Senior DevOps Engineer

Sofia - Bulgaria

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Financial Times (FT) is one of the worlds leading business news and information organisations. We are recognised globally for our authority integrity and accuracy. We provide a broad range of essential services including news comment data and analysis to the growing audience of internationally minded business people.

We believe the Financial Times is a great place to work. Our technical stack is modern and forward-looking built on cloud-native microservices architectures and a mix of open source and commercial technologies. Our product development practices are equally progressive - data-driven customer-focused and empowering engineers to make meaningful contributions. Engineers have the autonomy to choose appropriate tools and influence how we build and operate systems. Importantly we also prioritise a healthy work-life balance.

Position Summary

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Product & Technology department of a growing business and globally recognised brand.

Working within teams based in Sofia and in collaboration with colleagues in London you will play a key role in building maintaining and evolving the infrastructure that underpins FT Core platforms. This includes provisioning maintaining and upgrading systems in AWS as well as working extensively with Kubernetes and related tooling.

You will contribute to the design and operation of reliable scalable platforms that support business-critical capabilities. This role suits someone comfortable navigating an evolving technical landscape who enjoys improving systems and processes and contributing to shared engineering knowledge.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with team members and provide support within your area of expertise
Manage and evolve the teams cloud infrastructure (primarily in AWS)
Build maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines
Contribute to the design of platform architecture tooling and release processes used across Product & Technology
Support provisioning maintenance and upgrades of infrastructure and platform components
Contribute to company-wide processes frameworks and engineering best practices

Candidate Profile:

Essential

Strong written and spoken English
Solid Linux knowledge (intermediate or higher)
Experience with AWS cloud services
5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role
Proactive mindset with strong ownership and initiative

Desirable

Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes EKS/ECS Kafka/MSK)
Experience managing Kubernetes manifests (Helm Kustomize etc.)
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI Jenkins GitLab CI etc.)
Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus stack AWS CloudWatch Grafana)
Experience with logging solutions (Fluentd Fluent Bit Splunk)
Experience with secret management (Vault Sealed Secrets Doppler etc.)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (Cloudformation Terraform Ansible eksctl etc.)
Bash scripting skills

Would be considered an advantage

Deeper experience with the Prometheus ecosystem (Prometheus Thanos Alertmanager Grafana)
Networking knowledge
Experience with Service Mesh technologies
Experience with DNS management (Route53 or similar)

Whats in it for you

Annual bonus scheme
25 days paid leave
24/7 Employee Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Enhanced Parental Leave policy
Food Allowance
Multisport Card
Comprehensive in-house training and external training programs (subject to approval)

Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion

We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions email and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Further information

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Required Experience:

Senior IC