DevOps Engineer

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Lead DevOps Engineer - Fully Remote Salary up to £70k with bonus Due to continued success and growth, my client are expanding and are now looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team. The role will be building the DevOps Continuous Improvement, Continuous Delivery platform and coding framework that underpins our core products.They are looking for someone who is passionate about automation, creative and innovative, with a track record of fully automated cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD application pipelines. You must be able to demonstrate a mindset for Open Source technologies and have implemented continuous improvement / continuous delivery effectively. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with infrastructure automation as they'll with Application Continuous Delivery.RESPONSIBILITIESHandle Infrastructure as code, contributing to making our infrastructure fully automated, simple, reliable, and easy to operateAwareness of industry direction and trends in infrastructure as code tooling and best practicesDevelop and implement systems that aid and facilitate our rapid growth including the implementation of deployment policies, future procedures, configuration management and planning for capacity upgradesDesign, operate and automate operational tasks, such as Networking configuration, Server provisioning, backup/restore, disaster recovery, monitoring and alertingImplement an on-going cloud cost optimisation processImplement security best practicesWorking with your agile team colleagues, your technical leaders and the Scrum Master and Product Owner to build quality solutions that are capable of long term testability and growth whilst delivering focused, value driven changes to a high-quality standardHelp the team avoid performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities and help with architecture decisions while ensuring that applications and services run quickly, efficiently and securely with minimum oversightLead and maintain a clear task backlog with JiraQualificationsBachelor's degree in computer science or other relevant discipline5+ years' experience in DevOps/Software Configuration Management roleProgramming experience required, preferably Python or JavaExcellent CI/CD experience with Jenkins/Bamboo/ CircleCI/ AWS Code pipelineWorking knowledge Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS ECSExcellent Linux experience, and experience in at least one of the following tools: Puppet, Chef or AnsibleProven experience:Managing the cloud infrastructure as code, using Terraform.Maintaining highly available and performant environments.Monitoring tools, such as Sumologic, Datadog, Zabbix, Nagios, New Relic.Managing and deploying AWS Load Balancers, RDS, Route 53, CloudFront, S3.Managing and deploying Serverless applications: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDBFamiliarity and experience with Agile/SCRUM based development methodologyNetworking, network security and have a deep knowledge of TCP/IPExcellent automated builds and deployments experience.