Senior DevOps Engineer

You will bring strong DevOps expertise and hands-on Kubernetes experience to help shape the platform strategy. You will take ownership of initiatives from concept to delivery, make informed decisions, and proactively improve systems and processes. You will collaborate with talented engineers and help foster a culture of reliability, security, and efficiency. You will play a transformative role by evangelising DevOps, security, and reliability principles, and by joining a team of experienced engineers who enjoy tackling difficult problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior DevOps expertise and leadership across Engineering at all layers of the stack
• Evangelise DevOps, security and reliability engineering across the Engineering team-at-large
• Provision resilient infrastructure across multiple regions and AZs
• Build compliant, reliable and featureful developer platforms centered on container orchestration
• Enable Continuous Delivery and Deployment capabilities using CICD pipelines and GitOps tooling
• Enable shifting left on security and testing, and facilitate progressive delivery in production
• Measure and improve developer productivity and experience across the SDLC
• Cost optimise infra through rightsizing and creating ephemeral, on-demand environments
• Proactively monitor for security and reliability using Observability tooling including SIEM, APM, tracing, infrastructure metrics, logs and dashboards
• Durably engineer away toil

Requirements

• Production experience with Kubernetes container orchestration platform including cluster lifecycle, API, Operator pattern, Helm charts, addons and CNCF landscape components
• Writing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform against AWS, GCP with modularisation, multi-environment branching strategies and state manipulation
• Provisioning cloud infrastructure to AWS, GCP through Kubernetes controllers such as Crossplane, ACK, KRO
• Building cloud-native container and serverless applications on Kubernetes and Service Meshes such as Istio, Linkerd, App Mesh
• Writing Helm charts to package and deliver application stacks into production
• Delivering applications and infrastructure continuously using CI/CD tools such as GitlabCI, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and GitOps using ArgoCD, FluxCD
• Troubleshooting and debugging applications using Observability tooling such as Splunk, DataDog
• Managing ephemeral secrets and credentials using Hashicorp Vault
• Managing least privileged access to cloud resources using TPAM solutions such as Hashicorp Boundary

Benefits

• Hybrid working and option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up home office space
• $1,000 Learning & Development budget
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Extra day off for birthday
• 16 weeks fully-paid enhanced parental leave
• Private Health Insurance (Vitality)
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance covering 4 times salary
• Cycle to Work Scheme