Principal DevOps Engineer

Croydon
1 week ago
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Job Title: Principal DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote
Clearance Required: Active SC
Rate: £600 per day - Umbrella Only

Job Description:
'You will require additional vetting for this position, which means the process can take longer than the usual onboarding process with Capgemini. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries.'

You will be providing technical leadership to a small cross-functional spike team where you will:

Translate architectural designs to task backlogs; selecting which tasks require technical spikes to derisk these and the optimal order for these to be delivered
Form hypotheses on the technical approaches to diverse problems
Prove/Disprove those hypotheses by defining and delivering experimental spikes (involving use of cloud native services and bespoke code)
Define technical tasks and estimate implementation effort
Ultimately, present enough evidence to allow decisions on the future approach of product teams to be data driven.
As Principal Engineer, you will need to be able to:

Code cleanly and with maintainability in mind.
Champion agile best practices and Continuous Delivery.
Work as part of a delivery team building innovative software.
Mentor colleagues and other developers.
Collaborate with QAs and Bas.
Build strong relationships architects.
Learn something new everyday.
Facilitate problem solving and lead a team to make them reality.
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a role title.
Who you are:
An enthusiastic experienced principal engineer with the aptitude to learn about the Policing and Home Office domain and enable and inspire diverse delivery teams through technical leadership.

T-shaped:
Rounded senior developer, comfortable doing jobs outside their normal scope and able to get in and support the team in a hands-on way.
Can help anywhere on team, either implementing (covering holidays, peaks etc.) or merely understanding other team members to help them.
Open-minded quick learner - willing and able to pick up new things, potentially even legacy techs.
Be very comfortable with back-end dev in the java platform and test via Bruno.
Experience in AWS native services (Lambda etc.) is highly desirable
Be experienced in agile software development using product centric delivery.
Hands on experience of technical planning, task breakdown, story estimation and prioritisation
Hands on experience with Build tools and CI and CD tools and approaches
From a development approach, you will have hands-on experience of agile, test driven development (TDD), pair programming / collaborative development, continuous delivery.
Key Skills:
Backend:

Java / Spring Microservices on AWS Kubernetes building REST API's
Hibernate
Debezium
SNS / SQS or other messaging technology
AWS RDS Postgres
AWS Open Search
AWS API Gateway
Jenkins
GIT Version Control
Front End:

Docker
REACT
GDS Design Kit
Node.JS
Storybook

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