SpotOn Connections Recruitment Solutions was created to focus on the Finance, Legal, Technical, and Multilingual sectors in Europe, delivering a premium recruitment service to all our clients and candidates alike. Due to popular demand for our consultancy, we have now branched into other industries. Our consultants come from a recruitment background, specialising in specific industries and services, thus allowing us a better understanding of our clients' needs. We provide a no risk service to our clients and an individually tailored service to suit our candidates.
Our client is one of the fastest growing Fintech companies the UK!
Their award-winning technology is used by some of the UK’s leading retail banks, lenders and fintech companies.
We are looking for a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer to join their exciting team. The ideal candidate will have a background in Cloud, systems support and/or application development with real-world experience and demonstrable Cloud Engineering knowledge.
The role offers fantastic opportunities in career growth and professional development.
Essential Skills
Commercial experience gained from working in client-facing roles within an IT Services, Management Consulting or a cloud service-based organisation as a DevOps engineer or other relevant engineering type role
Previous experience working with a wide range of AWS infrastructure/application architecture and networking services
Knowledge of fundamental Infrastructure components including DNS, Load Balancing, SSL and TCP/IP
Experience administering Linux operating systems
Experience working with event driven architecture
Exposure to micro-services architectures, container orchestration platforms (Docker), DevOps and CI/CD
Previous experience with Infrastructure provisioning tools such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or CloudFormation
A strong desire for self-motivated continuous personal development
Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects concurrently
Strong stakeholder/client management skills
Excellent team working and communication/presentation skills
Strong attention to detail
Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles
Desirable Skills
Scripting experience (Bash/Python)
Experience working with PHP frameworks such as Symfony or Laravel
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to scalable cloud environments
Previous database management experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
Role and Responsibilities
Design, plan and deliver cost efficient, performant solutions to meet the organizations requirements
Automation of new and existing processes
To research and implement tooling/infrastructure to help improve development processes
To provide technical assistance to Development teams and non-technical personnel alike
Capacity planning of the cloud infrastructure
To manage the deployment pipelines and be the gatekeeper for production ready code to multiple client environments
To ensure that systems are safe and secured against security threats
Incidence Management and root cause analysis
to be discussed