Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Ignition you will play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing our infrastructure to support a highly reliable and scalable environment. You will work with cutting-edge technologies to ensure our systems remain robust secure and efficient enabling continuous deployment and high uptime for our services.

This role requires a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure automation and the ability to build and optimise tools for developer productivity. You will be tuning key components like Redis and Postgres managing Kubernetes and Terraform deployments and ensuring our AWS-based infrastructure is secure and compliant.

What your day to day will look like:

• Manage and optimise our Kubernetes-based infrastructure ensuring efficient and scalable deployment of services.
• Utilise Terraform to automate and manage our AWS infrastructure including EC2 RDS S3 and Route 53.
• Tune Redis and Postgres databases to ensure optimal performance reliability and scalability.
• Implement and manage edge caching strategies to enhance the performance of our services.
• Ensure the security and compliance of our infrastructure working closely with the security team to address potential vulnerabilities and maintain best practices.
• Build and maintain custom tooling to enhance developer productivity and streamline operations.
• Monitor and maintain a very high uptime (three nines) proactively addressing potential issues before they impact users.
• Develop and maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and ensure failover systems are in place and tested regularly.
• Support continuous deployment processes using Buildkite ensuring smooth and reliable delivery of updates.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to understand and support our stack contributing to the overall architecture and infrastructure strategy.

How we do it:

We build and operate a modular monolith Ruby on Rails application with a GraphQL API and a React/Apollo frontend. Our infrastructure runs on AWS and is managed using Kubernetes and Terraform.

We deploy to production frequently often multiple times per day using Buildkite. Reliability is a core focus and we actively invest in automation observability and process improvements to maintain high uptime while keeping on-call sustainable.

Qualifications :

What you need to succeed:

• 5-10 years of relevant professional experience in DevOps or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes Terraform and AWS services (EC2 RDS S3 Route 53 etc.).
• Strong expertise in tuning and optimising Redis and Postgres databases for high performance.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and the ability to collaborate effectively with backend engineers.
• Experience with Observability and Monitoring tools such as Datadog OpenTelemetry and Cloudwatch.
• Proven ability to manage and secure cloud-based infrastructure with a focus on maintaining high uptime and reliability.
• Experience with edge caching strategies and technologies.
• Familiarity with security best practices and compliance requirements in a cloud environment.
• Proficiency in building custom tools to enhance developer productivity.
• Understanding of Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and failover systems.
• Strong experience with continuous deployment pipelines particularly using Buildkite.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to proactively address potential issues in a complex environment.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience supporting Ruby on Rails applications in production.
• Exposure to caching layers or CDNs.
• Experience working in environments with defined uptime or SLA targets.
• Interest in reliability engineering automation or security.

Additional Information :

Why join us:

Join our global SaaS scale-up company where we foster a collaborative open and transparent culture and work without ego. Our team comprises curious and intelligent colleagues who embrace challenges. Heres what we offer:

• Competitive salary package plus employee stock options from day one
• Annual education allowance to support your professional development
• Employee recognition program that celebrates impact and contribution
• Quarterly wellness allowance to support your physical and mental wellbeing
• Complimentary subscriptions to Headspace and our Employee Assistance Program 
• Flexible working supported by work-from-office reimbursement and a mobile allowance to help you set up safely at home
• Work from anywhere for up to one month each year with business approval
• Financial Planning allowance (after all we are in the accounting business!)
• Vehicle Leasing Benefits
• Paid parental leave
• An extra paid day off for your birthday plus paid volunteering leave

What to expect from our recruitment process:

• A friendly introductory conversation with our Talent team to learn more about you and share additional detail about the role
• An interview with the Hiring Manager focused on your experience strengths and approach to work
• An interview with key stakeholders to explore collaboration and role fit
• A final conversation with the Head of the function to discuss career growth and the broader business context
• Reference and background checks following acceptance of a verbal offer

We may use AI enabled tools to support parts of our recruitment process such as improving efficiency in scheduling and note taking. These tools are used responsibly and never replace human decision-making all hiring decisions are made by our people.

We aim to keep the process transparent respectful of your time and as smooth as possible.

We encourage you to apply even if you dont meet every requirement experience comes in many forms and diverse perspectives make our teams stronger.

Ignition is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process or need materials in an alternative format please contact

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time