Remote Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS, SRE & CI/CD

Via; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Health cash plan

25 days annual leave

Learning and development allowance

Home office setup budget

Up to 45 workation days per year

Annual company meet-up

Job summary

Via is partnering with a global SaaS technology business to recruit an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer. You will own the cloud infrastructure, reliability, and deployment processes for a fast-moving AWS environment, collaborating with Engineering, QA and Security to ensure scalability, security and performance.

The role covers AWS, Linux, Docker, IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, incident management, and site reliability engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, SRE or a closely related infrastructure role
• Strong hands-on AWS experience
• Good Linux systems administration knowledge
• Strong experience with Docker
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or AWS ECS
• Hands-on Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog or Grafana
• Good understanding of web infrastructure and servers such as Nginx
• Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL
• Understanding of database performance, reliability and replication
• Experience troubleshooting complex production infrastructure issues
• Knowledge of SRE practices including SLOs and error budgets
• Experience with incident management and postmortems
• Good understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management and data protection
• Confidence working across infrastructure, engineering and security rather than within a narrowly defined specialism
• Strong communication skills and fluent English
• Comfortable working independently within a distributed, remote engineering team

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain and improve scalable AWS cloud infrastructure
• Develop and maintain monitoring and observability across the platform
• Identify and investigate the root causes of infrastructure and performance issues
• Manage Linux-based systems, web servers and relational databases
• Work with Nginx and MySQL, including performance optimisation and replication
• Build and manage containerised environments using Docker
• Work with Kubernetes or AWS ECS for container orchestration and scalability
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Develop and improve automated CI/CD pipelines
• Work with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront and OpenSearch
• Own and improve incident management processes
• Participate in on-call processes and lead effective postmortems
• Define and monitor SLOs and error budgets
• Implement infrastructure security and DevSecOps best practices
• Manage areas including IAM, secrets, data protection and vulnerability management
• Support security and compliance requirements including GDPR and ISO standards
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, QA and Security teams
• Document infrastructure, incident and deployment processes
• Help shape technical standards and infrastructure strategy as the platform develops

Skills

AWS

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Nginx

MySQL

SRE

Security

English

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Grafana

AWS

Puppet

Job description

Via is partnering with a global SaaS technology business to recruit an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer. You will own the cloud infrastructure, reliability, and deployment processes for a fast-moving AWS environment, collaborating with Engineering, QA and Security to ensure scalability, security and performance.

The role covers AWS, Linux, Docker, IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, incident management, and site reliability engineering.