DEV Container Engineer (Docker and Kubernetes) contract

GCS Ltd

DEV Container Engineer (Docker and Kubernetes) Needed – 6 month Contract – Fully remote

525 a day

Key tasks

• Assisting with issue triage, ensuring users are responded to and kept informed of progress
• Ability to work independently, analysing each issue as it is presented in order to effectively route to the correct teams for resolution
• Dev Container issue analysis and remediation, including assisting with creating new Dev Containers for use within WSL
• Dev Container engineering work, including updating the base image to support new tools and technologies required by developers
• Working with developers to understand their container requirements, engineering solutions to support their workloads, helping to accelerate the uptake of containerisation at LSEG

End user computer technical skills

• Level 2 desktop troubleshooting) for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu operating systems.
• Knowledge of End User Computing architecture (including virtual and physical devices, modern management technologies and zero trust principles)
• Privilege management software application
• Understanding of software installation via standard channels
• Experience with Linux/WSL
• General awareness of developer workflows and tooling, including best practice and general industry trends

Container developments skills

• Experience with the design and development of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, and being able to apply this knowledge to assist others undertaking similar tasks
• Work with other teams to create portable packages that contain bundled code,tools,libraries
• Owning and maintaining a catalogue of container build images, with differing target programming languages, for use by developers, optimising for security and performance
• Support of base images, being able to identify problems and performing routine updates (e.g. certificate changes, configuration changes) where necessary
• Develop CI/CD pipelines, particularly to validate changes to container build definition/base image before rollout
• Implement centralised logging solutions of containerized environments, allowing them to be used within the parameters set by Cyber
• Contribute to development of container strategies and best practices

Required qualifications

• Knowledge of Container cluster architecture
• 3+ years of experience with container technologies (Docker, WSL, Kubernetes) for Linux and Windows
• Good understanding of and experience with creating and maintaining Devcontainers
• Awareness of container procurement, secure pipeline scanning and best practice
• Good understanding of and experience in Programming languages (Python, Java, Powershell ,C )
• Strong knowledge with cloud platforms

GCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.