Job Description

Role Opportunity
I am recruiting for an exciting new opening for an Infrastructure / DevOps engineer located at Based in Surrey, Greater London.
We are looking for an experienced person who can manage the AWS infrastructure for the in-house product development teams and champion further changes to improve the CI/CD pipeline. The role will require working closely with the product development and production support teams to ensure the AWS infrastructure supports the growing needs of the business.
Specific Responsibilities
" Managing AWS infrastructure for Developers and QA Testers
" Deploying in-house developed applications into AWS environments
" Manage CI framework for Developers, QA Testers and Business Analysts
" Working with our AWS cloud production support team to upgrade infrastructure components
" Manage the implementation of our monitoring framework for our AWS production, development and test environments
" Championing improvements to infrastructure and Dev_Ops automation: Infrastructure as Code, Scripted server configuration, Containerisation
" Manage internal applications (patching and upgrades) for agile tools used by the product development team

Skills and Experience (E)ssential, (D)esirable
" AWS (E). You will use a range of AWS technologies and have a broad knowledge of the following : EC2 (instances, Load Balancers), ECS (including using EC2 nodes), VPC (Client VPN, S3 endpoints, NATs), S3, RDS (Oracle and SQL Server), SQS, CloudWatch, EFS, Certificate Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, WAF
" Operating Systems : Windows 2012+, including IIS (E), Amazon Linux 2 (E), other Linux variants (D)
" Continuous Integration: Jenkins (E), GitLab(E)
" Monitoring: Splunk (D)
" Scripting: Linux shell (E), Powershell (D)
" Code analysis: SonarQube (D)
" Mail: Postfix (D), Dovecot (D)
" Server configuration: Ansible (E)
" Antivirus and UAM: Sophos (D), ClamAV (D), Ekran (D)
" As our SaaS product portfolio expands , we are likely to require skills in the following areas :
o Azure (D)
o Infrastructure as Code : CloudFormation (D), Terraform (D), Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) (D)

" Successful candidates will also need good soft skills such as :
o Excellent communicator, both written and verbal. Ability to articulate technical issues clearly and concisely (E)
o Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to listen effectively and the ability to present oneself in a calm, professional manner whilst under time and schedule pressure (E)
o Excellent analytical and problem solving skills (E)
o Fluent English (E), any other languages a bonus but not essential to role (D)
o Team player. Comfortable working in a small company environment and "hands-on" in the sense of doing what needs to be done in a small organisation (E)
Reporting

" The role reports to Head of Technical Architecture & Security