We are AMS. We are a global total workforce solutions firm; we enable organisations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, re-shaping, and optimising workforces. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings; we act as an extension of our clients' recruitment team and provide professional interim and temporary resources.
Our investment banking client has been present in the UK for more than 150 years, they're a long-term partner to British business. Today, the Group is formed of 10 divisions and employs 9,300 staff based in 21 core locations right across the country. Their role is simply stated: help clients achieve their goals by combining local know-how and global reach. In so doing, they seek to make a positive, sustainable contribution to both the UK economy and society.
On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a DevOps Technical Lead for an 12 month contract based in London with remote work available.
Purpose of the Role:
As the DevOps Technical Specialist you will be part of a multi-disciplined team defining and building solutions to automate day to day processes with a view of providing more efficient platforms for users. You will help drive improvements to processes and help design automated enhancements with a view of continual improvement. The role is centred on an agile DevOps mind-set and requires a wide range of technical skills.
Responsibilities of the role:
As a DevOps Technical Lead you will be responsible for:
• Providing multi-disciplined technical support as part of a team, and have practical knowledge of performance and capacity management from an application, database and network perspective as well as strong aptitude for automation.
• Work to a set of prioritised tasks ensuring regular updates ensuring the target solution remains the key focus.
• Understand phased delivery to ensure work is completed to a defined specification and schedule.
• Help identify efficiencies in processes and contribute to their automation.
• Thoroughly test automated processes ensuring they are robust and meet requirements.
• Contribute to medium and high scale technical projects by contributing to architecture review and design, upgrading and migrating application systems to new platforms.
• Provide feedback and propose solutions to management on performance, capacity and design issues.
• Document designs and architectures and distribute minutes and meeting actions.
What we require from the candidate:
• A Strong DevOps mind-set and be prepared to work across both dev and production teams with a view of automation and self-service platforms.
• Provide multi-disciplined technical support.
• Expert knowledge in Jenkins and TeamCity, both as an admin and a user.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Product owner experience (user engagement, define roadmap, collect user requirements, define tasks, etc)
• Strong automation mindset.
• Experience of automated test and release cycles and server automation tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Git and integration with security vaults.
• Expert knowledge in CI/CD, Jenkins in particular, with good infrastructure experience in both building the platform as well as creating and configuring pipelines as a user.
Next steps
If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.
This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.
AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business
