The Senior DevOps will create new and unique web applications and tools, with a focus on the infrastructure and tooling required. Apart from developing enterprise solutions, you will also work on short and fast paced proof of concepts and demo projects, showing off the versatility and functionality of our products to internal stakeholders.

The Senior DevOps will create new and unique web applications and tools, with a focus on the infrastructure and tooling required. Apart from developing enterprise solutions, you will also work on short and fast paced proof of concepts and demo projects, showing off the versatility and functionality of our products to internal stakeholders. In this role, you will be working with and mentoring other engineers/developers to create a range of innovative web products and solutions, balancing user needs against business goals and technology capabilities. Your extensive experience will provide knowledge to the development team across the range of tools and platforms that the team works with and you will be expected to lead in the development of the infrastructure, tools and processes required to develop scalable, performant and secure web applications.

Providing technical leadership across aspects of the technology stack and demonstrate strong problem solving skills

Utilising and championing agile technical practices; TDD, Continuous Integration/Delivery, pair programming, refactoring, emergent design

Introducing Open Source products and tools as appropriate to optimise the delivery timescale and quality of the software product

Applying expert knowledge in design workshops utilising emergent design and architectural principles and patterns to produce well-engineered solutions.

Participate and contribute to all agile ceremonies; planning, estimation, show & tells and retrospectives.

Work with analysts to interpret high level requirements for complex, large scale initiatives and decomposing them into independent stories for consumption by team member

Work in a collaborative, sharing, open, transparent way

Escalating complex challenges, issues and risks as well as proposed mitigating actions

Driving continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality products

Required Experience

• A strong understanding of the Linux operating system (preferably Red Hat based).
• An understanding of networking and security.
• Experience in at least one scripting language (bash, python, ruby…).
• Experience with a configuration management tooling (Puppet, Ansible).
• A strong understanding and commercial experience of Infrastructure-as-code patterns and principles.
• An interest in containers and container orchestration.
• A good understanding of CI/CD principles.
• Experience using automated build tools i.e. Jenkins.
• Code quality - hinting/linting.
• Git - branching/merging/pull requests.
• Lean / Agile / Scrum.

Advantageous Experience

• Design Patterns
• Security - OWASP top 10
• Cloud based environments (AWS)

Customer Awareness

• A supportive, communicative and collaborative approach to working in a team
• An understanding of the different drivers and needs of customers, distributors and partners

Business & Industry

• An understanding of key organisational structures, frameworks and core processes
• An understanding of digital/web development or product delivery

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days' holiday (plus one day after two years), private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.