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SalarySenior DevOps Engineer
We're delighted to be working with this award-winning SaaS business. With 20 years' experience delivering solutions to global enterprises, the company is recognised as a leader in its field, with a wide variety of household-name clients.
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This particular role is to lead the company's DevOps efforts. It reports to the Head of Engineering and oversees all day-to-day DevOps activities as well as honing and improving the tools and processes used by the business.
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The company has built a global reputation for innovation. Building and maintaining leading-edge infrastructure and development environments is crucial to this. We're looking for someone who enjoys designing and implementing solutions and can help keep the company ahead of the curve.
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The current technology stack is as follows: -
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Linux
Python, PHP, Shell script
Django, Tailwind, CSS/UI
Managed Kubernetes
AWS Lamda, Cognito, Kinesis, Step functions
Postgres, Redis
Apache Airflow, Key Cloak, CraftCMS
AWS and GCP used currently, but moving wholly over to AWS over time
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The company has just moved to very pleasant new offices in Bristol. The role can be done on a hybrid basis, with two or three days per week in the office.
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Senior DevOps Engineer - responsibilities
- Designing, deploying and maintaining Public Cloud infrastructure using AWS & GCP?
- Implementing monitoring tools for applications and defining service level metrics
- Defining processes & tools for deployment, incident & problem management
- Managing and developing junior DevOps engineer
- Mentoring and guiding development teams ensuring smooth and continuous deployment
- Identifying and addressing areas for optimisation and improvement
- Troubleshooting and incident management
- Providing support (usually in UK business hours but occasionally out of hours)
- Maintaining security standards and accreditations
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Senior DevOps Engineer - requirements
- Proven experience in a senior DevOps role in a Linux environment
- Experience in SaaS (any experience in e-learning would be a big plus)
- Knowledge of agile development practises
- Good Public Cloud knowledge, especially AWS and/or GCP
- Experience architecting Kubernetes systems & tools (e.g. Prometheus, Istio)
- Experience managing source code and CI/CD pipelines & workflows using GitHub
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Suitable coding knowledge (e.g. Python, Perl, PHP, Shell)
- Knowledge of security (ISO27001 or SOC compliance would be useful)
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As well as a competitive salary and hybrid working, the company offers flexible working hours (core hours are 10am - 3.30pm), 33 days holidays (including bank hols), pension, income protection and life assurance and a health cash plan.
