Position Overview & Specifications
DevOps / AWS Engineer - Role Overview
SharpEnd / io.tt is an experience-led Studio / SaaS business partnering with ambitious brands to re-imagine the real world as a connected platform. We have developed an industry leading identity management platform, io.tt, to support clients and customers to deliver intelligent and data driven connected product campaigns.
As a DevOps / AWS Engineer within our growing engineering team, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure of our io.tt and studio projects, enabling us to deliver products with speed and efficiency.
Roles and Responsibilities
● Develop and maintain our cloud-based infrastructure and platform, leveraging best practices for scalability, reliability, and security.
● Monitor and optimise the performance and cost of our cloud resources, using tools such as CloudWatch.
● Supervision and development of the system architecture for the io.tt platform.
● Constant alignment with the manager of cloud computing execution environments (based on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes).
● Implement and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
● Work closely with the product team and developers to understand their infrastructure needs and provide solutions that meet their requirements.
● Maintain the highest levels of cybersecurity, liaising with specialist consultants
● Compliance with privacy and data processing laws and regulations.
● Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
● Governance of software development and versioning procedures.
● Automate infrastructure and operations tasks, such as provisioning, monitoring, and testing.
● Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior members of the Engineering team.
Skills and Experience
● 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or a related role.
● Strong knowledge of microservices architectures and cloud-native paradigms.
● Strong experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS.
● Strong understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and CloudFoundry.
● Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch.
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
We also value people that are...
● A team player
● Energetic and a self-starter
● Polite, respectful and considerate
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Experience:
- DevOps (required)
- Cloud Foundry (preferred)
- AWS (required)
Language:
- English (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Willingness to travel:
- 75% (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: SharpEnd - DevOps Engineer