About the role
Purpose:
The Operations Engineer has expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps, and is responsible for either being assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure help/assistance or more broadly working on organisational infrastructure within the centralised Ops Team from a Deployment and Monitoring perspective
Accountabilities: • Working alongside a DevOps culture • Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc • Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs • Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform • Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally • Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices • Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime • Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products • Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure • Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/uat and Prod environments
Qualifications and Experience : • Highly knowledgeable of AWS • Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker • Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members • Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions • Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting • Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu) • Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation) • Experience in configuration management tools • Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch
Capabilities: • Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements. • Regularly speaks in public forums. • Mentors others through code reviews and pair programming. • Positive attitude to learning new things
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