DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer 12 Month FTC Conversion to Perm Opportunity3 Days on site in NewcastleRelocation is funded by Nology (up to £1,500)2 salary bands depending on experience- With 23 days holiday & company pension.This role sits with our sister company, Nology, which is an academy winning consultancy that creates and finds great talent for organisations, for long-term opportunities. We also contract with clients, so our people work on client projects as Nology
consultants.Role Description:

Nology are looking for DevOps Engineers with experience designing, automating and supporting cloud-native platforms and delivery pipelines. Strong expertise in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers, cloud platforms and operational automation, working closely with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable and resilient technology solutions.

Core Responsibilities

• Work within multidisciplinary DevOps, Platform Engineering and Agile delivery teams to provision, maintain and optimise environments that support software development, testing and production operations.
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build, test, deployment and release processes.
• Configure and support tooling including GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Nexus and security, resilience and performance testing platforms.
• Develop automation solutions to improve deployment reliability, reduce manual effort and increase delivery velocity.
• Provision and manage cloud-native infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles and tooling.
• Automate the integration of applications, services and platforms through APIs, event-driven architectures and serverless technologies.
• Support environment management, release management, configuration management and operational readiness activities.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers, Architects, Test Engineers and Product Teams to support end-to-end delivery.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, observability and alerting solutions to support operational excellence.

Core Skills & Experience

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Strong CI/CD knowledge with hands-on experience using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or AWS CodeBuild
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Bicep)
• Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker Compose
• Scripting and automation using Python, Node.js, TypeScript, Bash or PowerShell
• Source control and branching strategies using Git
• Monitoring, logging and observability tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk)