Senior DevOps Engineer

Due to the nature of the client engagements, every employee needs to be able to achieve Security Clearance.

This means that you need to have the right to take up employment within the UK, do not have or require any visa to work, and have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years without any gap(s) totalling more than 6 months.

As an employer we believe in facilitating a flexible work pattern whilst taking into consideration operational requirements, client and individual needs. We are proud of our hybrid work pattern that typically sees employees in the office for a minimum of 2 days per week.

You should be able to easily commute to our Manchester office. For some roles/projects, travel to the clients offices will be required and the frequency is often determined by the client.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are integral to the success of 6point6. We welcome applicants with different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds, and are proud to have an organisational culture where employees can bring their authentic selves to work.

Key responsibilities in this role include:

• Manage the devops output of colleagues and projects as a DevOps Lead
• Be involved in setting DevOps standards and technical direction
• Support and Train junior colleagues within your projects and the wider DevOps department
• Develop and operate cloud-based platforms / infrastructure (hosted on AWS)
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code technical solutions (via kube/helm & terraform)
• Apply DevOps best practices of automation, TDD and tooling to CI/CD pipelines (via Drone CI/CD)
• Collectively maintaining team development and operational documentation
  (via Operational Runbook handbooks and Wiki Documentation)
• Work as in a cross-discipline agile development team (managed via Scrum Agile processes)
• Optional: Software development as part of a cross-disciplined team (Java)
• Optional: Direct line management of a junior engineer, and help them develop their career and capabilities
• Optional: Scrum master qualifications or experience, help project management by running standups and other agile ceremonies

Requirements

You will have:

• Working knowledge of AWS cloud platform
  (preferably AWS’s cli, and it’s S3, Glue, VPC, Athena, MSK services)
• Working experience with modern CI pipelines
  (preferably Drone CI/CD Pipelines)
• Knowledge of (IaC) Infrastructure as Code Systems
  (preferably Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform)
• Experience developing tooling with at least one common scripting language
  (preferably Bash and/or Python scripting)
• Experience working in an Agile Delivery Team, building SRE systems
  (preferability experience of Scrum/Kanban methodologies)
• Knowledge of foundational DevOps technologies such as Version C
• Optional/Desired: Working knowledge of a operating kafka cluster
  (preferably on MSK AWS platform)ontrol (Git), Linux, Containerization (Docker), HTTP, and IP networking
• Optional: Experience developing software with at least one common programming language (preferably Java and/or Python)
• Optional: Knowledge of foundational Software Engineering technologies such as TDD (Cucumber), Unit Testing (JUnit), Linting, and Software Frameworks (Spring)