Job Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

Keeping the Lights On:

+ Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions to proactively identify and address issues.
+ Respond to incidents and troubleshoot production issues promptly.

Infrastructure Management:

+ Manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Packer.
+ Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient infrastructure.

Coaching and Mentoring:

+ Mentor junior team members and other developers on DevOps best practices.
+ Share knowledge and promote a culture of continuous learning.

Security:

+ Implement security best practices across the entire stack.
+ Collaborate with security team to address security concerns.

Developer Experience:

+ Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
+ Provide tools and documentation to streamline development and deployment

Our Technical Environment:

Our next generation payments platform has been developed using Java - specifically leveraging the Spring Boot framework Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS; using a mixture of containerization (Fargate) and vanilla EC2 Our systems are secure and highly available - we have implemented passive and active monitoring and incident escalation using a combination of Datadog, CloudWatch Logs and Metrics, Postman, and Pagerduty We utilise GraphQL (leveraging Apollo and Hasura) to open up our rich data model to internal and external stakeholders We develop frontend systems using the Vue, Angular, and Ionic frameworks We aggregate and analyze logs from all of our systems via the ELK stack Our operating system of choice is CentOS and our DevSecOps team is fanatical about security, monitoring, and patch management Our infrastructure is immutable and managed using IaC principles via Terraform We leverage build automation (specifically CircleCI), and we're working toward continuous deployment across all environments We take advantage of AWS services to meet our various technology requirements: PostgreSQL databases run on Aurora Serverless or Aurora clusters managed via RDS Redis clusters are managed via ElastiCache KMS provides managed security services AWS Lambda and API Gateway support our serverless infrastructure; DynamoDB is also an important part of our stack We utilise highly durable messaging technologies such as SQS, Kinesis, Amazon MQ and AWS EventBridge

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant Information technology industry experience. Minimum 4 years experience in a similar environment Solid working knowledge in managing cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) Understanding of security best practices in the context of web applications Understanding of internetworking concepts and protocols Linux Administration experience

Benefits

Generous salary package Gym subsidies Casual dress code Flexible working arrangements (

including work from home and remote

) Delicious office snacks Guidance and mentoring from leaders within the business Dynamic, positive work environment * Fantastic team culture