DevOps Engineer

Company: Qualient Technology Solutions UK Limited
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Location: Reading
Job Description:

  • Design and implement automated build and deployment solution for Java based micro service
  • applications utilizing Atlassian Jira/Gillam/Jenkins/Artifactory/Ansible and Terraform
  • Ensuring that the team and client understand operational requirements, and take a shared
  • responsibility for designing and implementing infrastructure for delivering and running software
  • services
  • Serve as key liaison between management, technical development/QA teams and Operations
  • Discover and capitalize on automation opportunities that provide business value
  • Experienced with large-scale CI/CD implementations and source code implementations
  • Involve in troubleshooting activities to solve technical challenges
  • Monitor progress on projects and provides technical direction as needed
  • Develop effective working relationships with development teams both internal to HMRC and with
  • Third Party suppliers
  • Familiar working within an Agile working environment
  • Develop and maintain lightweight systems documentation
  • Mentor junior team members
  • Experience with Enterprise Jenkins to create reusable pipelines across projects
  • Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard network protocols and security hardening.
  • Proven experience using AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as Ec2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API
  • In-depth knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.) Mandatory
  • experience in creating automation framework using Ansible
  • Strong in one or two Scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell
  • Knowledge of SCM branch strategies using Git
  • Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools (such as ReadyApi, Cucumber etc.)
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Preferably
  • EKS)
  • Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in AWS cloud environment across multiple
  • Experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms and
  • application stacks
  • Experience in defining quality gates (integrating SonarQube Static Code analysis, running Regression
  • suites, etc.) In the delivery pipeline
  • Understanding and experience with a variety of deployment approaches
  • Knowledge of development concepts (REST, JSON, YML etc.)
  • Proficient with defect/issue tracking tools such as JIRA
  • Knowledge of Hashicorp Packer for AMI creation and Hashicorp Vault for secrets are desirable
  • Knowledge of Queues (IBM MQ and RabbitMQ) and monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, AppDynamics)
  • are preferable
  • Passion for and ability to work with software development teams releasing production-ready
  • Willingness to take ownership, be held accountable and achieve a good outcome for all
  • stakeholders through effective collaboration
  • Eagerness to learn enough new tools or tricks required to get the job done

Strong written and verbal communications with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels

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Posted: April 1st, 2026