DevOps Engineer

i2 Group a Harris Computer company are currently recruiting for a DevOps Engineer on a permanent fulltime remoteworking basis. Whilst the position is remote there is a requirement to visit the i2 office in Cambridge UK when there is a business need to do so (circa 2 days per week).

Were seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with the ambition and flexibility to join our small team and help our customers to achieve their goals. The team integrate development and operations to enhance collaboration automate workflows and accelerate delivery cycles enabling selfservice for development teams and fostering a culture of cloud excellence.

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in enhancing i2s products and services which are used around the world by national security law enforcement military and commercial organisations. If youre passionate about fostering a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility and youre driven to make a difference we encourage you to apply.

You will be responsible for improvements around Developer autonomy automation and collaboration often focusing on containerized deployments. You will be accountable for maintaining the reliability scalability and security of applications and services across various platforms overseeing the implementation of best practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Position & Responsibilities

In performing this role your core duties and responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:

• Automating AWS infrastructure tasks using scripting and configuration management tools e.g. CDK and CloudFormation
• Implementing deployment architectures
• Troubleshooting and resolving deployment environment issues
• Collaborating with development teams to deploy and manage applications
• Maintain and improve our build system for automated building and publishing of our products
• Ensuring security and compliance across environments

What we are looking for

Essential criteria:

• Bachelors degree in software engineering or related discipline and experience
• At least three years deploying and maintaining production AWS environments
• Solid understanding of operational excellence reliability performance SOC 2 compliance security and cost optimization
• Comfortable influencing our business in designing and implementing an AWSdeployed production environment
• Proven experience of Linux and ability to diagnose issues
• Proficient with source control and peer review
• Solid understanding of Docker principles and experience in building productiongrade Docker images
• Using Python and bash scripting for automation
• Experience in designing building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as CircleCI Jenkins Travis CI GitHub Actions or similar
• Proven troubleshooting and problem solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills: must be able to cooperate and work effectively with others and to gather information as required
• Demonstrable ability to work on several projects simultaneously balancing priorities according to requirements
• Preparedness to undergo national Security Check vetting once in the role

Preferred (but not essential)

• AWS Certification in one or more disciplines especially related to DevOps or Cloud architecture

Note: If travel is to be a regular requirement of the position then please indicate an indication of the number of overnights to be expected per week / month.

About i2

Our intelligence analysis software tools help analysts transform data realtime enabling customers to better leverage data and to detect disrupt and defeat sophisticated threats. Customers are better able to track critical missions across law enforcement fraud and financial crime military defense and national security.https://i2group

As a Harris Computer company we strive to create a respectful and united environment where all members of our globally diverse community are empowered and have equitable opportunities to succeed.

Benefits

Harris offer an extremely competitive UK employee benefits programme. 5 Personal Days leave entitlement are granted over and above the standard 25 days holiday and bank holidays. Harris also offers all UK employees an annual Lifestyle Reward amounting 325 per annum/pro rata.

Supporting your application

Our recruitment process will comprise of interviews and at times a written exercise an assessment day and/or a presentation. As an equal opportunities employer we want to make sure we do all we can to make this a positive experience for you. If your application is progressed please make us aware of any adjustments or additional support we can provide you with.