DevOps Consultant
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Summary
A DevOps consultant role in Manchester focused on platform engineering: running Kubernetes (OpenShift required, GKE preferred) on GCP with Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines in Harness and Jenkins, a Backstage internal developer platform, Dynatrace observability, Vault-based security, and Istio service mesh.
- Container platforms: Strong hands-on Kubernetes engineering; GKE preferred. OpenShift experience is required.
- Cloud & IaC: Google Cloud Platform experience preferred; strong Terraform and reusable infrastructure automation.
- Delivery engineering: Harness CI/CD and Jenkins; pipeline design, automation, release controls and deployment patterns.
- Developer platform: Backstage and Internal Developer Platform concepts, including self-service and golden paths.
- Observability & SRE: Dynatrace; metrics, telemetry, logs, traces, alerting, SLI/SLO practices and runbook automation.
- Security & controls: HashiCorp Vault, certificate management, IAM/least privilege, platform controls and secure configuration.
- Networking: Istio Service Mesh, ingress/egress, service connectivity, traffic management and network security concepts.
- Engineering practices: GitHub / Git, automation-first mindset, scripting, troubleshooting and production support.