Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Head of Platform and Head of SRE to pinpoint enhancements within the platform infrastructure and implement strategies to address them.

• Partner with the Platform teams to elevate the maturity of all system components, ensuring High Availability, effective testing, and disaster recovery plans.

• Contribute to the advancement of our CI/CD pipelines and establish deployment patterns.

• Support incident response and resolution efforts, followed by conducting post-mortems and retrospectives.

• Engage in tech talks and team-based learning initiatives to facilitate knowledge sharing.

• Maintain thorough documentation, utilizing Playbooks/Runbooks and system documentation to promote knowledge transfer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience in DevOps Engineering and managing a large-scale platform.

• Extensive knowledge of distributed cloud systems, particularly Amazon Web Services.

• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code tools, including Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and others.

• Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud counterparts (e.g., AWS Aurora).

• Experience with messaging systems and distributed asynchronous workloads.

• Familiarity with nginx or similar technologies.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, or equivalent.

• A positive and proactive approach to problem-solving.

• A collaborative team member, eager to assist others when necessary, with a driven personality who actively engages in discussions and asks questions.

• Proficient in written and spoken English to effectively present ideas.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team that supports initiatives like mindfulness, lunch and learns, manager training, mental health first aid training, and more!

• 32 days of holiday (including Bank Holidays), comprising 25 days of annual leave plus 7 additional company-wide days during Easter, Summer, and Christmas.

• Life Assurance coverage at 3 times the annual salary.

• Comprehensive wellness benefits provided by AIG Smart Health, offering a 24/7 virtual GP service, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance through Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension plan administered by Scottish Widows.

• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).

• Five complimentary return-to-work maternity coaching sessions to help you adjust to this exciting new chapter!

• Access to services like Calm and Bippit for financial wellbeing coaching.

• All roles promote flexible working, and we are open to discussing what flexibility means for you.

• Social committees that organize team, office, and company-wide events to foster community and celebrate achievements.

• A dedicated professional development training budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships, and more.

• Opportunity to volunteer with a charity of your choice for one day each year.

• Dog-friendly office environment!