THE ROLE:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be a vital component of a team delivering quality software. You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations, and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose. You’ll report to Principal Engineer and will help him/her deliver on the technical strategy and tactical implementation. You’ll interact, communicate and collaborate with the engineers based in Sofia, London, and Bangalore.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO SOMETHING BIG:
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll get involved with the technical direction as well as day-to-day coding standards and best practices. You’ll be a mentor to your peers and team members, a source of technical expertise, and will participate in strategic conversations with the rest of engineering and the business
- You’ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams as well as external Meetups and the like, representing the engineering work at News UK
You’ll find these skills useful in this role:
- In-depth knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform and CloudFormation
- Ability to maintain build scripts written in a variety of languages (e.g. Bash, Go, Ruby, Python)
- Experience building test & delivery pipelines, especially with CircleCI
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm
- Some exposure to application development, ideally with Node.js
OUR IDEAL TEAMMATE HAS/IS:
- You are very experienced with AWS and are flexible and open to learning everything we have to offer, expanding your skillset with us
- You’re an engineer with a passion for well-crafted and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance
- You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration
- You lead by example, encouraging your peers to improve continually
- You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, inspiring those around you to do the same
- You love engineering and constantly want to learn more
- You do thorough code reviews to be sure what we produce is of a very high standard
- You are a self-starter who loves problem-solving, with the ability to seek out solutions to complex problems solo, or as part of a pair - mentoring and upskilling others around you