An exciting opportunity to join an established UK based company with 20% year on year growth rate. A rapidly growing UK based software (SaaS) company dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions for the logistics and transportation industry. With ongoing investment in new products, we offer the excitement and innovation of a start-up coupled with the stability and benefits of an established business.

Roles and Responsibilities

• You will pioneer our DevOps team in India  
• You will help us to adopt Kubernetes across teams  
• You will support us in the transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices  
• Create and maintain our pipelines  
• Mentor and develop the other DevOps engineers  
• You will ensure our entire infrastructure is codified and can be provisioned with a single command 
•  Continuously improve DevOps engineering practices  
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking,  teamwork, self-organization, and diversity  
• Managing performance and provide constructive feedback, helping the members of your team become the best they  can  
• Define your career path and embrace the opportunity to grow and learn  
• Benefit from working in a multi-disciplinary team, that uses modern software and product development techniques,  and values continuous improvement 
• You will report to the Head of DevOps

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• 6+ years in a DevOps role  
• BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience  
• You are hands-on (this is a hands-on role)  
• Superior knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure, in particular AWS  
• Outstanding experience deploying and managing Kubernetes/Docker clusters  
• Master of Infrastructure as Code, in particular with Terraform  
• Deep knowledge of New Relic and monitoring best practices  
• Demonstrable knowledge of microservices oriented architectures  
• Familiarity with Multi Region Topologies, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Proxy Servers, SNS, SQS, DNS, CDNs  and WAFs  
• Capable of architecting frictionless security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure 
• Good knowledge of configuration management tools, preferably Ansible  
• Vast experience with build tools, especially with Jenkins  
• Guardian of secrets, hands-on experience with KMS secrets manager and EKS integration  
• Custodian of artifacts, experience with Amazon EKS, ECR, Code Artifact  
• Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores  
• Experience working with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL 
• Experienced working in/with Lean, DevOps culture successfully.

What are we expecting from you? 

• 7+ years in a DevOps role, 3+ years as DevOps Lead or similar 
• BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience
•  You are hands-on (this is a hands-on role) 
• Superior knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure, in particular AWS
• Outstanding experience deploying and managing Kubernetes/Docker clusters
• Master of Infrastructure as Code, in particular with Terraform 
• Deep knowledge of New Relic and monitoring best practices 
• Demonstrable knowledge of microservices oriented architectures
•  Familiarity with Multi Region Topologies, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Proxy  Servers, SNS, SQS, DNS, CDNs and WAFs 
• Capable of architecting frictionless security and compliance best practices into  global cloud infrastructure
• Good knowledge of configuration management tools, preferably Ansible
• Vast experience with build tools, especially with Jenkins 
• Guardian of secrets, hands-on experience with KMS secrets manager and EKS  integration 
• Custodian of artifacts, experience with Amazon EKS, ECR, Code Artifact
• Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores
• Experience working with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL 
• Experienced working in/with Lean, DevOps culture 

Nice to have 

• Solid knowledge of Nginx and Apache HTTP Server  
• You deployed on production Apache Pulsar  
• You deployed on production, and upgraded Apache Open Search  
• Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores. 
• At easy using Python and/or Shell scripting.
• Possessing any AWS certification will be an added advantage.

We Offer

• The opportunity to be part of an international team. 
• You will be able to test and experiment with a lot of new stuff.
• A unique chance to gain a ton of experience in a real environment, working with a leading British company.

Working Conditions

Hybrid work model with four days working from the Kochi office and Fridays as work-from-home. Employees can choose from multiple shift options : 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and 11:00 am to 8:00 pm.