Pyramid Consulting, Inc
DevOps Engineer
Watford
Posted about 15 hours ago
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Role – DevOps - Tech Release Engineer
Location – Watford, UK (Hybrid)
Type of Employment - Contract
Job Description
- Proficiency: Hands-on experience managing infrastructure state changes during a live cutover.
- Environment Alignment: Ensure staging, pre-production, and production environments are strictly synchronised in terms of configuration, data schemas, and security policies prior to launch.
- Release Alignment: Coordinate with Release Engineers to ensure that correct software versions, third-party dependencies, and patches are uniformly deployed across the environment estate.
- Environment Drift Detection: Ability to audit and reconcile differences between Staging and Production environments prior to launch.
- Cloud Architecture: Strong working knowledge of cloud platforms.
- Data Migration: Understanding of database schema deployment tools and data replication/synchronization techniques.
- Rollback Execution: Ability to safely execute data rollback procedures without corrupting delta data generated during the cutover window.
- Contingency Management: Maintain a cutover-specific risk register with pre-approved mitigation strategies for likely technical or operational bottlenecks.
- Command Centre Leadership: Lead the technical "Command Centre" during live cutover windows (often scheduled off-hours/weekends), directing engineers, DBAs, and sysadmins.
- Command Centre Facilitation: Establish and operate the Cutover Command Centre (physical or virtual) during the live execution window.
- Stakeholder Triage: Act as the central communication hub. Translate complex technical status updates or blockers into clear, business-focused impacts for executive stakeholders.
- Data Migration Oversight: Partner with Data Engineers to execute delta data migrations, schema updates, and data validation scripts during the cutover window.
- Automate the Runbook: Transition manual cutover steps into automated scripts and deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools.
- Deployment Validation: Implement automated post-deployment smoke tests and health checks to immediately verify system integrity post-cutover.
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Requirements
Qualifications and Experience:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Experience: Minimum 3-5 years of hands-on experience in a technical release engineering environment.
- Communication: Excellent verbal/written communication skills in English.
- Software Architecture Awareness: Understanding of modern application architectures including monolithic, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Deployment Topologies: Understanding of how architecture influences release sequencing, dependency management, rollback complexity, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
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DevOps / Platform Engineering:
- DevOps Practices: Understanding of Infrastructure as code and environment promotion strategies.
- Coding Skills: Coding ability in any of the following programming languages: Javascript, Python, Java, Groovy, Typescript and C++.
- CI/CD & Automation: Deep expertise with deployment tools such as GitHub Actions.
- Cloud & Networking: Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP, specifically regarding traffic routing (Route 53, Cloudflare), Load Balancers, and CDN caching/invalidation.
- Database & Data Migration: Solid grasp of SQL/NoSQL databases, schema migration tools (Liquibase, Flyway), and data replication strategies.
- Containerisation: Hands-on experience managing deployments in Kubernetes (K8s) or Docker environments.
- Branching Strategies: Deep understanding of Git workflow models (GitFlow, Trunk Based Development, Feature Branching) and merge conflict resolution.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Solid working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (K8s), including managing Helm charts or Kustomize for multi-environment deployments.
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Skills
Cloud Architecture
Data Migration
Rollback Execution
Contingency Management
Command Centre Leadership
CI/CD & Automation
Database & Data Migration
Containerisation
DevOps Practices
Coding Skills
Deployment Validation
Environment Drift Detection
Software Architecture Awareness
Branching Strategies
Release Alignment
Environment Alignment
Location