Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS)

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work within a collaborative team focused on maintaining and scaling up our production infrastructure. The successful candidate will work as part of a team focused on site reliability, security, and scalability, as we manage our rapid growth. 

You will be involved in all aspects, from helping us to maintain our on-prem solutions, define and implement AWS/Cloud infrastructure best practices, evaluating different approaches, to hands-on implementation, planning continuous improvements and working on our CI/CD pipelines. To thrive in this exciting environment we imagine the DevOps Engineer to be a proactive and driven individual, who excels at understanding and working on complex technical solutions that have large scale.

• Work closely with the operations team

• Develop CI/CD pipelines to improve on existing deployment processes

• Performing application updates

• Implement security projects on various server and networking platforms

• Installation, monitoring and maintenance of hardware and software

• Writing of scripts to automate jobs/processes

• The security, stability and uptime of production, staging and development environments

• Monitoring the above environments and reacting to alerts and issues that may arise in day-to-day operation of their product line

• Participate in an on-call rota for priority-1 level alarms with the rest of the Ops team

• The maintenance of network, server and storage assets in cloud environments

• Ongoing upgrades and improvements to infrastructure and processes

• Contribute to the planning of application/infrastructure releases and configuration changes

• Interact with internal teams and external 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems

• Documentation of process and developments

• 7 years+ experience in DevOps / system administration supporting a production environment

• Scripting in at least one language (bash/python/php/go)

• Infrastructure as Code principles (Terraform/CloudFormation)

• Kubernetes Experience

• LEMP stack

• Networking and security concepts

• Deployment and debugging of complex applications

• Cloud-based services & virtualization

Bonus Skills:

• Mail deliverability and troubleshooting

• MySQL database administration

• Kafka

• ArgoCD