DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer at Kallidus (a SaaS learning and talent management provider) who maintains and automates the cloud platforms behind its applications: Azure infrastructure via Terraform, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD with Azure DevOps, and automation using PowerShell, Bash and Chef, with a focus on reliability, security and scale.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Canon's Marsh, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong hands-on DevOps and infrastructure engineering experience
- Good understanding of modern application development, deployment and operational practices
- Microsoft Azure infrastructure, platform services and automation
- Kubernetes administration and container orchestration
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Azure DevOps or other CI/CD tooling
- Administration and support of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Infrastructure monitoring, performance optimisation and operational support
- Infrastructure security, vulnerability management and remediation
- Troubleshooting complex infrastructure, platform and application deployment issues
Nice to have
- Monitoring and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus or equivalent
- Configuration management and automation tooling such as Chef, Ansible or equivalent
- PowerShell, Bash or similar scripting languages
- Networking, load balancing and application delivery technologies, including HAProxy
Full description
We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and help manage, automate and continuously improve the platforms that underpin our applications and services. Working closely with Infrastructure and Development teams, you will be responsible for ensuring our platforms are secure, resilient, scalable and operationally effective. You will drive automation, improve platform reliability and support the efficient delivery of services into production. You will play a key role in managing and evolving our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling, Infrastructure as Code and container platforms, helping to define platform standards and best practices across the organisation. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, takes ownership of critical services and platforms, and is confident sharing their expertise and challenging existing approaches when there isa better way to do things.,
- Maintain and evolve the platform infrastructure that underpins our applications and services.
- Design, build and automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform and other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters and associated platform services, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, upgrades, troubleshooting and automation.
- Develop and enhance CI/CD tooling and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps or similar technologies.
- Monitor and optimise platform performance, reliability, capacity and security, implementing improvements where needed.
- Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure, platform and deployment-related incidents.
- Develop, maintain and enhance automation and configuration management solutions using PowerShell, Bash, Chef and equivalent technologies.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance on platform architecture, operational impact, security and risk.
- Contribute to platform roadmaps, technology standards and modernisation initiatives.
- You will have strong hands-on DevOps and infrastructure engineering experience, alongside a good understanding of modern application development, deployment and operational practices.
We would particularly like to hear from you if you have experience with:
- Microsoft Azure infrastructure, platform services and automation.
- Kubernetes administration and container orchestration.
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Azure DevOps or other CI/CD tooling.
- Administration and support of Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Infrastructure monitoring, performance optimisation and operational support.