platform(devops) engineer

We are looking to hire an Engineer to join our global team in Technology.

This is a challenging, fast-paced and exciting environment, with plenty of opportunities to influence and grow the technology area.

We are looking for an Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team to proactively ensure the stability, resilience and scale of our core on-prem and cloud infrastructure

The Engineer will play a pivotal role alongside all areas of technology to ensure that technical solutions are aligned across teams, deliver value to the customers as well as ensuring consistent monitoring, logging and alerting.

The key values that we strive towards in the Technology are:

• Ownership

• Continuous Improvement Mindset

• Trust

• Honesty

Key Responsibilities: 

• Take ownership and pride in the work you deliver, ensure what is delivered is of quality and takes into account security, capacity and performance

• Continuously iterate and improve on existing technologies whilst keeping up-to-date with the latest trends to keep us ahead of the game

• Foster a culture of open exchange of ideas, innovation and continuous improvements

• Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate

• Improve the team skill set by increasing and sharing knowledge thus setting the benchmark of quality and precision engineering

• Understand the importance of and be a strong advocate for non-functionals eg. monitoring, alerting, logging etc

 Qualifications: 

List of skills you need:

• Attention to detail, dig into understanding what is actually needed rather than what may be requested

• Proven communication and collaborative skills while working with internal and 3rd parties

• Ability to deep dive into problems to find the underlying issues
  Take lead on live production issues

• Proficient in Agile practices

• Advocating and practising continuous improvement and handling challenging situations

• Dealing with changes on a daily basis

• Ability to demonstrate the value of changes introduced

Technical Skills:

• OS Administration - Linux - RHEL or debian based flavours

• Cloud - Experience with any major cloud providers e.g. Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, AWS

• CI/CD - Gitlab-ci, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Fluxcd, Hashicorp toolkit

• Web servers - Nginx, Apache

• Caching - Redis, Varnish

• Messaging queues - Kafka, Rabbitmq

• Monitoring and Observability - ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos

• Traffic Management - Haproxy, Keepalived, Cloud Load Balancing, etc.
  Scripting - bash, python

• Virtualisation and Orchestration - docker, kubernetes

• Databases - Cloud Managed MySql

• APIs - REST, JSON