Summary
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Lead the design and operation of secure, scalable, and highly reliable cloud infrastructure. You will build CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure as code, operate containerized workloads, strengthen monitoring and security, lead incident response, and design disaster recovery and high-availability solutions while improving performance and cost efficiency.
Highlights
Senior role with broad ownership of scalable cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, security, incident response, and cost efficiency.
Description
The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, implements and maintains scalable, secure and reliable cloud infrastructure, leading CI/CD, incident response and DevOps standards across the team.
What you'll do
Design, implement and maintain scalable, secure and reliable cloud infrastructure.
Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to automate software builds, testing and deployments.
Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
Deploy and manage containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
Establish monitoring, logging and alerting to improve system availability and incident detection.
Lead troubleshooting, incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure and deployment issues.
Implement security controls, access management, secrets management and vulnerability remediation.
Design and test backup, disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.
Improve cloud performance, capacity planning and cost efficiency.
Collaborate with development, testing and security teams to improve release processes.
Establish DevOps standards, maintain operational documentation and mentor junior engineers.
Plan infrastructure upgrades and migrations with appropriate testing and rollback procedures.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including hands-on responsibility for production environments.
Strong expertise in at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD or Azure DevOps.
Strong Linux administration skills and proficiency in Bash, Python or PowerShell.
Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automated provisioning.
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling and troubleshooting.
Strong understanding of networking, including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls and VPNs.
Experience with monitoring, logging, incident management and disaster recovery.
Knowledge of secure deployment practices, identity and access management, and secrets handling.
Proficiency with Git, branching strategies and release management.
Strong problem-solving, technical leadership, communication and mentoring skills.
Desirable: relevant cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes or Terraform certifications.
Desirable: experience with hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure.
Desirable: familiarity with GitOps and automated security testing.
Desirable: knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering practices, including service-level objectives and error budgets.
Desirable: experience supporting database platforms, microservices or AI/ML workloads.
Desirable: experience working in Agile teams and coordinating releases across multiple projects.
