DevOps Cloud Engineer at Progressive Edge

The Role

We are looking for senior DevOps cloud engineers to work alongside a team of IT professionals in the delivery of software solutions to various clients, including:

• Focussing mainly on delivering and maintaining production-grade systems which adhere to DevOps and SRE practices
• Making use of good interpersonal skills and passion for improving the software delivery lifecycle through the implementation of DevOps principles
• Working in an Agile team and interacting closely to guide and assist engineering teams as they deliver business functionality
• Designing, implementing, and optimising the entire software release process.
• Mentoring and advising junior cloud engineers as they grow in the field

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience as a cloud engineer in a DevOps capacity
• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer with experience in Java, .NET, or Python (experience in other languages may still be considered)
• 4+ years of experience in public cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• 4+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms
• An understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, cloud native systems, the problems they attempt to solve as well as the related trade-offs to contribute to feature and service design
• A strong understanding of all components in a full-stack solution (front-end, back-end, and storage) as well as how they typically interact
• Familiar with monitoring and observability tooling and practices
• Knowledge of configuration management tools and Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform / CDK / Pulumi) and practices will be beneficial
• Experience in Release Engineering, CI/CD tooling and practices
• Experience in serverless architectures and tools
• Proven experience assisting development teams to deliver rapidly and reliably
• Development background preferred although operations background will be considered

Expert knowledge of:

• Build tooling such as Maven, NPM, Go builds, Make, and Scripting
• Software testing practices such as unit, integration, end-to-end, and their implementation
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub actions, GitLab pipelines, Bitbucket pipelines, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and ArgoCD)
• Release management practices and common release processes (Blue / Green, Canary, etc.)
• Git and various branching models
• Serverless architectures and tooling (AWS Lambda / FaaS/ Serverless/ SAM)
• CNCF tools experience such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Public cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP), certification preferable