Senior DevOps Engineer

Full Job Description

At CV-Library we have a clear vision, we want to help the world to work by matching job seekers and businesses on the global platform they need to succeed.
Our mission is also clear for all our team, we help people find jobs and develop their careers and we help businesses find the talent they need to succeed. This also applies to our own businesses within the CV-Library group too!
We ensure that every piece of work we do at CV-Library ensures we can achieve this, it makes us who we are! We have a fun and vibrant culture where results are expected, recognised, and rewarded. Our people make us who we are, we also happen to be a very talented bunch!
We now have an exciting, full-time opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support us on continuing our journey, bringing with you experience to implement change, the passion to pro-actively solve complex technical problems and the ability to champion best practice.
Ideally, you will have an expert understanding of the mechanics of high-traffic high-availability websites and business support and data services. You will need to be highly skilled with AWS, Linux, Docker, Git and MySQL, to list a few, and with a strong knowledge of building / managing delivery pipelines in a CI/CD environment.
Key Responsibilities
* Monitoring the performance and reliability of the company's global online platforms
* Monitoring the availability management, latency, efficiency, and change management
* Monitoring the emergency response and capacity planning
* Troubleshooting issues via proactive and reactive monitoring and alerts using observability tooling and logging service requests
* Enhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issues
* Recording data and managing issues with a view to participation in reviews and blameless post-mortems
* Exploring and delivering on opportunities to implement automation and scripting of services, environments and toolsets
* Collaborating closely with the technology teams, stakeholders and wider teams to achieve our ambitious goals
* Explaining complex technical details to non-technical stakeholders
* Gaining exposure to our technical teams, working closely with software development, QA, Support and IT operations.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
* Experience with AWS supporting a production environment
* Indepth, hands-on experience with Linux
* Strong experience with Docker
* Nginx experience
* Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (preferably Jenkins)
* Experience of infrastructure automation tooling (e.g., Terraform/Puppet)
* Monitoring platforms (ELK, Grafana or similar)
Desirable Requirements
* MySQL experience
* Experience with API gateway products
* Experience with message broker/event streaming platforms RabbitMQ/Kafka
* Observability Platforms and Application Performance Management (preferably New Relic)
* Knowledge of Bash scripting
* Working within an Agile environment using both Kanban and Scrum (preferably using Jira)
We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.
Due to the occasional onsite requirement for this role, it would be most suitable for UK based candidates. All applicants must already hold the Right to Work in the UK.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application