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We're looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. In this role, you'll have significant technical responsibility within a Platform Engineering team which consists of another 7 engineers and supports core elements of our Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
Reporting into the DevOps Engineering Lead, this role will be central in delivering change and strategy in an agile and transparent way to the Internal Developer Platform (IDP). The role requires a team player who is highly technical, organised and a passion for excellence. You will provide clarity on the PEST roadmap and priority of work which will align to the business needs and IDP goals. You will be hands-on in terms of delivering new features for our IDP and internal PaaS.
Mentor, and Develop: Provide expert technical mentorship to grow the team's skills and careers.
Set and Execute Technical Vision: Partnering with our DevOps Engineering Lead you will design, architect and lead the implementation of our infrastructure roadmap.
Systemic Improvement: Identifying system-wide bottlenecks, technical debt and inefficiencies; proposing solutions that result in significant improvements to developer productivity, security, reliability and cost.
Champion a Modern DevOps Culture: Drive our principles of automation, self-service tooling and a "you build it, you run it" mindset.
Complex Problem Solving: Remain hands-on and excelling at identifying and solving the most ambiguous, high-impact technical problems.
Elevate the Developer Experience (DevEx): Act as a key architect for our IDP, treating infrastructure as a product.
An experienced mentor, passionate about developing engineers technical expertise.
A good communicator, with a technical and non-technical audience.
A deep technical expert and architectural visionary, with a proven track record of designing and building scalable, resilient infrastructure.
A modern DevOps evangelist who lives and breathes "infrastructure as code" and champions a culture of automation and security.
Fluent in cloud-native technologies, with a profound, hands-on understanding of a major cloud provider like AWS.
An automation specialist, highly proficient with tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
An early adopter of the latest technologies, using AI to bring DevOps culture and automation to the next level.
A few tasters of our recent roadmap …
Adding ‘rainbow deployments’ to our existing blue/green and red/black options. This allows our Engineers to deploy multiple versions of their codebase to the live environment to allow real time A/B testing of new features.
Changing our ‘golden images’ for AMI’s and containers from Amazon Linux 2 to Ubuntu and successfully rolling this out to hundreds of instances and thousands of containers with zero downtime. And just to make it more challenging we simultaneously shifted from a x86 to an ARM architecture.
Adding auto injection of secrets to our instance and container runtimes to reduce the cognitive load of managing them per app and improve security by centralising standards.
Building a tool to auto-generate IaC as part of the CI/CD pipeline using a DSL like definition of the required infrastructure elements.
Developer Portal: Backstage
Version Control: Github
AI Pair Programmer: Github CoPilot
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible
Container Management: Docker
Continuous Integration: Semaphore
Continuous Deployment: - Github Actions / AWS CodeBuild / Bespoke tooling
Binary and Artifact Management: Nexus
Observability: New Relic (Log Ingestion, Application Performance Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring)
Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (ECR, ECS, Bedrock, Fargate, Lambda, Route 53……), Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Azure
Database: MongoDB Atlas, AWS Aurora Postgres
Message Broker: Confluent Kafka
Web Application Firewall: Cloudflare
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