DevOps Engineer

Salary: £120,000 per year

DevOps Engineer – Brighton and Remote working – £120,000 salary (£100k Package)

My client are a leading eCommerce marketplace platform company who have their European Headquarters in Central Brighton. They are looking for 2 DevOps Engineers to join their team of 300 people working remotely with a day a week in the Brighton office.

They are looking for 2 x Mid or Senior DevOps Engineers paying up to £90k salaries due to continued growth of their DevOps team.

The Role:

Part of the Product & Engineering function, the DevOps Engineering team is responsible for delivering features to the business safer and sooner. This team use cutting edge techniques and technologies to automate previously manual processes. They use delivery and monitoring pipelines to maintain a self-healing system that can respond to incidents without bothering humans. They tie technology decisions directly to key goals for the business. This team are keen to hire DevOps Engineers who enjoy an Infrastructure as Code approach to their work.

A keen investment in technology is at the forefront of the company’s mission with a clear vision of what their product should be. They take a cloud native approach to development and infrastructure with lots of room for experimentation and improvement. They foster a culture of quality and openness within the team and provide many routes for continued professional development.

Role Responsibilities:

• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• This team maintains all of the test and delivery pipelines that run their automated test suites, build deployable packages of the software, and eventually deploy that software without human interaction. This includes their service which connects Github + Cloudbuild and manages their deployment environments.
• Quality Assurance and Test Automation
• They maintain the functional tests that run browser based-interaction to simulate a user interacting with our applications to check our code is working as expected.
• Service Level Objective reporting and compliance
• They maintain all of the monitoring and alerting that ensures our services are meeting key business objectives. We build manual processes and automated responses to these alerts.
• Virtual server infrastructure resource management and maintenance
• They maintain the automation that describes the state of our static infrastructure and deploy changes / patch their servers.

Skills:

You’d make a great start in the role if you have knowledge of the following:

• An understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience programming and/or writing scripts, self-taught or otherwise
• Experience with cloud based infrastructure, Kubernetes etc.
• Strong understanding of computer networking
• Experience running Linux in a containerised environment and an understanding of containerisation
• Able to work to a high standard in an autonomous manner, whilst also contributing to success of the entire team
• Knowledge of the CI/CD processes and experience of using CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GoCD etc)

Benefits:

They support their staff and their careers in every way they can.

25 days annual leave + bank holidays, 4% employer contributory pension scheme and private healthcare from your start date.

You will also have access to their Employee Awareness Pathway, a cycle to work scheme, weekly deliveries of fresh fruit and Friday afternoon social team.

If this might be of interest, then please get in touch to find out more.

Please apply with your CV to arrange a discussion regarding this exciting job opportunity?