Description
1. Job Purpose / Role Overview
Responsible for automating infrastructure, managing cloud environments, setting up continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, release management, monitoring system performance, ensuring security and compliance.
2. Key Responsibilities
- Working as part of a scrum team, but collaborating with other development teams, product, design and test teams to ensure the best implementation and highest quality product
- Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines. Automate provisioning and configuration of cloud resources
- Deploy, manage, and optimise cloud-based infrastructure. With a core focus uptime and performance
- Set up and maintain the necessary monitoring, alerting, and logging in our systems to ensure system reliability and performance
- Work with product and development to plan, build, execute and manage releases.
- Implement security best practices in infrastructure, including vulnerability scanning, IAM, and firewall management
Requirements
3. Experience
- 3+ years’ experience DevOps roles
- A track record of successfully managing and delivering the automation of infrastructure and deployment processes
4. Skills and Competencies
- A strong ability to work with detail and accuracy
- Strong technical skills and understanding of software development and delivery practices
- Experience with video delivery platforms or learning management systems a huge benefit
- Practical experience working with automated unit and integration testing tools and frameworks such as PHPUnit, PHPStan and Selenium
- Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, and tools such as Jira and Git
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Flexible and able to work in a highly collaborative fast-paced culture
- Strong technical capabilities, with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues across multiple systems
- Structured and organised approach to ensure issues are managed to completion, prioritised effectively, and reported on to key stakeholders
- Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL/Aurora)
- Development and coding or database experience a strong advantage
- Experience with setting up and maintaining continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Practical experience with AWS, including the management of live, business critical software platforms
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools, with a clear understanding on maintaining system reliability
- Experience with Docker setup and configuration