Devops Engineer

Description:

As DevOps Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be a hands-on engineer tasked with solving challenges to continually improve the 4-key DevOps measures: lead-time, deployment-frequency, mean-time-to-recover and change-failure-rate within their squad(s). This is achieved through the following deliverables -

• Monitoring & Alerting: implementing continued enhancements to drive improvements for MTTD and MTTR

• Automating Release Management: automating (CI/ CD), integrating and automating non-functional testing to accelerate deployment-frequency and lead-time

• Monitoring Error Budgets: operational oversight of SLOs and identifying actions to maintain. Independently identify service hotspots and trends, proposing strategies to improve

• Operational Service: part of production support rota for the tribe, alongside development engineers. Contributing to blameless post-mortems and implementing root cause fixes.

• Automating Toil: remove the manual tasks required to operate the product

• DevSecOps Champion: automate and integrate security testing into the deployment pipeline and vulnerability management

• Provide Segregation & Assurance: the independence of the role allows to take on tasks where segregation is required (e.g. the final deployment to production) and provide the necessary oversight on release quality

About you

What will you bring to the role?

• A development or platform engineering background

• Knowledge and/ or experience of digital transformation

• Experience of technical skills in some of the following

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Pipelines tools such as Jenkins and Gitlab CI/CD

  • Scripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Python, bash)

  • Modern monitoring skills and best practices using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace

  • Knowledge of networks and routing

  • Knowledge of Digital focused technologies (Digital platforms, Native apps, API, services and containers)

• A track record of continuous improvement including challenging and developing both yourself and the team

• Knowledge and understanding of Agile/ DevOps software development methodologies