DevOps Engineer
Summary
On-site DevOps Engineer in Ancoats, UK, building and running a Kubernetes-based internal developer platform: GKE/OpenShift on GCP, Terraform IaC, Harness and Jenkins CI/CD, Backstage, Dynatrace observability, HashiCorp Vault 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.

