Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Head of Platform and Head of SRE to pinpoint enhancements in platform infrastructure and execute plans.

• Elevate the maturity of platform components, focusing on High Availability, testing, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and establish effective deployment patterns.

• Support incident response and resolution efforts, as well as conduct post-mortems and retrospectives.

• Engage in tech talks and promote team-based learning opportunities.

• Maintain thorough Playbooks, Runbooks, and systems documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer.

• Boost the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform to support rapid business scaling.

• Persistently refine architecture, infrastructure, and operational methodologies using a metrics-driven strategy.

• Work collaboratively with the solution architect and engineering teams.

⛳️ 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 such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.

• Familiarity with relational database technologies and cloud variants like AWS Aurora.

• Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads.

• Proficient in nginx or comparable technologies.

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

• Positive and proactive mindset towards problem-solving.

• A team player who is willing to assist others when necessary and actively engage in discussions.

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

• Bonus: Previous experience with large-scale enterprise solutions.

• Bonus: Familiarity with Kanban and agile development methodologies.

• Bonus: Experience with Docker and containerization.

• Bonus: Knowledge of software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, and Test-Driven Development.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team providing mindfulness activities, lunch and learns, manager training, mental health first aid training, and more.

• 32 days of holiday in addition to Bank Holidays, which includes 25 days of annual leave and 7 extra company-wide days.

• Life Assurance coverage at 3x the annual salary.

• Comprehensive AIG Smart Health wellness benefits, featuring 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance through Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension plan managed by Scottish Widows.

• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave offering 20 weeks of full pay.

• Enhanced paternity leave providing 6 weeks of full pay.

• Five complimentary return-to-work maternity coaching sessions.

• Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching services.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Participation in social committees and various team, office, and company-wide events.

• Allocated professional development training budget including CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.

• One paid volunteer day each year.

• Pet-friendly office environment.