Senior DevOps Engineer
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| Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
| Location | Croydon |
| Area | Greater London, UK |
| Sector | ITMedia |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | Andy Wilson |
| Job Ref | AW9252 |
- Description
- Lloyd Recruitment Services are excited to be working with a leading media and events company based in the Croydon area. They are currently recruiting for aSenior DevOps Engineer to join the team!
The role holder will work collaboratively with our software engineers to deploy and operate systems, help automate and streamline operations and processes, help troubleshoot issues within multiple environments and also help improve and secure the systems that keep the back-end infrastructure running smoothly
The role holder will be responsible for the configuration and on-going management of the companies cloud PaaS/IaaS, including working with platforms such as WordPress configured on AWS
The role holder will work collaboratively with the company’s software engineers to deploy and operate systems, help automate and streamline operations and processes, help troubleshoot issues within multiple environments and also help improve and secure the systems that keep the back-end infrastructure running smoothly
The DevOps team is building and maintaining the next generation micro service API’s, WordPress management plugins, performance monitoring platform and systems automation tools around Amazon Web Services, therefore, the successful candidate must have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in developing, deploying and maintaining large Amazon AWS based SaaS solution to be considered for this position.
Key accountabilities:
Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production systems, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of these systems
Collaborating with teams who are provisioning infrastructure in a DevOps environment
Build, release and configuration management of production systems
Pre-production Acceptance Testing to help assure the quality of our products or services
System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains
Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements
Evaluate new technology options and vendor products
Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions
Working with other IT, applications and business intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability
Skills & competencies
Interpersonal skills:
Strong influencing skills with the ability to influence and negotiate for time and resources at all levels
Evidence of success in building and managing relationships with high level stakeholders
Organisational awareness with the ability to operate with confidence and credibility across all functions of the Company
IT, administrative and organisational skills:
Experience with security controls i.e. VPNs, encryption & key/certificate management, endpoint protection, virtual firewalls/ACLs/NSGs, setting up bastion nodes, etc
Experience connecting cloud infrastructure to on-prem networks (VPNs, tunnelling, AD connectors, routing)
Experience in architecture/engineering of cloud-based distribution systems
Background in Distributed Systems, Databases, Security, Networking & Load Balancing, Monitoring, Scripting & Automation
Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines and to demonstrate an effective and resourceful approach to addressing issues
Judgement and analysis:
Sound judgement with the ability to interpret, analyse and disseminate complex, technical information
Must be able to make excellent strategic decisions for the design and build of services to AWS, evaluating the likely impact of alternative approaches, referring to software requirements, input from the Development leads and the existing source code base. Decision making in this role will have an impact on service availability, security, speed, team productivity and customer support. Therefore, personal judgement needs to be exercised in determining a course of action
Initiative:
Resourceful and purposeful, with initiative, drive and a strong desire to deliver exceptional results
Able to work autonomously through a wide variety of complex problems under own initiative, adopting system administration principles of networking & system administration required for robust, secure and scalable solutions
A team player both internally and externally
Communication skills:
Able to write technical software design specifications
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical terminology to non-technical people
Ensure configuration changes are well documented to assist in future maintenance
Qualifications and experience
Essential education/qualifications:
AWS: 2+ years’ experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security
DevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime Amazon AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools
Scripting Skills: Strong scripting and automation skills
Operating Systems: Windows and Linux system administration
Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Zabbix, Nagios)
Problem Solving: Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues
Desired skills (not essential but beneficial to have):
Programming Skills: Strong PHP and OO Programming skills, Working as a developer or ability to code PHP, C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript
DB Skills: Good database administration experience (Oracle, SQL Server)
Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development, project management methodologies
Version Control: Experience administrating version control systems such as SVN
Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP)
Our client has some excellent perks including 25 days of holiday per year (with the option to buy or sell), health plan and life insurance cover, Cycle 2 Work scheme, discounted gym memberships, retail discount vouchers and much more!
Due to the high volume of applications, Lloyd Recruitment Services can only contact shortlisted candidates
