DevOps Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and motivatedDevOps Engineer.

We see this role as being full time. Ideally, we would like this role to be based in Edinburgh on a hybrid basis to allow for regular interaction with the wider business and colleagues in other departments.

We are ata very excitingtime in our ambitious growth plans and have fantastic opportunities for talented individuals to join our team over the next 12 months.

What you will do

The DevOps Engineer will support the delivery of adiverserange ofsoftware productsand bespoke software services– includingembeddedfirmware,developer kits, and scalable cloud-based web applications.

Key responsibilities:

• Build,testand deploy infrastructure and applications using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Codetechnologies
• Work closely with our engineering teams to understand their requirements and how they build/test/deploy their software, to continuously improve quality and accelerate the pace of development
• Setup/maintenance of environments for both manual and automated testing, ensuring stability, observability, and following security best practices, including liaising with customers when deploying to customer infrastructure
• Defining, monitoring, and reporting of DORA metrics

Essential skills & experience

We see experience with the following as essential to the job:

• Expertise with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub actions, Gitlab CI, Azure DevOps etc)
• Strong scripting ability (e.g. Python, shell, PowerShell)
• OCI container build, management and orchestration (docker, podman, kubernetes, lxc, etc
• Artifact and dependency management and deployment
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals, including DNS, IP, firewalls, and basic network troubleshooting, including VPN configuration.

Personal skills

We’re especially looking for someone who:

• Enjoys problems solving in a range of programming languages, with an interest in learning new languages, frameworks, and build systems
• Works well both independently and in a team as part of a fast-paced technical environment
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills
• Is consistently curious, interested in learning new skills and is open to new ideas and ways of working.

We think that the following skills would be valuable in this role:

This is a wish list, and wedon’texpect candidates to have experience with everything listed here.

We know that experience withspecificsystems/tools/languages is transferable; we arelooking for someone with a broad range of experience that can analyse requirements and select the most suitable tool for a particular job, can adapt to change, and is self-motivated to direct their own learning and development.