DevOps Engineer – DV cleared (JavaScript, plugins) job in Cheltenham | Salt Recruitment UK

DevOps Engineer – DV cleared (Javascript, plugins) – Telecoms – Cheltenham

Duration: 12 months

Day rate: £500 – £800 (inside IR35)

Start: ASAP

My new client is looking for a DevOps engineer with JavaScript plugins experience. This will be a long term contract with plans to grow the team even further. There will be a requirement to be on site in Cheltenham at least once a week. Must have current DV clearance.

What you’ll do:

• Leading areas of Capability Development, primary withjs, JavaScript, TypeScript.
  • Creating a mixture of backend processing and front end tooling.
• Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data.
• Providing System Design, Documentation and Training.
• Enhancing Elastic Stack and Kubernetes
• Release activities, which may require occasional travel to customer sites.
• Sharing knowledge within the teamand customer teams.
• Ensuring best practices are followed in terms of design and code.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong background in Full Stack Capability Development (4+ years) in JavaScript / React.js
• Experience of working in DevOps team deploying with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Leads large pieces of work: Either by yourself or working with other members of team.
• Adaptable and Flexible Work: Can take on broad range of coding and non-coding tasks (described in’What You’lldo’ section) with frequent visits and work on customer sites.
  • Advocates technologies: Brings most appropriate technologies and practices to project to meet current and future demands.
  • Promotes Learning: Ensure the team, and customers are developing skills.
• Owning customer relationships: Whilst primarily working in the office there will be regular opportunities to engage customers both face to face and via Video Conferencing. You will be responsible for building and owning customer relationships. This includes managing expectations, put the customer first whilst still acting commercially.

You may also have:

• Preferably experience in JavaScript ES6 onwards using js, TypeScript, knowledge of functional components and hooks.
• Experience in other JavaScript Frameworks and other programming languages including Python, Ruby, Bash, Node.js.
• Familiarity with code development and management best practises. The team uses Git and Visual Studio Code.
• Experience in working in DevOps and Agile Teams. The team uses Atlassian Toolsets – Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket.
  • Experience of operating Rancher, OpenShift or OKD to manage and deploy Kubernetes clusters.
  • General knowledge of other Orchestration tools.
• General knowledge of Elastic Stack, which may include:
• Kibana, constructing queries, dashboard or plugin creation.
• Elasticsearch, working with large datasets and use of API’s.
• Logstash, management, configuration, and improvements, extending with Plugins.
• Experience of Linux including: System Administration of Big Data Platforms, System Monitoring, System Patching.
• Knowledge of Data streaming and Message Brokers technologies.