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

Skills Required