Senior DevOps Engineer

• Work with Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to address
• Work with the Platform teams to improve the maturity of all components within the system, including ensuring High Availability, and adequate testing and DR plans
• Contribute to improving our CI/CD pipelines and providing patterns of deployment
• Assist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives
• Participate in tech-talks and team based learning to ensure knowledge is spread
• Document obsessively, relying on Playbooks/Runbooks and systems documentation to aid knowledge transfer

• Extensive experience of DevOps Engineering and operating a large scale platform
• Extensive experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web Services
• Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc
• Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS Aurora)
• Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads
• Experience with nginx or similar technologies
• Experience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar tools
• A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving 
• A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed, driven personality who asks questions and actively participates in discussions
• Good written and spoken English so you can present your ideas

• Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale
• Familiarity with kanban and agile development processes
• Experience with Docker and containerisation
• Familiarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, etc.

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