DevOps Engineer

Join our diverse team of talented software developers, producing mission-critical applications for global Enterprise-level clients. With projects spanning fintech, media, education, renewable energy, insurance and banking, you can enjoy challenge and variety in equal measure. As a growing business, there’s a wealth of opportunity here to quickly develop your technical career to the next level. If you’re a team player with a passion for code and eager to progress, this is an ideal opportunity for both professional and personal development.

Highly skilled, you’ll design, build, install, configure and maintain systems on Cloud or Hybrid environments, building functional platforms that improve the customer experience.  

This position involves collaborating with extended teams, implementing and improving CI/CD processes, providing technical support and sharing DevOps culture across the delivery teams and wider company. So, your problem-solving attitude and enthusiasm for communicating across both internal teams and externally with clients will ensure you enjoy both the technical and team working elements of this multi-faceted role. 

Day-to-day you’ll: 

• Utilize Infrastructure As Code tools to create and maintain systems in cloud or hybrid environments

• Develop scripts for automation processes

• Monitor systems, network and application availability

• Write documentation for processes and tools

You’ll be technically proficient, with at least 3 years of proven experience managing IT projects plus a BSC in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field.  

In terms of technologies and programmes, you’ll have a good knowledge of: 

• Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP or other Cloud platforms 

• Docker and Kubernetes or similar container orchestration systems  

• Windows Server OS and/or Linux administration

• CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps pipelines, AWS CodePipelines, TeamCity, Jenkins or Octopus) 

• On-prem virtualisation such as VMWare or Citrix

Experience with Monitoring using Prometheus, Graphana and the ELK stack, plus strong scripting skills using Windows PowerShell or other scripting languages (Bash/Perl/Groovy) is also important. 

Additional desirable skills include: 

• Good exposure to Database Management Systems (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)

• Storage knowledge (SAN, RAID, LVM) 

• Experience with one of the following technologies: GIT, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps

Advantageous, although not mandatory, would be experience and/or knowledge of: 

• Non-cloud networking: Routers, Load Balancers, TCP/IP stack, HTTP/HTTPS/WebSocket, VPN tunnels, routing protocols OSPF/BGP

• Orchestration tools & containerized applications

• Infrastructure as Code languages (HashiCorp Terraform, AWS SAM, Azure ARM Templates)  

• Tools such as HashiCorp Consul, HashiCorp Vault, HashiCorp Nomad, Ansible, Puppet, Chef 

• DNS, CDN (Cloudflare) 

• API Gateways (Kong) and WAF  

• Systems monitoring, alerting and analytics tools such as Zabbix, SolarWinds, Azure Monitor  

Advanced written and spoken English communication skills are a must.

As a member of our ever-growing team, you'll get the opportunity to work alongside colleagues at all stages of their careers, in all technical disciplines, with a range of technologies, clients and delivery partners. Variety is never in short supply, and we strive to bring you the best opportunities to learn from and showcase your skills. 

We believe that your growth expands beyond your discipline, so we focus on both your personal and professional goals. Via a technical careers map, soft skills programme and 360-degree feedback loops, you’ll have ample opportunity to understand your performance and how best to grow your career, your way.  

And with a close-knit and sociable team (for those who want it), we promise there’s always fun to be enjoyed along the way!

We’re award-winning specialists in technical strategy, application development, and application management support services. Our teams successfully build, enhance, integrate systems, upgrade platforms, and deliver multi-faceted digital projects, for clients globally. 

With offices in Leeds, UK, Cluj-Napoca, and Iasi, Romania, we cover a broad remit of industries from media to education and finance to renewable energy (and everything in between) – there is endless opportunity to learn, grow and shape your career.  

Committed to being a leader in the technical services industry, we’re united by our passion to make a difference, and shape the future of technology.