DevOps Engineer

Position Overview: 

Do you love building ⚙️ products people love?  As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working closely with our development teams, and you will be a vital part of Ingresso engineering. You will be a key person who will plan and shape the route DevOps takes for the platform. This position will see you create the best tools for our developers to code efficiently and provide a rock-solid foundation that our applications and services can rely on. As you grow in your role, you'll have the opportunity to drive key decisions around technology and build up your automation skillset.

Location: This role can be performed 100% remotely anywhere in the UK, at our office in Twyford, or a hybrid version of in-office and remote. 

Reports to: Head of Engineering, Distribution

Travel ✈️ Requirement: None

What you’ll be working on: 

• Participate in the teams' daily stand-ups 
• Maintain and improve container platform with latest best practices/tools 
• Ensure and enhance security, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and disaster recovery across our platform 
• Work towards complete infrastructure as code and automation 
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure platform services take reliability, scaling, and monitoring into account 
• Be responsible for platform scaling to meet workload demands and spikes 
• Be the point of contact for security projects with the accesso InfoSec team 
• Ensure developers have the required tools to ease deployment of services to the platform 
• Continuously improve the efficiency of the CI/CD pipeline 
• Build, enhance, and participate in monitoring our internal systems' performance 

Technologies 💻 you may work with: 

• GCP, AWS, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: CircleCI, Flux, Helm (Operator)
• Python
• Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana
• MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Terraform
• Prometheus, Grafana 

What you bring to the role: 

• Minimum 3-year professional experience in this or a similar role. Note: ‘years of experience’ may not always be the best measure for your ability to succeed in this role. If the below bullet points feel like you, please consider applying – even if you don’t have, say, X years in seat.
• Experience with AWS and GCP, including basic networking and IAM knowledge 
• Hands-on experience of Linux/Unix 
• Experience with Kubernetes, preferably as a cluster operator (using self-managed or managed clusters) 
• Knowledge or experience with Helm and Prometheus 
• Knowledge of Istio or service mesh advantageous but not mandatory 
• Working knowledge with Python or Bash scripting 
• Comfortable with Terraform (infrastructure as code) 
• Experience implementing CI/CD 
• Good communication skills, analytical, inquisitive, and an autodidact 

*If you don’t have all the qualifications listed, don’t worry! We understand everyone’s career path is unique, and still encourage you to apply if you feel this role is aligned with your career trajectory.  

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package including an annual bonus opportunity, because your hard work deserves recognition; 
• 8-days of paid bank holiday leave and 26-days of paid annual leave (paid leave increases with tenure) – so you can go “OOO” and take that vacation you’ve been dreaming of 😎;  
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time Off to contribute to causes close to your heart. Making a difference, made easy. 
• Inclusive Family Benefits, including a $7,500 benefit for surrogacy, adoption, and fertility. Because family planning should come with support 🫶; 
• Robust health insurance scheme with the opportunity to participate in private medical scheme after satisfactory performance;   
• Matching pension scheme (up to 8%) for a secure financial future; 
• Gain unlimited access to Udemy for Business to support ongoing learning and career development; 
• Enjoy a flexible work schedule that aligns with your team’s schedule ⏰.