DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Xtremepush Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Mid/Senior DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic team in London. The role involves maintaining and scaling production infrastructure while focusing on site reliability and security. Candidates should have over 5 years of DevOps experience and expertise in scripting and Cloud infrastructure. This hybrid position allows for collaboration in a fast-paced environment, where innovative CI/CD pipelines and cloud solutions are essential. Strong skills in Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code principles are preferred.

Qualifications

• 5 years+ experience in DevOps/system administration supporting a production environment.
• Proficient in scripting with bash, python, php, or go.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code principles.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the operations & engineering teams.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment processes.
• Implement security projects on various server and networking platforms.
• Monitoring and maintenance of hardware and software.

Skills

DevOps experience

Scripting (bash/python/php/go)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)

GitOps principles (ArgoCD)

Kubernetes

LEMP stack

Networking and security concepts

Cloud-based services & virtualization

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a Mid / Senior DevOps Engineer to work within a collaborative team focused on maintaining and scaling up our production infrastructure. The successful candidate will work as part of a team focused on site reliability, security, and scalability, as we manage our rapid growth.

You will be involved in all aspects, from helping us to maintain our cloud solutions, define and implement AWS/Cloud infrastructure best practices, evaluating different approaches, to hands-on implementation, planning continuous improvements and working on our CI/CD pipelines. To thrive in this exciting environment we imagine the DevOps Engineer to be a proactive and driven individual, who excels at understanding and working on complex technical solutions that have large scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the operations & engineering teams
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to implement or improve deployment processes.
• Implement security projects on various server and networking platforms
• Installation, monitoring and maintenance of hardware and software
• Monitoring the above environments and reacting to alerts and issues that may arise in day-to-day operation of their product line
• Participate in an on-call rota for priority-1 level alarms with the rest of the Ops team
• The maintenance of network, server and storage assets in cloud environments
• Ongoing upgrades and improvements to infrastructure and processes
• Contribute to the planning of application/infrastructure releases and configuration changes
• Interact with internal teams and external 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
• Documentation of process and developments

Your Experience and Qualifications

• 5 years+ experience in DevOps / system administration supporting a production environment
• Scripting in at least one language (bash/python/php/go)
• Infrastructure as Code principles (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• GitOps principles (ArgoCD)
• Kubernetes Experience
• LEMP stack
• Networking and security concepts
• Cloud-based services & virtualization

Bonus Skills:

• Mail deliverability and troubleshooting
• Database administration
• Kafka

Location

This is a hybrid role based in Dublin, Ireland or London/Milton Keynes, UK.