Mid-Level DevOps Engineer

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Company description

Our client is one of the world’s leading public service broadcaster. They’re impartial and independent, and every day they create distinctive, world-class programmes and content which inform, educate and entertain millions of people in the UK and around the world.

THE ROLE

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent and Continuing
Location: London (one / two days per week in their office.)

Due to the hybrid nature of the teams, they require the successful candidate to be based in the above office to work from the office one / two days per week.

Their comprehensive benefits package includes:

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
• 25 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
• Employee assistance and well-being programmes
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.
They welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch so they can support you.

Job Introduction

The Digital Distribution Monitoring team provide the core and shared observability and alerting systems for their Online department.
Their services are essential to the performance and uptime of many products, spanning both internal data centres and cloud locations.
They've recently introduced InfluxDB based metrics collection, with Grafana for visualisation and Alerta for alerting, which works alongside custom solutions for active monitoring of the variety of pages and products that comprise the their online presence.
They are looking for Mid-level DevOps Engineer to join their team to develop and support these services, where there is plenty of opportunity to bring your own experiences and ideas for the future roadmap, and to collaborate with other internal teams.
They make use of Cloud services such as AWS and have an attitude to be current and flexible in the services, technologies, and languages that they use, and they offer an internal training Academy as well as use of general online learning resources and accreditations.
If you are interested in working at large scale, on critical services, with a desire to support and improve them, have a willingness to learn and keep up to date with the latest advancements and devops approaches, then they'd be keen to hear from you.

Main Responsibilities

Everyone in the team is involved in:

• Designing, developing, testing, and releasing their highly available and performant services
• Peer review of the team’s work
• Maintaining and improving their engineering standards and processes, contributing to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement
• Working closely with the product and operational support teams to ensure their services are suitable and supportable.
• Collaborative working within the team as well as with those that they provide services for in the wider company.
• thinking out of the box, being pro-active, self-sufficient (able to work on your own) and troubleshoot as well as being able to break problem into smaller chunks.

Are you the right candidate?

They are interested in candidates currently operating at the advertised level but are also open to offering opportunities where this is a step up based on current position, where growth to the next level can be demonstrated.

There is coding work involved, as well as associated testing, and these are large architectures, so comfort and familiarity with such is desired, but there is also a lot of collaboration and cooperation with Stakeholders and a need for work hours and on-call operational support.

Specific areas they are interested in terms of experience, familiarity, and expertise in:
• Their current main technologies and languages including Telegraf, InfluxDB, Kapacitor, Alerta, Grafana, Consul, Terraform, Python, Go, Bash, LibreNMS
• Working in an Agile development environment
• Various types of testing including unit, acceptance, behavioural, integration, and load testing
• Optional Network aspects such as HTTP, TLS, DNS, SNMP
• AWS services including EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, ELB, NLB, Route53
• Linux operating systems, primarily Redhat Linux and similar (CentOS, Rocky, Amazon Linux)
• Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment systems and practices
• Design, implementation, and support of large-scale projects, with critical infrastructure placement

This covers the broad range of areas that they are involved in, and the ideal candidate would be able to demonstrate many or all of the above, but if they sound interesting, and you don’t meet all, but are keen to grow and learn, then they'd still like to hear from you.