Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing financial services start-up is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance and scale their platform across the UK, Europe, and US. The role involves optimizing performance, managing infrastructure, and collaborating with various teams to design innovative products. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with containerized applications and infrastructure design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in deployment and runtime maintenance.
• Experience designing infrastructure for rapid growth.
• Pragmatic approach to project work.

Responsibilities

• Ensure platform meets ambitious growth plans.
• Review infrastructure and propose improvements.
• Continue to improve CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Containerised microservice applications

Kubernetes

Terraform

Data protection

Performance optimization

Job description

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• Remote working with occasional meet ups in either Cambridge, London or Manchester

Senior DevOps Engineer required to join a fast growing start-up / scale-up financial services company. You will work closely with developers, product managers, QA, and stakeholders to help with scaling, modernising, and growing the platform across the UK, Europe, and US.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Ensuring the current platform delivers and matches the ambitious growth plans
2. Review of existing infrastructure, processes, and propose improvements
3. Performance and speed optimisation
4. Component end-of-life management
5. Vendor reviews and management
6. Continue to improve the CI/CD pipelines
7. Work closely with Product and Architecture teams to help design the next generation of outward-facing products
8. Develop plans for scaling
9. Work closely with the CISO to implement InfoSec policies

Requirements:

1. 5+ years of experience in deployment and runtime maintenance of containerised microservice applications and VPCs across multiple regions
2. Experience designing infrastructure and deployment plans suited to rapid growth
3. Experience working with issues in data protection and sovereignty
4. Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform
5. Experience with monitoring metrics, output, and performance
6. Experience working solely on projects with a pragmatic approach

If you would like to apply for this position, please contact Tom Rayner at 02380 765 808 or email [emailprotected] for consideration.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.