Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

at  Digi2al Limited

Digi2al is a full service digital partner to our clients, working with them throughout each project lifecycle. We cover diverse problems including data science, artificial intelligence, digital first and digital by default.
We’re experts in user research and experience, service design, front and back-end development, secure continuous deployment on cloud, DevOps and more. From discovering user needs and designing/prototyping personalised experiences to helping build contemporary digital services, we provide our clients with the expertise needed to ensure high-quality delivery at every stage. Our specialists are familiar with the breadth of contemporary technology patterns; and our programmes have developed new pattern libraries, design systems and development aspects, many of which are open source. We also support the transition to live running for critical services dealing with millions of transactions every day, including 24/7 support.
Role Overview: As modern technology continues to evolve at an ever-faster rate, the defence sector needs to adapt and change the way it develops and deploys software and machine learning capabilities. Digi2al is looking for Infrastructure Engineers to build platforms and services for customers across defence and enhance our internal capabilities.
We’re looking for someone with a few years of professional experience building, configuring, automating and maintaining server and container infrastructure, along with a healthy appetite to learn and lead. You should have a handful of projects and services under your belt and be looking for a new challenge and purpose in your work. We’re looking for a range of skills and experience, so if you don’t quite have all of the experience listed in the description below do still get in touch.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will have practitioner level experience working with the following technologies and you’ll be able to point to projects where you’ve used them and learned from those experiences:

• Command line configuration, networking, firewalls, hardware, and other services within Linux operating systems.

YOU ALSO HAVE AN AWARENESS AND/OR EXPERIENCE OF HOW TO:

• Configure one or more CI/CD systems including those that support GitOps such as ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Gitlab, etc.
• Use security controls to mitigate security threats within solutions and services.
• Configure networking, firewalls, hardware and other services within Linux operating systems.
• Design, configure (manual and automated - Terraform) and debug managed services within AWS.
• Apply modern networking and technology standards
• Provide infrastructure without Internet-connectivity.
• Assure systems where information security is critical and the frameworks used in such cases: Secure by Design, Cloud Security Principles, JSP604, etc.

TOP 3 QUALITIES NEEDED FOR THIS ROLE

• Willing to be on-site in Portsmouth 2-3 days/week.
• Experienced with Kubernetes.
• Proactive and self-starting, with an ability to learn quickly.
  Experience working with the GOV.UK Service Manual is not essential, but handy.