Senior DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Lead the deployment architecture that enhances platform maturity.

• Streamline daily delivery operations across the on-premise infrastructure.

• Serve as the primary engineering stakeholder in the design, configuration, and implementation of the Kubernetes platform.

• Leverage and contribute to Ansible-based deployment automation for product feature rollouts.

• Adhere to established TechOps peer-review protocols.

• Oversee application-level health monitoring within the cluster.

• Collaborate with TechOps on incident management and conduct post-mortem analyses for engineering-driven deployments.

• Maintain comprehensive deployment documentation, runbooks, and self-service guides for developers.

• Develop Kubernetes self-service workflows, guardrails, standards, and requirements for key components such as Gateway API, RBAC, admission controllers, and resource policies.

• Standardize ingress, RBAC, namespacing strategies, and secrets management within namespaces.

• Work alongside engineering teams to containerize and transition workloads to Kubernetes.

• Create CI/CD workflows for Kubernetes deployments utilizing Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or comparable tools.

• Implement application-level metrics, logging, and alerting within namespaces.

• Produce deployment runbooks, manifest templates, and best-practice documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong, demonstrable experience with Ansible, encompassing roles, inventories, vault, and idempotency.

• Proficient with Docker and Docker Compose in production settings.

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals.

• Strong scripting skills in Bash and Python.

• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.

• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Alertmanager or their equivalents.

• Ability to think innovatively within constraints and plan effectively.

• Methodical and security-aware approach.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Familiarity with Helm chart creation and management (nice-to-have).

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform (nice-to-have).

• Experience with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault, Sealed Secrets, or External Secrets Operator (nice-to-have).

• Previous experience balancing greenfield projects with business-as-usual responsibilities (nice-to-have).

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of vacation in addition to public holidays.

• Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months of full pay for the birth parent, and 4 weeks of full pay for the non-birth parent after one year of employment.

• 5 additional 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year.

• Private Medical and Dental Insurance.

• Increased pension contributions.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Eye Care Vouchers.

• Life Assurance.

• Comprehensive Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching, and Wellness Programs.

• Regular company events and activities.

• Genuine ownership of the delivery lifecycle.

• Freedom to influence code shipping, pipeline development, and automated guardrails.

• Opportunity to guide the migration to Kubernetes and build a modern, scalable platform.

• Progressive engineering culture focused on automation and continuous improvement.