Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Join our esteemed R&D teams where groundbreaking innovations fuel our company's meteoric rise. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in crafting and refining the backbone of our products across a diverse spectrum of projects, leveraging a rich tapestry of tools and technologies that define the cutting edge of our industry. Your responsibilities will be multifaceted, encompassing the development, management, configuration, and automation of systems and services within the dynamic landscapes of AWS and Azure. Additionally you will be:

• Collaborating within agile, specialized teams, you'll infuse your expertise into projects, whether working independently or fostering fresh ideas to propel our endeavors forward.
• Your adept prioritization skills will ensure seamless integration into broader organizational goals, addressing immediate challenges while advancing our collective progress.

Who you are

• To be suitable for the role you will have had hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, along with supporting technologies like ArgoCD and Helm.
• You should also be familiar and well-versed in monitoring, logging, and observability tools including: Prometheus; Grafana; Loki; OpenTelemetry; and the ELK stack. Amongst this, you should be able to demonstrate:
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a solid background in building and supporting software applications.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and maintaining on commercial cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar).
• Experience in infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, AWS CloudFormation) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable systems capable of handling high loads.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, combined with effective communication abilities to articulate technical concepts.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Node.JS, Go) with a focus on automation and scripting.
• Strong Linux experience and sound understanding of core networking and best security principles.
• Hands-on experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines for large-scale systems (experience with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).

Salary Benchmarks

DevOps & Infrastructure

Expert: £130k

Senior: £60k

Company Benefits

• 23 days paid holiday plus UK bank holidays, increasing to 25 days after two years’ service
• Additional birthday day off
• Salary Sacrifice pension scheme with 4% employer contribution and minimum 5% employee contribution
• Optional BUPA private medical insurance for you and your immediate family
• Life assurance with a benefit of 4x your annual basic salary
• Employee Assistance Programme offering both on-line and telephone support and resources to you and your family
• Cycle to work scheme
• Active social and charity initiatives including our matched charitable giving scheme and employee recognition scheme