Lead DevOps Engineer

Alderley Edge
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Role: Lead DevOps Engineer
Location: Office near Alderley Edge, Cheshire
Working Arrangements: Hybrid working policy of 2 days per week in the office, which is flexible, but the team go in typically on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Salary: Up to £80k plus benefits, including bonus
You’ve been around the block- you’ve worked in big companies, small ones, and have realised that the people make the place. You don’t mind how big the organisation is, as long as there are good people there who are equally as good at what they do.
On the technical side, you have a deep understanding of how infrastructure and systems fit together, how software engineering and production works, how many different technologies work, and have come to the conclusion that the right tool for the job isn’t always necessarily the new buzzword on the scene, and know enough to be able to make the call on what technology fits your current need. Afterall, technology is a tool to finding a solution!
Next on your to-do list is to find a company that not only values your way of thinking, your skills, experience, and pragmatism, but actively encourages, and gives you opportunities, to impart your wisdom to others and lead the way in your team.
If this sounds like you, you’re in for a treat with this role!
I am working with a lovely company that is about to go through a period of transition, going from being a small company to becoming part of a global organisation due to an acquisition. It’s an exciting time for them- everyone there is jazzed for it!
They are hiring in a number of departments and DevOps is no different. Starting with a Lead DevOps Engineer, this role will see you being in a technical leadership role, providing mentoring and skill development to a very bright, enthusiastic DevOps Engineer, and growing the team with another couple of DevOps Engineers, and doing the same for them.
You will be fully hands-on, using a range of tech, but centring around AWS and Terraform, initially.
Here’s an abbreviated list of tech/skills you’ll use in the role:

  • AWS & GCP and various services, including AWS ECS, EC2, Fargate, Lambda, and GCP Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and IAM.
  • Terraform for IaC
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux (sysadmin including firewalls and hardening)
  • Web Server Config (Apache, Nginx)
  • Database management (MongoDB & MySQL) for high availability and backups
  • Git for version control
  • Programming/Scripting languages like Node/TypeScript, Python
  • Serverless Infrastructure
  • Network design & admin
    There is a planned, company-wide, migration from AWS over to GCP in the next year or so, so any familiarity with GCP would be hugely beneficial for the role and you’ll need to be comfortable in switching cloud providers yourself, to be happy in the role. Due to the acquisition, integration experience would be really handy, too.
    Whilst a tech alignment is necessary, it will always be secondary to culture and values fit: being a self-starter, curious, proactive, upbeat, and engaged team member is very important to them.
    This is an interesting role to get stuck into that will provide you with all the technical problems to solve, that will really use the skills you’ve developed, and that will be as rewarding as it is satisfying.
    If this sounds right up your street, apply now or get in touch to find out more!
    We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background

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