Devops Engineer - Sheffield - Platform Build - £70-80k
Summary
DevOps engineer on-site in Sheffield, working in an agile 'mission team' to build, run and speed up delivery of a platform on AWS and Kubernetes (with a NodeJS/TypeScript/React stack) for a fast-growing well-being tech company, using infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines and telemetry.
My client are growing rapidly and have successfully moved into new and larger premises to support their growth. This is just the start. They have a vision to disrupt their market and make a difference to human engagement. Started around 10 years ago but already working with global corporates and exciting SMEs. They have transformed the well being of over six million people.
The technology team is entering a period of growth. We are working on creating a technology platform that will transform the business. As a full stack engineer you will be responsible for shaping and implementing new features across a distributed NodeJS, TypeScript and React platform. For infrastructure we use AWS and Kubernetes alongside a modern DevOps stack.
Responsibilities
- Working as part of a cross functional “mission team” to drive DevOps practices, speed up our delivery and drive infrastructure changes.
- Getting involved with normal agile ceremonies that prepare, co-ordinate and reflect on the team’s throughput.
- Running, operating and caring for the platform that we build.
- Tracking and improving software delivery performance with the “four key metrics”
- Following great engineering practices with immutable infrastructure-as-code, short lead-time pipelines and detailed telemetry.
- Helping us build a generative team culture with high co-operation, shared risks, encouraged bridging and blame free post-mortem
Skills & Experience
- Able to contribute fresh ideas to the process.
- You love helping software engineers become better DevOps practitioners.
- Everything is immutable infrastructure-as-code in AWS or GCP.
- Provisioning and operating Kubernetes clusters.
- Maintenance of continuous delivery pipelines
- You care about alerting & monitoring (setup / operate / runbooks)
- You are always looking for areas to learn more about.
- You enjoy finding ways to remove risk and uncertainty in the development and deployment process.
You know how which levers accelerate delivery with the “4 key metrics”
- Multi-region operations & support
- Serverless architectural patterns
- Log aggregation (setup / operate / best practices)