Lead Operations Engineer

OPERATIONS ENGINEER

The Role

Were looking for someone who has a passion for technology SRE and DevOps a hunger to learn and the professionalism required in a mission-critical role. Our close-knit team of operations engineers automates everything: system administration continuous integration deployments monitoring metrics and tooling. They enjoy working on complex problems with others and are not afraid to span the stack from the network all the way to building and extending tools.

As an operations engineer youll be responsible for defining innovating and improving our CI/CD process. Youll make sure an idea flows from a developers workstation to production in a clean predictable and automated its in production its in front of users all over the world. You must have an analytical mindbe highly organisedand possessstrong Linux skills. Ideally you will have experience in production operations and youll be looking for the next step.

Responsibilities

• Building monitoring and maintaining a 100% cloud environment (AWS)
• Helping to define SLOs and measure SLIs
• Developing tooling that enhances the lives and happiness of the Dev and Ops team alike
• Investigating new technologies that advance the observability and performance of our platform
• Taking ownership of tasks communicating ideas and decisions throughout the team and ensuring tasks are fully completed with high quality

Requirements

• Strong Unix/Linux administration skills including understanding TCP/IP networking scripting (Bash or Python)
• Experience with containers and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and related tooling such as Helm.
• Proven experience in an agile fast-paced and product-oriented environment as an SRE or related DevOps role
• A dislike of ad-hoc or manual processes enjoyment ofautomating them away and experience of doing this using one or more of Ansible Puppet Chef Salt etc.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery (tooling and approach) and experience with tools such as Jenkins GitHub actions
• Participation in a 24/7/365 operations on-call rotation responsible for mission-critical systems
• Strong teamwork written and oral communication skills

Desirable Attributes

• An understanding of modern infrastructure design & administration experience of using AWS Google Cloud Microsoft Azure or one of the other IaaS providers (Linode Digital Ocean OpenStack VMWare XEN) and using Terraform CloudFormation boto or other orchestration tools
• An appreciation for security both in design & operation
• Ability to work in a small team part of a larger organisation capable of independent work & working with distributed team members
• Experience of or a strong desire to be part of a larger engineering organisation
• Experience building operating maintaining & scaling RabbitMQ/AMQP & Postgres