DevOps Engineer

What You Will Do

• Create cloud infrastructure in AWS & Kubernetes via automation using IaC such as Terraform, Helm, Github Actions and Spacelift.
• Create and deploy effective observability and monitoring solutions via automation using Monitoring as Code (MaC) such as Terraform, Grafana, and Sumologic.
• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes, utilizing tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to diagnose, troubleshoot, and deliver innovative solutions to critical production issues, ensuring the reliability and performance of customer-facing systems.
• Work with your colleagues and other engineering teams to propose and implement enhancements that improve scalability, reliability, and developer workflows to internal and/or production infrastructure.
• Use your Platform Engineering/DevOps/SRE experience to prevent incidents from ever happening
• Identify operational processes suitable for automation and drive the implementation of solutions.
• Carry personal responsibility for high-quality changes to a live production infrastructure.
• Create estimates and work plans, then deliver according to those plans in an agile manner.
• Be part of an on-call rotation; occasionally participate during, or outside of, working hours in incident resolution as a subject matter expert.
• Occasionally carry out changes outside of normal working hours.

Must Have Skills / Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience of building secure, cloud-native applications using AWS managed services.
• Ability to design, implement, and operate automated deployment pipelines suitable for production environments, ensuring reliability and scalability within an Agile framework.
• Development experience of creating complex AWS services using Terraform and automation pipelines.
• Development experience of creating Kubernetes resources.
• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell.
• Linux or windows systems administration.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering modern DevOps practices for the full development lifecycle.

Additional skills and experience

• Redhat OpenShift (OCP) experience, either on-prem or in cloud.
• Experience with multiple cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, Google) is a plus.
• Effective communication in a variety of settings: one on one, small and large groups.
• Adapts approach and demeanour to match the demands of the situation.
• Experience of working as part of a global organization with engineering teams across multiple time-zones and cultures.
• A passion for keeping pace with industry trends, technologies, and their appropriate implementation.
• Fluent in the English language.