Senior AWS Devops Engineer, Bristol, Hybrid, £70,000-£90,000

Senior AWS Devops Engineer, Bristol, Hybrid, £70,000-£90,000

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Role and Responsibilities

Answering to the Head of Engineering, we're seeking a seasoned DevOps engineer who's adept at both crafting and rolling out solutions.

• Architect, implement, and manage Public Cloud infrastructures, with a strategic shift towards AWS in the pipeline.
• Set and monitor service level metrics for applications.
• Mentor software teams to ensure seamless app deployment and operation.
• Hands-on troubleshooting and incident handling.
• Primarily UK business hours support, with occasional out-of-hours assistance.
• Identify and implement optimization strategies.
• Establish and refine deployment, incident, and problem management processes and tools.

Experience and Qualifications

Background and Qualifications:

• Ideally, a bachelor's degree in engineering or science; however, we're open to considering other degrees for the right fit.
• A minimum of 4 years in a Senior or Lead DevOps role.
• Proficiency with SaaS applications.

Skills and Experience:

• Agile software development practices.
• Solid grasp of IP Networking, DNS, CDN, Load Balancing, and firewall design.
• Proficiency with AWS, GCP, and Terraform.
• Architecting Kubernetes systems; familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Service Mesh like Istio.
• Comfortable in Linux environments.
• Experience with GitHub for source code management.
• CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Config and Secrets management.
• Scripting with Python, Shell, Perl.
• Security credentials: Familiarity with ISO27001 and SOC compliance is a plus.

We welcome candidates transitioning from software development to DevOps.

Tech Stack:

• OS: Linux (zero Windows deployments)
• Languages: Python, PHP, Shell Script
• Managed Kubernetes
• AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Cognito, Kinesis
• Databases: Postgres, Redis
• Open-source apps: Apache Airflow, Key Cloak, CraftCMS
• Development Frameworks: Django, Tailwind CSS/UI

Location: Bristol

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