Operations Engineer

The Operations Engineer has expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps, and is responsible for either being assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure help/assistance or more broadly working on organisational infrastructure within the centralised Ops Team from a Deployment and Monitoring perspective

Responsibilities

Working alongside a DevOps culture; Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc; Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs; Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform; Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally; Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices; Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime; Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products; Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure; Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/uat and Prod environments

Requirements

Expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps; Highly knowledgeable of AWS; Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker; Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members; Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions; Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting; Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu); Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation); Experience in configuration management tools; Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch; Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc