Senior DevOps Engineer

In a nutshell

Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Confident DevOps engineer that can support VR client releases, web deployments, and work towards a better DevOps experience

Location: Remote, UK

Days/week: Full Time

Salary: DOE

The Who, What, Where, When & Why

This is an amazing opportunity to be a DevOps Engineer at Oxford Medical Simulation. You will be responsible for helping to ensure reliable releases of our VR clients, which includes clinical scenarios used by learners internationally. Additionally, you’ll be looking after pipelines that enable smooth and reliable deployments to two web applications, including a learning management system and a scenario authoring platform.

You might be:

• Working with our developers to improve and expand our infrastructure, automation and deployment processes

• Working with our QA team to ensure new build of our simulation software

• Building and deploying new infrastructure and services.

Because of you, OMS is delivering more training, more quickly, to those that need it in healthcare and healthcare education.

You're doing this because you have an incredible and wide skill set and want to make as broad an impact as possible.

Are you ready for your next challenge?

Who you are:

• You are organised in your process and approach.

• You have strong communication skills.

• You are adaptable to changing business needs, as there is a tight interplay between customer success and product development.

• You love new technology and want to be part of a team using cutting edge tech for good.

• Proactive in dealing with issues before they become problems.

• You have used a variety of tools and platforms for deployment of software, including infrastructure as code and CI/CD.

What you will be doing:

• Improving and scaling our hosting infrastructure

• Optimising processes and pipelines

• Keeping ahead of problems with active monitoring and alerting

• Ensuring our infrastructure is secure and resilient to service outages

• Ensuring our service level agreements are met

• Improving and maintaining DevOps tooling and automation

• Monitoring spending on cloud and other services and suggesting and implementing efficiencies

• Building and contributing to a Community of Practice

Essential

• Minimum 5 years DevOps experience

• Expert Kubernetes experience. You will have played a major role in designing, implementing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.

• Expert understanding of networking including VPNs, Firewalls, Web Application Firewalls, DNS

• Good knowledge of Infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)

• Experience of Helm Charts

• Experience with Argo CD

• Version control expertise (we use GitHub)

• CI/CD expertise (we use TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Argo CD)

• AWS including IAM, ECS, Route 53, S3

• Experience with AWS and GCP

• Strong time management and prioritisation skills

• Strong communication, both written and verbal

• Adaptable to rapidly changing situations and dynamic environments

• Ability to communicate with a range of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures

Bonus points for any of the following:

• Knowledge of web application development

• Experience with Loki, Prometheus and Grafana

• Experience with Cloudflare

• Experience or knowledge of healthcare or education

• Familiarity with Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, and Slack

• Awareness of how games or other applications are built

About Oxford Medical Simulation

OMS helps health systems, hospitals, medical and nursing schools deliver quality simulation at scale.

Our award-winning VR simulation platform is transforming the way healthcare and educational institutions train, assess and recruit healthcare professionals. By combining cutting edge 3D visualization with artificial intelligence and leading educational theory, OMS delivers all of the benefits of physical simulation while delivering significant savings and improving patient care.

Founded in 2017 and commercially launching the award-winning OMS Platform in late 2018, Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) has experienced rapid growth with deployments spanning the globe across the NHS, Health Education England, Oxford University, multiple US universities and health systems and the world’s #1 paediatric hospital. OMS was named in the Top 50 Tech Companies 2019 by Business Cloud and was a finalist in the Global VR Awards 2019 & 2020. Won EdTech of the Year Award for the British Data Awards 2021. Shortlisted for the best use of VR/AR at Go Tech 2021.

OMS is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. OMS is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Who we are

We are Skiers / Boarders, Runners, Rowers, Pilots, Magicians, Weavers, Photographers, Game heroes, Movie Buffs, and every other variety of people. We are hard working. We are passionate about what we do. We care about the work. We care about each other. We care about pushing the envelope and we care about using our working lives to make the world a better place.

We value these behaviours above all:

1. Care & Pride - we take care and pride in everything we do
2. Growth mindset - we push the boundaries so we are adaptive, inventive and always learning
3. One Team - we are in it together, mucking in and supporting each other with humour and humility

Sound like you?

Benefits (UK)

• 38 days annual leave (incl. Public holidays)

• Private Medical Insurance

• Flexible work environment - work from home/ remote first

• Pension: 3% company and 5% individual contribution

• £500 one-off office set up allowance

• High specification work laptop and oculus headset

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave