Job Category: DevOps / Sysadmin
About the Company:
Our client, a forward-thinking Fintech innovator, is pushing the boundaries with their cutting-edge CRM platform that's transforming how financial services operate! They're on a mission to deliver game-changing features to both residential and commercial customers.
About the Role:
As an experienced DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the heart of innovation, architecting and optimising the cloud infrastructure that powers their proprietary CRM platform.
Your Exciting Mission:
- Design and implement groundbreaking platform services that fuel product development and feature expansion.
- Master and enhance CI/CD pipelines to supercharge development across multiple internal projects.
- Optimise cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) to deliver unmatched performance, scalability, and security.
- Configure and manage AWS Connect contact centre solutions to enhance customer communication capabilities.
- Transform routine tasks through automation, dramatically improving system efficiency.
- Leverage cutting-edge monitoring tools including Grafana, CloudWatch, and DataDog to ensure peak system performance.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure challenges across development, testing, and production environments.
- Implement fortress-like security practices across all infrastructure and services.
- Collaborate with brilliant development teams to build robust, high-performance environments.
- Drive innovation by staying ahead of emerging technologies and implementing creative solutions.
Requirements (What Weβre Looking For):
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or in a related role.
- Proficient with Unix operating system administration.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI etc.
- Proficiency with containerisation technologies specifically Docker, Amazon ECS and ECR.
- Excellent understanding of cloud platforms (specifically AWS) including services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, OpenSearch, ElastiCache etc.
- Extensive experience with AWS Connect for contact centre solutions, call routing, and customer communication workflows.
- Extensive relational database knowledge (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB), as well as NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB).
- Experience with search (e.g. Elasticsearch) and caching (e.g. Redis) technologies.
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.
- Strong understanding of networking (VPCs, SGs etc), firewalls, VPN, and DNS.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Sentry, Grafana and CloudWatch.
- Experience with version control systems (e.g. GitLab) and best practices for branching, merging, and versioning.
- Extensive coding experiencing using Python, Javascript, Bash and PHP.
Bonus Points For:
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect etc).
- Experience with automated testing and code quality tools.
- Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform and related services.
- Advanced AWS Connect certifications and experience with Kinesis integration.
- Experience with contact centre analytics and reporting tools.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary that rewards your exceptional skills.
- Comprehensive pension plan for your future.
- Bupa healthcare coverage for your wellbeing.
- Access to a premium flexible benefits platform.
- True work-life balance with remote working opportunities across the UK.
- Be part of a revolutionary Fintech company that's leading innovation.
- Collaborative, progressive environment focused on your growth and development.
- Clear pathways for career advancement and certifications.
Additional Information:
- Applicants must have eligibility to work within the UK without restrictions.