Senior DevOps engineer

Senior DevOps engineer | Contract | London

About the role:

My client is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their growing team.

You will be working on a complex system on the AWS platform, still very early in its life cycle, where you will have a direct impact on its course. As part of a fast-growing start up you will continuously cooperate/collaborate with other engineers, designers and analysts. Being efficient with communication is key.

As a senior engineer you have acquired deep knowledge of your craft and are comfortable making technical decisions based on cost-benefit analysis in the context of the task at hand. You feel ownership towards the code you write keeping it as clean, simple and robust as possible. You like acquiring as well as sharing knowledge and mentoring others.

About the client:

DESCRIPTION

My client is a start-up in the InsurTech sector. Their mission is to make insurance easier and frictionless, using machine learning tech to digitise the insurance value chain.

Their team’s head office is in London, as well as offices in Warsaw and from remote locations all around the world.

REQUIREMENTS

· At least 5 years of commercial experience, ideally in a fast- growing start-up environment

· Previously operated in a senior capacity and mentored or coached other engineers

· Fundamental knowledge and understanding of cloud platforms, primarily AWS and their services

· Working knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform

· Experience with network security and networking technologies and with system, security, and network monitoring tools

· Experience with security toolchains embedded into CI/CD pipelines, GitHub

· Experience with working with distributed/event-driven systems

· Detailed technical knowledge of database and operating system security

Tech stack:

· Cloud provider: AWS

· Programming languages: Golang/Python/Node/Bash

· CI/CD: Codeship/CodeBuild/CodePipeline

· IaaC: Terraform

· Databases: RDBMS (MySQL/PostgreSQL) / NoSQL (DynamoDB)

· AWS services: Lambda, RDS, SQS, SNS, SES, ElastiCache, API Gateway, Elastic

· Beanstalk, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Glue, Athena, and many more

Senior DevOps engineer | Contract | London

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