CloudOps Engineer

WHAT TO EXPECT DAY TO DAY

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CloudOps Engineer to help automate, deploy and secure customer facing Cloud solutions using DevSecOps practices such as automation, CI Pipelines and Infrastructure as Code & security.

You will work alongside Software Development, Product and Operations teams to identify and eliminate constraints in the product life cycle.

You will help to develop monitoring and alerting for AWS deployed platforms and software to support sustained and reliable availability of internal and production systems.

The ideal candidate will be someone who is ambitious and not afraid to take ownership, someone with strong technical problem – solving skills and who is collaborative with development teams and has a passion to automate away the mundane areas of development and deployment and will keep up to date with current trends in technology.

You will be working alongside the small, existing team but will be expected to bring additional knowledge and experience to aid the growth and expansion of the company.

The successful candidate must be available for participation in the on-call rotation schedule and occasional travel.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

· 5+ years' experience in a similar role (SRE, Cloud infrastructure/DevOps)

· An understanding of the SDLC process.

· Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)

· Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

· Experience of container technologies (Docker or Podman)

· Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)

· Experience of AWS services (VPC, Security Group, EC2, Route53, IAM, S3, AWS-cli)

· Familiarity with Continuous Integration Pipelines (Gitlab CI, Travis CI, etc.)

· Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Shell, Python, Ruby, etc.)

· Experience with Source Control Management (Git, SVN)

· Demonstrable Linux Systems Administration (Ubuntu, CentOS)

· Experience with Web servers (Apache, NGINX)

· Excellent written and verbal communication

· Experience of producing technical and process documentation

QUALIFICATION

· Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related is desirable but not essential.

NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT ESSENTIAL

· Service monitoring and graphing tools (Prometheus + Grafana, Nagios, Datadog)

· Elastic stack

· Repository solutions (Jfrog Artifactory, Jfrog Bintray)

· OpenVPN

· Apache Tomcat

· Messaging streams & communication platforms (RabbitMQ, Postfix, Mandrill)

· SQL Databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL)

· Microservice Architecture

· Apache Kafka

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

· We seek out individuals who are always looking for new ways to improve or do things differently.

· We expect you to be proactive and be prepared to share open and honest feedback regularly.

· We know that working collaboratively will help us reach our shared goals faster, so we always look for similar individuals who will be willing to help others.

· Whether it is our customers, our markets, or each other, we like people to ask questions and listen to the answers so we can all learn and improve.

· We expect individuals to take responsibility for their actions and make decisions based on what is right for people, profit and planet

BENEFITS

· 25 Days of Annual Leave

· FitPass membership

· Private Health Insurance

· Internal Reward & Recognition Tool Kudos