DevOps Engineer

What you’ll be doing

You will help bring us closer to our DevOps nirvana and contribute to our Platform as a Service and DevOps culture (test driven infrastructure, automate everything, self-service tooling). 

We are product driven, not project driven. Our PaaS, built on cloud infrastructure, is our product and the rest of the business our customers.

You will be hands-on in creating solutions to build and automate environments for production use. You understand the need to build scalable, secure, auditable, reproducible and usable infrastructure.

You are security minded and endorse chaos engineering along with the approach of “you build it, you run it” and “you break it, you fix it”.

You will be required to be part of the on call rota, and believe that through well designed systems and automation you will never be called.

We are mostly hosted at AWS (and annually attend re:Invent) and have built a PaaS on top to allow our product teams to deploy their applications using a Codebuild / GitHib Actions/Docker/Ansible/Terraform driven, region agnostic, blue-green automated deployment pipeline; this offers both AMIs and Docker images for deployment to our respective AWS EC2 and ECS production environment. We also use Azure and GCP with zero on-prem infrastructure.

In front of this we offer a self-service load balancing solution along with a DSL-based approach for creating and managing our subdomains with regards to DNS, SSL certificates, traffic manager routing and monitoring. 

This framework is all done as Infrastructure as Code including integrations of other AWS services (e.g. RDS, S3), with a focus on providing the guardrails for immutable systems and making it as self-service as possible for the Engineering Teams.

We work in a timely, prioritised and start small manner. We look at the highest pain points for both dev and ops and work backwards. We continuously re-evaluate using the right tool for the DevOps job and making abstraction easy. 

Skills we need

• Linux systems administration.

• Experience of cloud hosting such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience with continuous delivery / provisioning / deployment.

• Building and managing production public-facing sites.

• Familiarity with the concept of ‘infrastructure as code’.

• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Cloudformation (but not limited to those mentioned) 

• Strong programming skills (in any language).

Skills we’d like

• Experience with hosting internet applications - DNS, load balancing, internet protocols, SSL etc... 

• Experience of monitoring tools such as New Relic.

• Experience of logging tools such as ELK.

• Experience of secrets management.

• Experience of container technologies such as Docker.

• Networking skills.

• Experience of software / infrastructure testing and ideally TDD.