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​Dev Ops Engineer

• £550 per day

• Immediate start

• On-going contract

Clearance: Central Government Higher Clearance DV Level (not MOD issued)

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to provide an operational data platform for a key client within our clients Defence and Intelligence portfolio. The role offers fantastic opportunities to gain experience and technical expertise across a wide range of leading edge and bespoke technologies within a high-tempo operational environment. Team members must be pro-active, dependable and able to take ownership of tasks.

Responsibilities

* Incident response to ensure availability of operational services

* Pro-actively maintain and improve the performance of the platform and hosted applications

* Deployment, configuration and testing of software onto the platform

* Identification of improvements and resolution of performance anomalies and system issues

* Carry out routine system administrative tasks such as patching

* Production of Design documents, including Requests for Change (RFC) and Work Instructions (WI)

Mandatory requirements:

* 12 months minimum experience as a Linux and/or Windows System Administrator

* Strong familiarity with the core tools such as the ATLASSIAN suite, SSH, CMD or Powershell

* Able to write scripts using Python, Bash, DOS or powershell

* Root cause analysis and debugging to aid in resolution of functional and performance related defects

* A passion for learning new technologies and innovation

Desirable:

* Scripting - SQL, Python, Bash, DOS, Powershell

* Databases - Oracle, MySQL, Postgres

* Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation

* Experience of automation/configuration management (i.e. Ansible)

* Experience of security protocols such as PKI, TLS etc.

We will endeavor to respond to all applicants, but if you do not receive a response within 5 working days, please consider yourself unsuccessful on this application.

Syntech Recruitment Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this position.

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