AWS DevOps Engineer – UK

Solas IT Recruitment; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

DevOps Engineer – Remote from UK

Due to continued growth, they are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their friendly team. You will help provide internal users with tools to facilitate operational excellence in managing their SaaS vision.

Excellent Benefits: Healthcare, Pension, Life Insurance, Work from Home.

The Role:

• Engineer and automate their SaaS solution for security, reliability and scale.
• Create and/or improve the tools that enable observability on availability and performance of cloud services.
• Apply DevOps principles and practices to speed-up the delivery of change to the SaaS environment.
• Collaborate with application engineering teams in solving business needs with provided cloud services.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer
• Experience of deploying and supporting applications in cloud environments (preferably AWS, but Azure and GCP also considered).
• Extensive experience of working with “Infrastructure-As-Code” tools, in particular - Ansible, Terraform and Packer. Experience with other IaC tools will also be considered.
• Strong scripting knowledge in Powershell or Python.
• Experience with Docker and building Docker container applications
• Experience with Cloud networking, such as AWS VPC, Security Groups, Load Balancer, ASG, as well as cloud security, such as IAM and WebACL.
• Familiarity with ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, or other log-aggregation / monitoring solutions.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools such as Team Foundation Server, Azure DevOps, GitLab or Jenkins.
• Solid Windows, IIS and SQL administration knowledge.
• Understanding of Docker / containerization technologies.
• Experience of Agile / Scrum methodology essential.
• Increase the overall knowledge of Cloud / DevOps methodologies across the organisation.

Bonus but not essential:

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, and experience transitioning applications to a container-based, Microservice, model.
• Previous experience of delivering change in a regulated environment.
• Ability to have a positive impact on team members and communicate openly and directly to individuals or groups at all levels.
• Previous software development or quality assurance experience would be a significant advantage.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Staffing and Recruiting, Information Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting