Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS

Who we are

 

Our client is one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor.
You will be a part of the Platform Engineering Team and work closely with business stakeholders, feature teams and the Platform/DevOps teams across distributed teams.
As a DevOps Engineer you will help drive quality outcomes for our client programmes and enabling engineering teams by providing capabilities focused on the supportability and reliability of microservices software. The role ensures both engineering and operationally focused teams work seamlessly as one combined end-to-end engineering team. The role requires an ability to work with a diverse range of internal and external technical and engineering teams, to ensure a highly reliable, automated engineering & operational capability exists.

 

What you'll be doing

 

• Delivering well-designed, scalable, maintainable features, resolving complex end-to-end issues and defining new approaches where applicable
• Designing and implementing measures to improve development processes by identifying obvious deficiencies and providing creative simple solutions to fix and help improve throughput
• Leading code reviews with an emphasis on both functional and non-functional requirements and adherence to architectural principles
• Contribute to the design and development of software components within a defined quality standard
• Resolve issues, defects and queries raised at any phase of development or production in a timely and professional manner
• Conduct quality reviews of own deliverables and deliverables from peers
• Provide sizing on technical development tasks
• Report progress regularly, escalating matters as appropriate
• Define, promote and support the team methodologies and processes and actively participates in team retrospectives
• Ensures teams and stakeholders note and understand technical or team dependencies
• Leads and contributes to priority setting and work completion across teams
   

What you'll bring along

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Informatics/ or similar field of study/or equivalent working experience is required
• A min 5-7 years demonstrable experience in a similar role is required
• Experience working with AWS cloud provider, where AWS environments are second nature to you
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform
• Solid experience of running microservices in containers on AWS
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes or EKS or ECS
• Knowledge of Kubernetes
• Expertise in Development toolchain support - CI/CD pipelines, container schedulers, and custom applications
• Experience working with Jenkins and other related CI/CD tools
• Hands on experience using Docker and building Docker container
• Nice to have AWS certification (AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional) or DevOps Engineer Expert 
• Hands-on knowledge of source control management systems (GIT) with code branching/merging strategies
• Hands-on experience with Agile, JIRA or various methodologies
• Very good English communication skills
• You are an analytical thinker, with a logical approach to solutions and problem solving
• You are self-motivated, proactive with a positive attitude