Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

• Applies modern DevOps practices, under a moderate level of guidance and direction, to develop, deliver and operate secure and resilient systems and infrastructure. 

• Take ownership of problems to define and implement solutions. 

• Mentor and provide guidance to Junior team members. 

• Owns more complex specific development activities and assists in the architecture design function. 

• Formulates &implements strategic direction, plus contributes to architecture, design & governance. 

• Owns, leads & guides on all types of functional and project streams of work.  

• Owns complex development & support issues. 

• Collaborates with client, project teams, and product development to enable rapid build, consistent and timely deployment, coupled with operational support of various complex of secure low maintenance cloud hosted systems and infrastructures. 

• Contributes to ongoing continuous improvement programs to drive automation and leverage the latest technologies and techniques to deliver the best service to our clients. 

• Works flexible hours within a hybrid working environment. 

• Performs some delivery and maintenance activities as part of an out of hours maintenance schedule. 

• Provides Level 1 and/or level 2 support as part of a critical support roster. 

• English speaking

• Primarily 9 am - 6 pm local time but UK hours and weekend work will be required on regular occasions. 

Qualifications

Technical

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mgmt Information System or related field.

• 5+ years’ experience with cloud systems, ideally in a DevOps or Engineer position.

• Knowledgeable in AWS Services (RDS; EC2; VPC; S3; Route53; Lambda; CloudWatch etc.).

• In-depth understanding in Infrastructure and Platform as a Service environments.

• In-depth understanding of Infrastructure as Code design, principles and tooling.

• Proficiency in scripting (shell, bash, groovy, python).

• Working knowledge in CI/CD practices.

• Cloud Security (Architecture and/or Engineering) experience.

• Cloud Networking (Architecture and/or Troubleshooting) skills.

• Cloud Monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting skills.

Soft Skills

• An aptitude to problem solving

• Good team player who contributes and collaborates with ideas and solutions ▪ Capable of self-motivation and direction, able to work flexibly with minimal guidance

• Willingness to continually learn and adopt new skills and technologies

• Good client facing and communication skills.

• Effective in technical documentation writing.

• Experience in a ticket management tool e.g., Jira, Freshdesk and ServiceNow

• Adapt at applying the principles of frugal AWS architecture

Advantageous, but not a must

• Jenkins CI/CD automation implementation and execution

• JBoss, Tomcat Java application servers understanding

• Oracle (administration) and SQL skills

• Packer development experience

• Terraform IaC experience

• AWS Certified at least associate level

• Linux administration ability

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure
 

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

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