DevOps Engineer

Collinson is the global privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences loyalty and customer engagement and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass the worlds original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1500 lounges and travel experiences including dining retail sleep and spa in over 650 airports in 148 countries helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the worlds leading payment networks over 1400 banks 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2200 global colleagues.

As a DevOps Engineer youll play a key role in building and maintaining a robust scalable and reliable 0-downtime platform. Youll work hands-on with a recently kick-started greenfield initiative with modern infrastructure and automation tools to support our engineering teams.

This is a great opportunity to work with a forward-thinking team and the freedom to approach problems with fresh thinking embedding AI and automation and helping shape our cloud-native journey.

If youre passionate about automation cloud infrastructure and delivering high-quality production-grade platforms this role offers the chance to make a real impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-On Development - Design implement and optimise AWS infrastructure through hands-on development using Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Automation & CI/CD - Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate fast secure and seamless deployments.
• Platform Reliability - Ensure high availability scalability and resilience of our platform leveraging managed services
• Monitoring & Observability - Implement and manage proactive observability using DataDog and other tools to monitor system health performance and security making sure we can see and fix issues before they impact users
• Cloud Security & Best Practices - Apply cloud and security best practices including patching and secure configuration of networking encryption (at rest and in transit) secrets and identity/access management
• Continuous Improvement - Contribute ideas and solutions to improve our DevOps processes
• AI & Future Tech - We want to push the boundaries of AI-driven development - if you have ideas on how to embed AI into our DevOps processes youll have the space to explore them.

Experience

• Tech stack - We use Terraform Terragrunt Helm Python Bash AWS (EKS Lambda EC2 RDS/Aurora) Linux OS & Github Actions. Youre comfortable with all of these and have strong hands-on experience with Terraform and IaC principles CI/CD and the AWS ecosystem.
• Proven experience with Networking (VPC Subnets Security Groups API Gateway Load Balancing WAF) and Cloud configuration (Secrets Manager IAM KMS)
• Comfortable with Kubernetes ArgoCD Isitio & Deployment strategies (blue/green & canary)
• Familiarity with Cloud Security services such as Security Hub Guard Duty Inspector and vulnerability management/patching
• Observability Mindset - You believe in measuring everything. Youve worked with DataDog (or similar) to ensure teams have visibility into platform health and security.
• Experience with embedding AI into DevOps processes is advantageous

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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