22 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Birmingham, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design significant components of modern digital service platforms, including automation, build, deployment, and support.
- Build, test, deploy, monitor, debug, and support production services across multiple servers, services, and tools.
- Implement configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, container orchestration, and modern Continuous Delivery processes.
- Produce scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective designs that minimize vendor lock-in.
- Use AWS and Azure cloud platforms to solve business problems and apply best practices across infrastructure and application components.
- Contribute to architecture, estimation, product planning, user story and requirements creation, technical decisions, and MVP advocacy.
- Support live operations by maintaining service availability, security, performance, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Coach and mentor more junior team members and contribute to knowledge-sharing activities.
Requirements
- Significant expertise with multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, automation, and scripting tools.
- Fluency in at least one of PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, or Groovy.
- Demonstrable experience designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and supporting significant platform components in production.
- Experience designing scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective systems and contributing to collaborative technical direction.
- Experience implementing Continuous Delivery processes, using public cloud platforms, applying infrastructure and container orchestration tooling, and using Git.
- Strong team, verbal communication, and written communication skills in multidisciplinary environments.
- Experience debugging complex problems across multiple servers, services, and tools.
- Active Security Clearance is required.
- A related third-level qualification or equivalent, mid-level public cloud certification, cloud-native SaaS/PaaS experience, and experience mentoring junior staff are desirable.
About Kainos
Kainos is a Belfast-headquartered, publicly listed IT services company that designs and delivers digital services and Workday solutions for public, healthcare and commercial clients. Its business includes agile software engineering, cloud and data platforms, systems integration, and a Workday implementation and testing practice (including the Smart automated testing product). Founded in 1986 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Kainos operates across the UK, Europe and North America.