Senior DevOps Engineer (Fully Remote/AWS/UNIX/CI/CD/ITILv3)

• Strong preference for candidates who are based in UK and Ireland
• Senior Level
• Permanent
• Fully Remote Working Environment
• Flexible Working Hours and Promote Work-Life Balance (Core Hours are from 10am to 3pm)
• £65K-£75K & Benefits
• Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Company Description

• Primarily responsible for cloud infrastructure setup ensuring stability, scaling, security, and high availability of our clients platform.
• Responsible for infrastructure planning, testing, and development.
• Responsible for the deployment of builds to various servers and EXE & APK builds to various online Stores.
• Participate in validation of software releases and hardware upgrades.
• Keep technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies, understanding how they might benefit the Technology Team and the company.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving abilities which includes seeing the higher context and the issues from many different perspectives.
• Responsible for backup and restore of our clients platform critical data and files.
• Managing and deploying multiple AWS Service (e.g. EC2, CloudFront, S3).
• Develop best practices and security standards for the organization.
• Advise and educate on security modelling, secure design, and vulnerability remediation.
• Responsible for maintenance of the platform security policy document.
• Constantly reviewing and monitoring cloud infrastructure setup looking for opportunities to enhance security, scale and add stability to ensure high availability of the platform.
• Keep updated to the latest common vulnerabilities, weaknesses and find ways to counter them.
• Assist fellow employees with cybersecurity, software, hardware or IT needs.
• Evaluate system performances and recommend improvements.
• Assist in triage of production performance issues in a fast and efficient manner.
• Implements an on-going cloud cost optimisation process.
• Liaison with client dev ops team to help install private cloud implementation of the platform.
• Liaison with third party companies during penetration testing.
• Liaise closely with the Technical Leads to be in line with the Technology Roadmap.
• Collaborates closely with the HOD, Product Owner & Dev Team to guide and address stability, scaling, security, and high availability of the platform.
• Collaborate with the Development, QA, and Infrastructure teams regarding performance engineering, to identify and verify tuning enhancements for applications and services.
• Communicate with Application Development team when upgrades will cause application performance issues.

Skill Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or College Diploma in a computer science related course.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud architectures and implementation best practices.
• Proven experience with AWS, or other cloud hosting providers.
• Strong knowledge on UNIX systems.
• Exposure & experience on IaC (Infrastructure as a Code) or any other management and provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Chef, Puppet)
• Working knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes or AWS ECS and AWS EKS.
• Experience setting up, securing, maintaining, and backing up relational & non-relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis).
• In-depth knowledge of security protocols, principles, and best practices.
• Proven experience developing, operating, and maintaining security systems, including anti-virus applications, content filtering, firewalls, authentication systems and intrusion detection and notification systems.
• Proficiency in networking technologies, network security and performance, and network monitoring solutions.
• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Pingdom).
• Experience with application security testing.
• Experience in finding and debugging performance issues in applications.
• Excellent CI/CD experience.
• A deep understanding of automation tools.
• Experience using version control platforms (e.g. Git, Perforce, SVN, TFVC)
• Good understanding of RESTful API.