DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Technical Infrastructure:

Heres just some of what we use:

AWS (EC2, IAM, EKS etc.), Terraform Enterprise, Docker, Kubernetes, Aurora, Mesos, HashiCorp Vault and Consul

Datadog and PagerDuty

Microservices architecture, Spring, Java & NodeJS, React, Koa, Express.js.

Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL,

GitHub, Jenkins, Concourse CI , Jfrog Artifactory

About the role:

- You will constantly be asking; what are the most important infrastructure problems we need to solve for today that will increase our applications and infrastructures reliability and performance.
- You will apply your deep technical knowledge, taking a broad look at our technology infrastructure. Youll help us identify common and systematic issues and validate these, prioritizing which to strategically address first.
- We value collaboration. So, you will partner with our SRE/DevOps team, discussing and refining your ideas and preparing proof of concepts. You will present and validate these across technology teams, figuring out the best solution and youll be given ownership to engineer and implement your solutions.
- Theres lot of interesting technology problems for you to solve, so you are constantly applying latest thinking. These include, implementing Canary, designing a new automated pipeline solution, extension of Kubernetes capabilities, implementation of machine learning to build load testing, ensuring mutability of containerization etc.
- You will get to evaluate existing technologies and design the future state without being afraid to challenge the status quo. And youll regularly review existing infrastructure, looking for opportunities to improve (E.g. service improvements, cost reduction, security, performance). Youll also get to automate everything necessary, combining reliability with a pragmatic approach, doing it right, first time.
- Were continuing our journey of making our code and configuration deployments self-serve for our development teams.
- Youll help us build and maintain the right tooling and youll have ownership to design and implement the infrastructure needed
- Youll also be involved in the daily management of our AWS infrastructure. This means working with our Agile development teams, to troubleshoot server, application, and performance issues

Skills & Experience:

- Relevant 3 to 6 years hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in an Agile environment
- Substantial experience with AWS services in a production environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in managing and modernizing legacy systems and infrastructure.
- Youll be able to collaborate effectively with both engineers and operations, and be comfortable recommending best practices
- You have the expertise and skills to navigate the AWS ecosystem and will know when and where to recommend the most appropriate service, and/or usage pattern.
- You have experienced resolving outages, and are able to quickly diagnose issues and been instrumental in restoring normal service levels
- You have an intellectual curiosity, and an appetite to learn more
- Strong hands-on experience working with Linux environments; Windows experience is a plus.
- Strong Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) for automation and process optimization.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI preferably.
- Expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Practical experience managing event-driven systems, messaging queues, and load balancers.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability tools to ensure system reliability. Good to have Datadog, Pager duty exposure.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot critical outages, identify root causes, and restore service quickly.
- Proficiency in HashiCorp technologies including Terraform IaC, Vault (Secret management) and Consul (service discovery and config management).