Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Description

• As a member of a high-performing Agile team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable cloud infrastructure through a customized SAFe Agile SecDevOps Scrum process.

• You will utilize DevOps best practices and cloud-native design principles, harnessing AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to promote automation and continuous delivery across various environments.

• This position also entails hands-on involvement with automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure monitoring, alongside participation in Agile ceremonies, risk mitigation efforts, and collaborative solution design.

• A cross-functional approach encompassing systems engineering, software development, testing, and security is highly appreciated.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing source code with GIT, including pull requests, branching strategies (Trunk-based, GitFlow), and collaborative version control workflows.

• Proficient in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, encompassing services like EC2, ECR, ECS, ECK, ASG, VPC, RDS, Load Balancers, Lambda, IAM, ports, R53, etc.

• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing Terraform and Ansible to provision, configure, and maintain secure and scalable cloud environments.

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing automation to build, test, and deploy applications across multiple environments.

• Demonstrated ability to write and maintain scripts and automation tools using Bash, Python, and PowerShell to streamline operational workflows and reduce manual tasks.

• Familiarity with containerization via Docker and orchestration best practices, along with configuration management using Ansible.

• Knowledge of secrets management and access control employing tools like Vault and IAM policies, ensuring secure management of credentials and sensitive data.

• Strong grasp of AWS security best practices, including encryption, patching, monitoring, least privilege access, and compliance standards.

• Hands-on experience in implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to safeguard data and ensure business continuity.

• Ability to deploy effective monitoring and logging solutions, such as CloudWatch, to guarantee system reliability, observability, and proactive incident response.

• Comfortable working within Agile development teams, converting business requirements into technical solutions, and actively engaging in sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.

• Capability to design scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud-native solutions that align with availability and performance targets.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to identify root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies in complex environments.

• Understanding of routing, traffic management, and load balancing, including the configuration of NGINX and AWS-native tools for optimizing traffic flow.

• Experience with structured release and change management processes, including deployment governance, rollback strategies, and version control.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Private Medical Insurance

• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays, and a cycle to work scheme)

• Flexible Working Scheme