DevOps Engineer

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative imaging company in Edinburgh is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic IT Operations team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in enhancing the developer experience and streamlining workflows through technology. You will be involved in all aspects of the digital infrastructure, from architecture to deployment, and will have the opportunity to lead the DevOps function as the team grows. With a strong focus on collaboration and a commitment to a diverse company culture, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing organization that values creativity and innovation.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance of 33 days

Never Work Your Birthday

Flexible working hours

Excellent health benefits cash plan

Family-friendly benefits

Social events and gatherings

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills to explain technical topics to non-technical users.
• Experience in cloud deployment and automation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute automation mechanisms and cloud deployment pipelines.
• Manage cloud estate across AWS and GCP accounts.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Architecture and design of systems

Atlassian Suite administration

CI/CD pipelines design

AWS multi-account deployments

EC2 workload management

ECS workload management

Cloud environment security

GCP account management

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Tools

BitBucket

GCP Cloud Run

CloudFormation

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NCTech has established itself as a market leader in the provision of 360° street level imagery and 3D data to Big Tech customers. The company operates globally and is on a rapid growth trajectory, serving the Immersive Media and Geographic Information System markets. We already collect and process petabytes of data across multiple cloud platforms all across the globe.

About the job in 60 seconds

An opportunity has arisen for a DevOps Engineer to join a dynamic and rapidly-growing imaging company based in Edinburgh. The company develops state of the art panoramic and 3D imaging systems. The role will be part of the newly founded IT Operations team. In this role, you would help to empower internal users and developers to work at their full potential, help solve issues and deploy new technology solutions.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will join a team of talented engineers working as part of a new sustainable-paced agile team. You will be involved in every aspect of the process from idea generation, architecture, design, to deployment, operation, and enhancement of our global digital infrastructure. You will help empower staff through technology and make the developer experience as streamlined as possible.

Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical topics to non-technical end users and create clear process documentation.
• Previous experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems.
• Experience administering the Atlassian Suite along with BitBucket administration.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, especially in BitBucket Pipelines. Implementation of tests and deployment tools within CI/CD.
• Experience with multi-account AWS deployments, ideally using identity federation.
• EC2 based workload management.
• Previous experience managing and deploying highly scalable ECS based workloads.
• Have previous experience securing cloud environments and writing complex IAM policies.
• Experience with GCP organisation and account management.
• Experience with GCP Cloud Run and Cloud Run for Anthos.
• Creating IaC – specifically cloud formation – templates.

Role Responsibilities

• Plan, develop and execute the implementation of automation mechanisms and cloud deployment pipelines.
• Suggest and develop solutions to technical problems, and drive improvements.
• Provide support to streams to enable automation of tasks to streamline workflows.
• Write and apply development best practice policies.
• Manage our cloud estate, covering multi-account AWS and multi-project GCP accounts.
• Scope to grow the team and lead the DevOps function within NCTech.

We currently offer:

• A generous holiday allowance of 33 days.
• Never Work Your Birthday – we think you should always enjoy your birthday off!
• The opportunity to flex your working day.
• Excellent health benefits cash plan paid for by NCTech.
• Family-friendly benefits.
• Plenty of shindigs and social events – we’re always open to ideas and we’re a sociable bunch!

Above all, we’re really proud of our diverse, open and overall awesome company culture!