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Our client are a fast growth tech business.
They are entering an exciting new phase focused on integrating and transitioning into group-wide infrastructure while continuing to build and maintain cutting-edge solutions.
This is a unique opportunity to drive the strategic adoption and enhancement of the group toolbox to ensure it meets business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership & Strategy:
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Implement the strategic roadmap for DevOps initiatives, ensuring alignment with group-wide infrastructure and tools.
- Advocate for the adoption of the toolbox, identifying gaps and driving enhancements to meet specific organisational requirements.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across development, operations, and security teams to align infrastructure strategy with business goals.
Infrastructure & Operations:
- Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
- Support, monitor, and enhance the live infrastructure and platform solutions, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Plan and execute the integration ofcurrent infrastructure into group-wide cloud platform while minimising disruptions.
- Migration of infrastructure from AWS to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring a smooth transition and leveraging GCP services effectively.
- Recommend changes to improve infrastructure, working practices, and operational efficiency.
DevOps & Security:
- Establish and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, collaborating closely with development teams to streamline deployment processes.
- Lead initiatives to maintain and enhance security posture, ensuring compliance with industry standards and frameworks (e.g., SOC-2, ISO 27001).
- Diagnose and resolve infrastructure outages and incidents, ensuring timely resolution and root cause analysis.
Documentation & Best Practices:
- Ensure comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, systems, and processes to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and scalability.
- Promote and implement DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices across the organisation.
Essential Skills & Experience:
Technical Expertise:
- Strong Linux systems administration experience, including firewalls and hardening.
- Expertise in Docker and container orchestration.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform.
- Experience with network design, administration, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Node.js, PHP).
- Experience with version control systems, ideally Git.
- Web server configuration (Apache, Nginx).
- Database management (MySQL, MongoDB), including high availability and backup solutions.
- Hands-on experience managing cloud providers, with significant experience in AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Familiarity with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and IAM.
- Familiarity with configuration management and IT automation tools.
- Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles.
Soft Skills:
- Self-motivated, highly organised, and capable of driving initiatives from concept to delivery.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience with serverless infrastructure (e.g., AWS Fargate, Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions).
- Proficiency in TypeScript.
- Knowledge of security frameworks such as SOC-2, ISO 27001, or Cyber Essentials.
Excellent package on offer
