DevOps Specialist

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote to December then potentially one day a week in the office – Some travel may be required once a month

Salary: £75K-£85K plus Bonus, Holiday and training allowance

We are looking for a Senior DevOps engineer with a minimum of 5 years’ experience to join a growing Cloud, DevOps and Engineering team.

About you

You’re a strong oral and written communicator comfortable working with senior stakeholders. You’re happy managing your own activities, setting your own objectives where appropriate and working with your own development plan. You have what it takes to integrate into teams of all sizes and you can manage conflict situations with empathy, diplomacy and sensitivity.

Who you’ll work with

As a part of the Cloud & DevOps team, you will work predominantly with Product teams, inside their sprints to deliver the Cloud and automation requirements. You’ll work closely with:

• Product Team colleagues
• Engineering/Tech Leads
• Cloud Architects
• Security
• Support and Service teams

Your responsibilities

You will work with Product engineering teams to help ship products and services at pace but without compromising security and reliability. As the DevOps Engineer in a team and a part of the Cloud, DevOps and Engineering community, you will be responsible for a range of activities including:

Help to define best practices for implementation of CI & CD toolsets

Design and implement Continuous Integration solutions

Design and implement Deployment solutions

Assess and improve processes such as Release and Configuration Management

Take an active part in defining and building DevOps go to market services

Creation of reference services and architectures for DevOps

Help to define work packages and plan for success

Communication of complex technical problems in simple terms

Take an analytical approach to problem-solving

A collaborative working approach using online tools and channels

Documenting and explaining solutions

Experience

5+ years in a DevOps role

Enterprise organisation experience

Background demonstrating experience of operational life-cycle not just development, i.e. “You Build It You Own It’

Experience of working in teams using Agile and Lean methodologies

Tooling and Tech

You can show good knowledge and skills using these:

Advanced knowledge and experience of cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure

Experience designing and implementing CI & CD solutions in enterprise environments

Experience of cloud automation using configuration management tools

Technical experience of creating CD automation with one or more of Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Spinnaker

Cloud automation using tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation and APIs

Technical experience working with code repositories such as Git, Github, BitBucket.

Technical experience implementing CI using tools such as Sonar, Nexus, Artifactory, Jenkins, Bamboo or equivalents

Experience of creating Continuous Delivery pipelines for complex applications including legacy applications

Technical experience with one or more scripting languages e.g. Ruby, Bash, Python

Technical experience using Lambda, Cloud DBs, APIGateway, CDN, SQS and other Cloud-native services

Monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Insights, Graphite, Prometheus, ELK, Cloudtrail

If you are interested please apply or reach out to me a Ljohnson@welovesalt.com

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