Senior Devops Engineer

LUSH; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the cosmetics industry is seeking a DevOps Engineer to enhance their global digital infrastructure and support innovative technology solutions. This hybrid role requires a strong background in DevOps tools and collaboration with teams to ensure smooth operations. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work in a values-driven environment committed to ethical practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD.
• Understanding of application profiling, observability tools, and networking protocols.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly GCP.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to deploy and enhance global digital infrastructure.
• Build and maintain tools for deployment and monitoring.
• Assist in removing reliance on GCP and scope new projects.

Skills

Architectural design experience

Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform)

Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

CI/CD pipelines experience

Application profiling and observability tools

Cloudflare platform expertise

Bash knowledge

OOP understanding

Job description

Location: Hybrid London Soho Office - Min 2x per week in the office

Salary banding: £60,500 - £80,000

Diversity matters

We are building a brand that represents the people of the world. It's what you do that counts, and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future.

We see you, we celebrate you, we want you!

Who we are

You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there's more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good.

The Living Wage Foundation's statement 'a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what's inside that counts - whether that's an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone.

LUSH Digital offers a range of exciting online and in store experiences for our customers. Developers of many disciplines are responsible for creating and developing new innovations in technology, as well as providing and maintaining a global digital estate across multiple platforms and devices.

We love open source! The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is always our first port of call when a requirement for a new tool comes up. Whenever we can, the code we produce is made public for all to use.

Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.

Key Responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer you will be working with the rest of the team to collaborate closely with our engineers to deploy, operate and enhance the global digital infrastructure. Building and maintaining the tools for deployment and monitoring operations whilst troubleshooting and solving any problems the engineering team may face whilst getting their code in front of its users. As well as this, as part of the LUSH Digital plan to move away from big tech, you'll be assisting us in removing our reliance on GCP which involves planning and scoping new projects, finding which tools fit our use cases and implementing them for developers to use.

We would like to see knowledge of the latest DevOps tools and practices. Experience with Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD and any cloud platform (we currently use GCP) is required.

We love automation so programming / scripting skills are beneficial. Understanding application profiling and observability tools including Prometheus/Grafana and large-scale distributed systems would also be beneficial. Knowledge of networking and web protocols would be a plus.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Required:

• Architectural design experience
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform and familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) components (Any cloud provider is advantageous).
• Strong knowledge in containerisation/containerisation orchestration technologies, including Docker/Podman, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Comprehensive experience of CI/CD pipelines, particularly Gitlab CI/CD and ArgoCD. We use inhouse tooling written in Go to support these pipelines.
• Must understand SDLC & branch patterns.
• Experience with application profiling and observability tools such as Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana. Extra points for someone who has experience in deploying, setting up and refining the observability stack.
• Expertise with Cloudflare platform - We use a breadth of CloudFlare services, including proxying, geo-aware loadbalancing, workers, protection, etc.
• Experience working in a global production environment with minimal/no downtime. Although we have no demand for routine out of hours work, our reach is global, so a 24/7 operation and in emergency scenarios DevOps is the first port of call.
• An awareness and passion for security best practices.
• Good Bash knowledge.
• Understanding of OOP in at least one language. The DevOps team use Golang whilst the wider dev teams use Python and TypeScript.

Desired:

• Strong ability in Golang (the wider dev teams use Python and TypeScript).
• Knowledge of networking and web protocols is advantageous.
• Familiarity with database technologies, such as MySQL and Postgres