Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Overview: 

Do you love building ⚙️ products people love?  We are looking for a smart and motivated devops engineer to join our accesso Freedom team.  You will assist the development team to fully automate, deploy and test new infrastructure and applications to ensure operational reliability. Input and implement deployment strategies with principle and architects. Collaborate with team members and own implementations. You will join a growing team supporting a new cloud native SaaS product collaborating with development and operational teams such as SRE’s, DevSecOps, and support to improve the platform and deliver requirements consistently & incrementally.

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: IT Manager, Engineering-POS Solutions

Travel ✈️ Requirement: None

What you’ll be working on: 

•    Implement and manage cloud resources to support SaaS application deployments which are designed to be scalable, secure, performant, manageable and cost effective 
•    Ensure that all aspects of the implementation are scripted and repeatably deployable through Infrastructure as Code practices 
•    Share the responsibility for maintaining clean, efficient CI/CD pipelines with Developers and QA 
•    Use an established release process to release to Staging and Production environments 
•    Share the responsibility for building observability into the platform with Developers, QA and Site Reliability Engineers 
•    Identification and Resolution of platform and pipeline issues/problems as they occur as well as proactively looking to improve the reliability and performance  
•    Participate in retrospectives after events occur ensuring plans are put in place to prevent repeat occurrences 
•    Work with security team to identify and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues 
•    Ensure data storage and services are deployed in accordance with company security policies and cloud best practices 
•    Enhance and participate in DR dry runs 
•    Work with other members of the teams to exchange and build knowledge 
•    Work in an agile, rapid development environment where effective communication is paramount 
•    Collaborate to build and maintain an effective backlog to plan and track tasks according to prioritization 
•    Chaos engineering practices 
•    Participate in the change management process 
•    Focus on lean & improving DORA metrics 

What you bring to the role: 

• Several years of current experience at both design and hands-on levels with Azure cloud infrastructure - 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.
• Professional experience with RBAC, key vault, VMs, VNETs, VPNs, NSGs, Git, Ubuntu WSL2, PowerShell, Azure CLI and Data platforms (SQL, ADF) 
• Kubernetes deployment and management experience, with associated toolsets such as Kubernetes CLI, Helm, terraform, packer and ansible. 
• Network management within Kubernetes with NGINX, service mesh, policy management, WAF 
• Infrastructure monitoring with the Grafana stack (Loki, Prometheus, Tempo). 
• Experience in load/ performance testing and tuning 
• Vulnerability management, such as Trivy or Kubescape 
• Azure Container registry management  
• Azure certifications desirable 
• Experience with High Availability, DR/Business Continuity strategies   
• Must possess a positive attitude at work and make contributions to a healthy company culture 
• Strong problem-solving skills and logical troubleshooting approach  

⭐️  Bonus points if you have: 

• Microsoft Azure Administrator / Architect or other relevant certification 
• Kubernetes Certified Administrator

*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, or currency equivalent, 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⏰.