(SC cleared) Infrastructure Platform Engineer Full Time

Ledbury, Herefordshire
Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited

Daily rate: £685 Inside IR35

Duration: 6months with possible extension

Location: 5 days/w onsite

Clearance: active SC clearance

Methods are looking to hire two SC cleared Infrastructure Platform Engineer with solid experience in PAAS platform engineering, terraform provisioning, network segregation.

Ideal Candidates will demonstrate:

• Experience working across cyber security teams would be beneficial.
• Solid infrastructure design experience for on-prem environments to implement or migrate applications and databases.
• Solid experience in a range of technologies and be able to make assessments as to what is best to be used for the projects and the organization.
• As well as suggest and develop innovative approaches within constrained projects and environments.
• Strong experience in software development change/release management processes and technical governance to fully understand the typical life cycle and maintenance of live systems.
• Ability to work with containerization platforms such as Kubernetes, PKS, Docker; provisioning software including Ansible, Terraform; and application performance analysis and monitoring.
• Experience of functional and non-functional testing, including automated deployment experience of applications and databases.
• Understanding of the government digital service manual and standards across Discovery/Alpha/Beta/Live phases.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS technologies, and the implications of their use compared with bespoke development.
• Being able to provide training, support, and mentoring to the wider business.
• Knowledge of how to ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Worked as part of a system support team managing live systems and triaging & resolving incidents to resolution, including management of known defects and issues.
• Worked as part of a multi-disciplinary project team.
• Experience with Terraform to deploy on-prem infrastructure.
• Experience with automation tools to build and deploy containerized applications.
• Experience implementing effective instrumentation to monitor applications.
• Experience implementing SAST and DAST tooling in deployment pipelines like Trivvy and SonarQube.
• Experience with on-prem DevOps tooling.