DevOps Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is searching for a passionate DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic Platform Engineering team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge infrastructure, focusing on CI/CD automation and deployment processes. You will collaborate with various teams to enhance system reliability and drive process improvements. The company fosters a collaborative environment that encourages growth and innovation, making it a perfect place for individuals eager to develop their skills and contribute to impactful projects. Join a team that values your contributions and supports your career advancement in a vibrant and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Flexible work schedules

Additional day off each quarter

Employee wellness programs

Training and education support

Promotion and awards recognition

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services and CI/CD tools is essential.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science required; industry experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Automate CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment processes.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance infrastructure reliability.

Skills

AWS services (ECR, ECS, Route53, RDS, EC2, Redis, MSK)

CI/CD practices

Linux and Windows server OS

Programming (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Configuration management (Terraform, Ansible)

Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)

Database technologies (Postgres)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline

Industry experience from projects, internships, or placements

Tools

Git/SVN

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Summary:

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team to help build and maintain our current and next-gen infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about DevOps practices and eager to grow their skills in a dynamic and collaborative environment. This role will work with development and platform teams to support and improve our infrastructure automation, deployment processes and overall system reliability.

Responsibilities:

1. Focus on critical CI/CD pipeline automation and tooling for the development team using open-source software to handle source code repository management, pipeline configuration, build and packaging scripts, test execution and reporting and deployment.
2. Implement process improvement initiatives to maintain code base integrity, resource availability, security maturity, and performance monitoring/alerting (including check-in validation rules, branch/merge processes and defect resolution retrospectives).
3. Collaborate with other team members to accelerate the software development and integration processes.

Required Skills/Abilities:

1. Experience with AWS services such as ECR, ECS, Route53, RDS, EC2, Redis, and MSK including interfacing with them programmatically through APIs.
2. Experience with CI/CD, project, and Knowledge management tools (e.g. Git/SVN, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, etc.).
3. Strong foundational knowledge of Linux and Windows server Operating Systems.
4. Good understanding of CI/CD practices and a history of implementation.
5. Programming experience with some combination of Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
6. Working knowledge with configuration management and deployment automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible is a plus.
7. Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker is a plus.
8. Comfortable working with various database technologies, especially Postgres is a plus.
9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are important.

Education and Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.
2. Open to graduates; industry experience from projects, internships, or placements in software development is desirable.

About aPriori:
Founded in 2003, aPriori is disrupting the industry’s status quo with groundbreaking work helping manufacturers digitally transform their businesses. Through our unique, patented, intellectual property, we enable manufacturers to accelerate product design, and bring products to markets faster while providing visibility to the sustainability of their design and manufacturing choices. Our impact is profound - our customers save millions of dollars each year, accelerate time to market, all while creating a better world for future generations. Though we are an established software firm, through our continued growth, we have maintained the dynamic, collaborative nature of a start-up.

With a global presence, including North America, Europe, Asia, and India, we encourage an inclusive work environment and support employees’ growth through education, training, wellness, and other programs. As our greatest asset, employees’ contributions are acknowledged through monthly company-wide meetings, often with promotions and awards. We promote a positive work culture, employee-friendly policies, flexible work schedules, and an additional day off each quarter known as “aPriori Day”.

Interested in joining our team? We continue to build an organization highly talented, self-motivated individuals. Our unique environment empowers employees to bring their best selves each day, asking, “How can I do better?” and then exceeding expectations. We work together towards a common goal. We nurture and celebrate each other’s successes. Employees embrace opportunities to build new skills as well as step into leadership positions where they are supported and mentored by the Senior Leadership team to grow into impactful individual contributor roles or to effectively manage teams. Innovation, adaptability, and a desire to increase your value are essential. If you possess these qualities, we want to hear from you!

aPriori considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, civil partnership, pregnancy, age, military veteran status, or disability.