DevOps Engineer

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:
As a Senior Platform Engineer (Senior Associate) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading 
with the design of significant components of a modern digital service platform including its
automation, build, deployment and support. It’s a fast-paced environment and you’ll be 
trusted to make sound, reasoned decisions.  You’ll do this whilst learning about new 
technologies and approaches, with talented colleagues that will help you to learn, 
develop and grow.
Your key responsibilities will include:
• Working as part of a team - You’ll work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, 
consulting, product management and security capabilities to build, test and 
deploy software of the highest quality.
• Using technology for positive impact – You’ll ensure the latest technologies are 
employed appropriately to extract maximum user and business benefit. You’ll 
ensure alignment to industry standards and best practices.
• Putting people first - you’ll support your colleagues and facilitate an inclusive
DevOps culture in all that you do.
• Finding your voice – As a respected voice within your team and to our customers, 
you’ll drive conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, 
reliable and performant.
• Supporting services through Live Operation – Getting services into production is just 
the beginning with the fun truly starting when real users start interacting with the 
service you’ve built. You’ll make sure the service is available, secure and 
performant as you strive to continuously improve it.
• Becoming a Role Model – You’ll embody the Kainos values and be the person 
people look up to. You’ll proactively coach and mentor more junior members of 
the team.
• Pushing the boundaries – Through exposure to technology you may develop 
specialisms and choose to pivot your career in a certain direction.
MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including 
working in a multi-disciplinary team is crucial
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate 
issues to other technical people, and sometimes to non-technical people. 
• Significant expertise in:
o Use of multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and 
automation tools.
o Fluency in least one of the following: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, 
Groovy.
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• Expertise in using multiple automation tools and at least one of: Powershell, Bash, 
Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy
• Demonstrable experience in:
o Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring 
and supporting significant components within a modern digital service 
platform in production environments.
o Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective 
and minimise lock-in.
o Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team 
environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user 
story/requirement creation and advocating MVP.
o Implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software 
for releasing software to production.
o Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and 
application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.
o Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (AWS or Azure).
o Applying configuration management, infrastructure 
provisioning and container orchestration tooling to solve business problems.
o Using modern version control systems including git.
o Debugging complex problems across multiple servers, services and tools –
you can find the needle in the haystack.
DESIRABLE
• Third level – or equivalent - qualification in a related discipline.
• Obtained mid-level certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure).
• Active participation in knowledge sharing activities, both within the team and with 
wider non-technical audiences.
• Experience of cloud-native SaaS and PaaS technologies.
• We are passionate about developing people – experience in managing, mentoring 
and coaching junior members of staff is important