Job Title: DevOps Engineer (AWS focused)
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Salary: £65,000 per annum + excellent benefits and superb working environment
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent (37.5 hours per week)
Working Hours: 9.00am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday
The Company is an exciting established Technology company providing some of the largest businesses in the UK and globally with customer service and payment solutions. Their customers include some of the best known brands across the world in the UK, US and Australia.
Today, their aim is simple: To help their customers make every contact centre experience satisfying and secure for consumers. Come and discover what’s refreshingly different about them.
Their Culture:
They work in an award winning, colourful, dynamic and collaborative environment where you will find flexibility, an open plan office and excellent opportunities for career growth. Their cross-departmental teams work on exciting projects, releasing new technologies to a wide range of clients.
With over 250 colleagues spread across the globe, they are a friendly bunch with a lot of knowledge and exciting plans. They are serious about what they do, but they certainly have a sense of humour. They are brimming with friendly, energetic and creative individuals, who are proud to be a part of their unique success story.
Their values sit at the heart of their culture and are summarised below.
- They Encourage and support everyone to grow
- They Challenge, listen, and are open minded to change and suggestions from others.
- As trusted advisors, they use their Knowledge to solve challenges and deliver the best for clients
- They take personal Ownership to strive for excellence in whatever they do
- They are welcoming, embrace diversity and respect each other in a spirit of true Humanity
The Role:
They are growing rapidly and to support their success they are seeking an exceptional AWS focused DevOps Engineer to join their innovative and dynamic team. You will bring your passion and enthusiasm to work with a variety of their high-profile clients.
You will be responsible for maintaining and optimising a global infrastructure, improving operational efficiency and driving innovation. This is a fantastic opportunity to further advance your knowledge and career in Cloud Native with a development path towards a career as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
On a personal level, you will be a great team player with well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills and, above all, they’re looking for someone with a strong desire to learn and grow with them.
Key responsibilities:
- Involved in the day to day operation of their globally distributed hybrid infrastructure (Physical & Cloud-based)
- Development of strategies to maintain and enhance platform availability, operational efficiency and security posture
- Architecture and deployment of new cloud infrastructure to support business needs
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code as well as the CICD Pipeline utilised by all DevOps
- Research, evaluate and implement innovative technologies
Key Requirements:
Required Technical Skills
- Experience with AWS to architect and operate highly available, secure production services
- Experience with containers, especially Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, AWS EKS & ECS
- Experience with HashiCorp tooling (Terraform, Vault)
- Experience with configuration management frameworks and automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible
- Passion for the DevOps culture and principles
- Disciplined working practices
- Requires a knowledge of coding, coding techniques and demonstrable development experience in a chosen language
- Ability to work with API’s (system/RPC, REST)
Other skills / desirable:
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Splunk, Envoy)
- Experience with any RDBMS solutions (RDS, MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle)
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment tooling (CICD Pipeline, GitOps, Jenkins)
- Experience with Scripting and Automation (Bash, Python)
- Experience with Repositories (GIT / SVN)
- Comfortable working in and with dynamic environments
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday and increases with service
- Excellent Share Incentive Scheme
- Life insurance
- Simply Health scheme
- Access to group Bupa membership scheme
- Pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Employee Recognition schemes
- Free tea, coffee, fresh fruit and snacks
- Relaxation floor (lunch area, quiet room, pool table, Xbox)
- Well-being initiatives, such as in-house Reflexology and Sports Massage
- Discounted offers
- Team days and Volunteering events
- Christmas & summer company events
- Focused on education and training (conference attendance, higher education sponsorship)
- Thinking and Drinking sessions
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