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 the platform infrastructure and execute plans to address these improvements.

• Work alongside the Platform teams to elevate the maturity of all system components, ensuring High Availability, thorough testing, and disaster recovery plans are in place.

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

• Support incident response and resolution, followed by post-mortem analysis and retrospectives.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Extensive experience with distributed cloud systems, particularly Amazon Web Services.

• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.

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

• Familiarity with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads.

• Experience with nginx or similar web server technologies.

• Proficient in using monitoring tools like DataDog, Prometheus, or equivalent.

• A proactive and positive approach to problem-solving.

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

• Strong written and verbal English skills to effectively present ideas.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team that promotes initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch and learns, management 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 providing a payout of 3x the annual salary.

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

• Private Dental Insurance through Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice pension plan facilitated 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 transition during this exciting phase of life!

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

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

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

• Dedicated professional development training budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.

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

• Dog-friendly offices!