Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for improving platform resilience and performance by collaborating with architects and engineering teams. Implement infrastructure improvements, ensure high availability, strengthen CI/CD and DR plans, assist incident response and post-mortems, document runbooks/playbooks, and share knowledge across the team.
We are looking for an experienced and collaborative Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team and help us improve the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform, enabling the business to rapidly scale. The remit and focus of the role is to use metrics and tooling to collaborate with the solution architect and engineering teams to continuously fix and/or improve the architecture, infrastructure and the way we work. It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge - if you’re a highly technical and diligent Engineer, this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities- Work with the 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
Requirements
- 6-12 years of experience
- 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
Desired skills
- 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.
Benefits
The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer:
- Hybrid work environment
- Group Term Life Insurance paid out at 3x Annual CTC (Arbor India)
- 32 days holiday (plus Arbor Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra companywide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
- Work time: 9.30 am to 6 pm (8.5 hours only)
- Compensation - 100% fixed salary disbursement and no variable component
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