Senior DevOps Engineer Remote

Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location : Remote

Salary : 80k

Company Benefits...

• Base salary of up to £80,000 depending of qualifications/experience.
• 25 Days Holiday
• Birthday off
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Training and career development

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the Systems & Development team, you will report to the Head of Systems and Development and collaborate closely with developers and the infrastructure engineer. Your primary responsibility will be to maintain and enhance our Kubernetes, AWS, and on-premise environments to support application deployment. You'll ensure the stability, cost-efficiency, and maintainability of our infrastructure while setting and upholding CI/CD standards across the team.

You'll take ownership of our cloud infrastructure as the team's lead DevOps expert, actively contributing to platform development, automation, and process improvement. In this role, you'll work independently, troubleshoot complex issues, and mentor others, ensuring that systems are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals.

Job Requirements:

Ideal Profile...

• The ability to collaborate with technical and operations teams with a range of technical skill levels
• An inquiring attitude - you don't like things that you can't explain, figure stuff out if you don't know, and try to get to the bottom of odd glitches
• Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to map out processes using diagramming tools, to present technical changes to non-technical stakeholders,
• At least 5 years of professional experience in development and operational roles
• Strong understanding of good data governance and relevant legislation (UK GDPR etc)
• Fluent proficiency in Python, with experience in modern Python (we use 3.12 onwards) and language features such as type hinting, async, etc
• Experience with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/other SCM/devops platforms
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Github Actions, GitLab pipelines, Bitbucket pipelines, Jenkins, etc
• Experience with Kubernetes workload management and administration
• Experience with administering Linux systems directly and with config management systems such as Ansible and Puppet.
• Degree-level qualification in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or similar equivalent professional experience demonstrating your ability to work and think in an analytical manner

Your key responsibilities as Senior DevOps Engineer will be...

• Development and maintenance of our continuous integration and deployment toolchains
• Support and maintenance of our Kubernetes cluster and AWS cloud environments
• Development of best practice guidance and support documentation for other software engineers
• Development of software applications for the business, ranging from APIs for wholesale partners to network
• provisioning tools to customer support tools, and any other components as required
• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand and verify requirements or desired system behaviour throughout the development process
• Support and mentoring of junior members of the team, helping to build a stronger team and increase our capacity

INDIT

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