DevOps Engineer, Delivery Centre- Newcastle

Agency: Credera Job Function: Consulting Job Subfunction: Technology Consulting Job Description: Would you like to be part of a growing engineering capability in a people-centric organisation? Or perhaps work in an open and collaborative learning environment? Are you passionate about technology, people and developing your coding skills? We have got all this and more. Whatever your aspirations, we’re looking for engineers to be part of an exceptional technology capability, providing dedicated engineering capacity for our clients. At Credera, we work with a range of clients and help them to level-up their engineering capabilities in a partnership model. Through our Delivery Centre, we help them build microservices architectures, develop AI and machine learning capabilities and operate cloud infrastructure. As part of the Delivery Centre team, you’ll collaborate with architects, technology consultants and client stakeholders, giving you a chance to hone your skills across the latest technologies, development and operational practices, and cloud platforms, whilst growing your career. The central hub for this position is in Newcastle, but we welcome applicants from across the North-East. We operate a hybrid working policy with an expectation of 60% in office time. We value collaboration and client impact, so our hybrid model is designed to strike a balance between flexibility, in-person connection, and delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients. Please note: Due to the nature of this role and specific client engagement, any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance. To meet the client's eligibility requirements, applicants must have been resident in the UK for the last five years and must not have spent more than six consecutive months outside the UK during that period.

As a Platform Engineer in Credera’s Delivery Centre capability, you’ll work as part of a close-knit team supporting one of our long-term client partnerships alongside architects, support engineers, and delivery leaders. Building on Credera’s reputation for engineering excellence, you’ll have a chance to learn from a team of experts who can help you develop into a future technical leader. Consultancy to us is about customer delivery first, carried out by technically excellent people with a learning mindset. Whilst working on a long-term engagement, you will have access to a range of training and development opportunities, as well as coaching and mentoring from experienced technologists. You are perceptive, personable, culturally sensitive and demonstrate a high degree of emotional intelligence. To meet our client's needs, you will need to be security clearable. You'll have: - The ability to work collaboratively - A drive for self-improvement and learning new technologies - Demonstrable experience in automating operations tasks with one or more scripting languages - Experience with configuration tools such as GitHub/Jenkins - Experience creating and/or maintaining production software delivery pipelines using common CI/CD tools - Experience working with AWS - Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation) - The ability to deliver defined work packages and tickets to agreed time and quality with limited supervision, following established processes and standards - The ability to plan your own workload, contribute to short-term team planning, and escalate blockers promptly while proposing practical solutions - A structured, methodical approach, applying established methods to identify and help resolve delivery issues and seeking guidance where needed - Associate-level AWS cloud certification - A willingness to support more junior colleagues and take ownership for implementing agreed improvements - You will be required to hold active SC clearance for this role. Desirable skills - Experience automating operations tasks with one or more scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash). -