DevOps Engineer (x2) at DWP, Leeds/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

PSR are currently looking for two experienced Digital DevOps Engineers to join DWP on a 6 month contract. 

As a DevOps Engineer, you will: 

• Be responsible for Operational management of Linux servers, delivering a complex web application stack; building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so; testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems; and supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment. 

You’ll have:

• An understanding of common web application architectures.
• Experience in configuring and managing Linux servers for serving a dynamic website.
• Experience in debugging a complex multi-server service. Scripting or basic programming skills. Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
• A strong technical foundation in build, release and environments. Passion for and ability to design and support robust build, deployment and configuration management systems for multi-tier Java J2EE _ .Net applications.
• Experience using: installation and management of open source monitoring tools; configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef; deploying and configuring machines in a Cloud environment (EC2, Google App Engine etc.)
• Application deployment strategies and continuous integration; Networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS); Virtualization systems (VMWare, Xen, etc);
• Operations team experience; administering application servers, servlet containers, and web servers (WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Nginx, Mongrel, Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTP server, etc); integration tools (Jenkins, Travis CL, Go);