Jobs in Oxford, Gran Bretaña

DevOps Engineer 50,000 - 55,000 Remote / UK-based

We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our software development team, supporting systems that serve tens of thousands of customers. You'll play a key role in deploying, monitoring and operating our applications across critical production environments, with a direct impact on user experience, customer satisfaction and company growth.

• Design, implement and maintain infrastructure as code for development and production environments.
• Build, maintain and improve observability and monitoring solutions, ensuring system health and uptime, including participation in on-call rotation.
• Design, implement and optimise continuous delivery systems, advising development teams on resiliency, operability and best practices.
• Configure and administer advanced Kubernetes clusters (networking, storage, namespacing, multi-node groups).
• Configure and administer Kafka clusters with disaster recovery and data loss prevention mechanisms.
• Proactively identify points of failure in infrastructure and recommend improvements.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) to support delivery goals.

• 3+ years in a DevOps role, ideally within a SaaS environment.
• Strong background in distributed systems (load balancing, messaging, distributed databases).
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Expertise in cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Proven track record designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Git).
• Kubernetes cluster administration, including non-standard networking, storage classes and multi-node groups.
• Advanced Kafka administration, including topic configuration and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of IP networking (TCP, UDP, firewalls, SSL).
• Familiarity with both Windows and Linux environments.
• Prior experience in application development, ideally SaaS and web-focused.
• Strong grasp of software engineering and design principles (patterns, event-driven architecture, CAP theorem).
• Security-minded approach at all levels.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Exposure to monitoring and reporting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Interest in continuous learning and bringing new ideas to the team.

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