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.