Infrastructure Engineer

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Infrastructure Engineer-6 MONTHS-HTTP,DNS,SSL,LINUX,JAVA WEB APPLICATIONS- EDINBURGH-£350-£400-(Inside IR35)

The Company:

Digital technology offers the opportunity to transform the way public services are delivered, both in the cost of their delivery and in improving the user-experience of those services.

Digital Public Services and Business Transformation works with the wider public sector to deliver a range of technical products. These will include a variety of programmes which will be worked on over the course of the contract.

The Role:

The Infrastructure Engineer will make a critical contribution to the successful operation of all systems delivered as a part of the Client's programme. This will include the design, implementation and administration of the production, test and development environments for the systems. It will include support to the team on major operational challenges such as ensuring these systems are secure, highly available and operate with exemplary performance.

Essential Experience:

Significant senior professional experience of web infrastructure as well as the operation and support of high traffic web applications and platforms.

Familiarity with web systems architecture, deployment and operation in traditional data centres and using cloud computing delivery models.

This should include:

*Web servers, web accelerators and reverse proxy caches

*Linux operating system

*Java web applications

*Relational database servers

Demonstrable experience in automation of tasks and the use of declarative provisioning tools, for example Puppet.

Proficient in administering, securing and optimising computer networks including the following technologies:

*TCP/IP

*HTTP

*DNS

*SSL / TLS

Experience of both waterfall and agile methods of project management, with proficiency in iterative software development including an understanding of the associated responsibilities, practices and artefacts and the ability to communicate clearly on these and other elements of the software development lifecycle.

Desirable Experience:

Familiarity with continuous delivery including tactics such as automated provisioning, declarative system configuration and autonomic infrastructure.

Experience in architecting and deploying modern web applications in the Amazon Web Services environment, including:

-EC2

-Route53

-VPC and networking

-ELB

-RDS

-S3

Benefits

*Day rate between £350-£400

*Extension potential

*Close to public transport links

Any Infrastructure Engineer's interested in the role are encouraged to make an application with an up to date CV and details on desired daily rate. All successful Infrastructure Engineers shall be subject to Disclosure Scotland checks.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 21st of June 2017 at 11am. Any applications received after this time cannot be considered.

Spring Technology is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Spring Technology is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.