DevOps Engineer

Fortice; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortice in Bristol is seeking an Infra / DevOps Engineer to join a hybrid team. You’ll own AWS projects, bring them to production-grade status, and reduce the support burden on older projects.

You will influence architectural direction and work on newer initiatives with greater autonomy within a small, collaborative Infra team.

Qualifications

• Solid mid to senior with ownership experience.
• AWS cloud engineering with networking and Linux administration.
• Familiar with containers and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and Ansible.
• Exposure to on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Take over established AWS projects and bring them to production-grade.
• Reduce support burden on existing projects and influence architectural direction.

Skills

AWS

Networking

Linux

Containers

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

Infra / DevOps Engineer, Bristol (hybrid), up to £80k

We’re looking for at least 4 Infrastructure / DevOps Engineers to support a small established Infra team at one of Europe’s fastest growing defence SMEs.

Who they are

They built next-gen sensing and communications systems that operate at the edge. Think frontline teams making decisions with whatever they've got, and technology that protects people and critical assets in demanding environments.

This particular Infra team has 8 members. They’re a close-knit team who are highly collaborative and frequently knowledge sharing. There will be lots of context on the older projects to get you up and running.

The first 6 months:

• Upon joining you’ll take over a couple of established AWS projects, learn the bespoke environments, and make them properly production-grade.
• Cut the support burden on existing projects
• Have a real say in architectural direction
• Then move onto newer projects with more freedom to spread your wings

This role isn't one of forty people in a platform team shuffling tickets. Most projects have a single engineer on them. There are more junior engineers to lean on and a team that is super supportive, but ultimately you will have ownership of a project. Expect some ambiguity, because things change fast.

Who we’re after

• Solid mid to senior. You've owned things, not just contributed to them
• AWS-flavoured cloud engineering, with decent networking and Linux admin underneath
• Comfortable with containers and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation, plus something like Ansible)
• Comfortable on-prem
• Exposure to Kubernetes and comfortable with containerisation
• Are you a support or sysadmin background that moved into cloud? Great. Some of their best team members have gone down that route
• Eligible for SC clearance