our client’s dynamic team as DevSecOps Engineers, with a particular emphasis on Infrastructure Engineering expertise.

You’ll need to have an understanding of Windows and Linux systems and DevSecOps principles and experience of working within a multi-disciplined team. Knowledge and understanding of core software tools, methods, and frameworks to reliably integrate and deploy, integrate, and test features into environments to ensure optimum outcomes for our customers. Additionally, we’re looking for candidates with hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, including expertise in areas such as cloud architecture, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and system performance optimization to support seamless integration and testing processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, deploy and manage a broad set of IT Infrastructure aligning to customer needs and requirements, while leveraging infrastructure engineering best practices to maintain system reliability and scalability with a focus on automation and repeatability.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripts and integrate those with CI/CD pipelines and a wider ecosystem of tools, prioritising automation to streamline deployments.
• Provide full end to end systems lifecycle management covering architecture, design, deployment and support through to decommissioning and migration.
• Support the integration and delivery of large and complex solutions into a wider system-of-systems, ensuring infrastructure components are robust and interoperable.
• Opportunities to experience the cloud by undertaking deployments in Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments, addressing potential constraints while optimizing infrastructure performance and security.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Advanced understanding of DevSecOps. The ability to work within an agile environment and delivering using Scrum and Sprints utilising tools such as Jira and Confluence to help planning and collaboration.
• Expert in Windows and Linux systems administration (Active Directory etc.).
• Expert in Virtualisation technologies and concepts – VMware vsphere, ARIA Ops performance monitoring, software defined networking – NSX.
• Advanced understanding of Web proxy servers and configuration – Squid.
• Experience of Automation technologies Terraform and Ansible for complex builds, Packer.
• Experience of CI/CD pipeline builds – Jenkins.
• Understanding of Git/Bitbucket/GitLab integration, coding and branching strategies.
• Proficient in the use and administration of Containerisation technologies – Kubernetes, Docker.
• Proficient in Powershell, bash scripting.
• Proficient in Python.
• Proficient in the use of Networking skills – IPv4 addressing and routing.
• Experience of Logging and monitoring using Zabbix and Splunk.
• Experience of Cloud and AWS concepts and technologies.

Desired Skills:

• Can support maturation of automated CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments.
• Understanding of IaC and using this to deploy and integrate services on Cloud.
• Hands on experience in using and integrating with AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda.
• Experience or understanding integrating hybrid-cloud application deployments.
• Understanding of CloudTrail to debug and diagnose integration issues.

Please note that candidates must hold or be able to obtain enhanced DV security clearance for this role. 

Should you wish to be considered for this position, please apply below.