Devops Engineer

Description:

We are now working to realise that vision. Our ambitious 3-year strategy sets out to shift us from a traditional IT function with scattered digital and data expertise into a more cohesive user experience-first, product-based approach. As part of a wider organisation change agenda (currently called the Organisation of the Future), we are looking to DDaT to facilitate a lighter process footprint aligned with Agile values, and a digital ready and data enabled workplace.

About the role

This is a technical hands-on role, the successful candidate will be part of a small team whose primary function will be to enable, accelerate and support the developers and testers working on a US/UK multi-tenancy Adobe AEM platform, including supporting on AWS and GCP.

The role will be based remotely with a requirement to be in our Farringdon office for a minimum of 2 times a month.

In this role, you will:

• Provide System Admin support to Save the Children UK with a particular focus on system performance and tuning and supporting User Acceptance testing of its AEM platform.
• Managing, maintaining and patching our cloud infrastructure and availability of services through container-orchestration.
• Ensure that sufficient documentation is in place for all hardware systems in the Integration and Staging environments to enable existing and new team members to support Save the Children UK infrastructure.
• Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Save the Children resources in order to keep costs low and ensure safety in the workplace. Pro-actively pursue opportunities continuously to reduce costs and increase efficiency of the server support function.
• Ensure a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development to support our growing number of global users and services.
• Work with the 3rd Line infrastructure teams to ensure that all systems and support are aligned with technical and business requirements.
• Manage the provisioning/building/configuring/maintenance of environments using automation where possible
• Keep abreast of new developments in the provisioning / configuration / deployment / monitoring of environments to help shape our DevOps roadmap
• Other duties as required in line with skills, experience and role.