Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS Ecosystem | Boutique Software House
Our client is a software house providing real-time ticketing to a niche sector with a household name and long-term clients. They were established in 2014 by a joint venture between two institutions one from their industry and one from the technical world. Their applications are highly transactional with 3 million transactions taking place through their software per year with 7 million registered customers in their database.
They have circa 30 staff, more than half being technically hands-on and their office is near London Bridge where you will attend 1-2 days per week.
About the role:
Our client is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer with ample experience to manage and expand a dependable, scalable AWS environment that supports their software applications. As the only Platform/DevOps Engineer in the company, you will have direct communication with the CTO, allowing you to influence the technical direction and project roadmap for all platform-related matters. This is a remarkable opportunity to leave your mark and guide the technical direction of the company. Their AWS-built platform is slowly transitioning into an AWS cloud-native environment, making use of AWS's tooling instead of third-party products. The software applications are written in Scala, Node.JS, and React Native, but a development background is not necessary.
Tech stack:
- AWS
- Docker Swarm
- Terraform
- Linux Admin in Debian & Ubuntu
- Microservices environment
- Jenkins and GitHub Actions for CI/CD (moving away from Jenkins slowly)
- Datadog & CloudWatch for monitoring
- Ansible used a little for config management
- Redis cache
- Rabbit messaging
- Scripting skills: especially Bash, optionally Python, Perl, Ruby etc.
- Aurora DB (or MySQL, Percona DB, MariaDB) administration
- Networking, firewalling, load-balancing
- Monitoring solutions like Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic etc.
- Load/stress testing tools
The CTO wants you to have an "automation first" mindset, seeking opportunities to improve and implement scripts. He encourages you to challenge the status quo by asking questions like, "Why aren't we doing this?" or "Why aren't we using this tool?" Sounds like a great culture, right?
Having an interest in security would be beneficial too. It's important to review the platform with a security perspective, collaborate with the outsourced security provider, ensure compliance, and prepare for ISO 27001 certification.
Projects:
- Jenkins reports migrating to AWS Lambdas
- GitHub Actions move - currently, images are pushed over Docker but consolidated to AWS ECR
- Rabbit cluster AWS
- AWS Fargate
- Utilize more of the AWS platform
- Mobile apps pipelines to build in CI/CD
Benefits:
- Vitality health
- 25 days accrue extra up to 30 days
- Buy and sell holiday
- Free gym any fitness first
- Rewards gateway platform
- MacBook Pro
- Beer and pizza nights and funded pub trips
Prism has exclusive interview slots available for this unique role. If interested, please contact us as soon as possible for the best chance of success.
Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS Ecosystem | Boutique Software House
