Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Location We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment with the candidate required to travel to either our Winchester or London office once or twice a week.

We offer

• Salary Up to £83K
• 10% Bonus
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
  
  

Must Haves

• Expert technical knowledge in DevOps applications and processes
• A proven track record delivering high-performance, high-availability systems
• Experience of Agile project methodologies, supporting effort estimations, leading spike activities and delivering presentations
• A passion for advocating DevOps methodologies and mentoring other staff on best practices
• At least 4 years of commercial experience delivering services on AWS
• Strong knowledge of writing Terraform and/or other IaC technologies
• Experience creating CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in AWS networking
• Experience in at least one programming/scripting language, preferably Python and Bash shell scripting
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Instrumental in supporting development and deployment of cloud services supporting critical national infrastructure, using Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC)
• Responsible for maintaining, supporting and enhancing existing services; with a key focus on cost, reliability and security
• As the subject matter expert, you will be working closely with other teams to design solutions and produce low level designs
• Contribute to innovation and continuous improvement, both small and large, inside the team and throughout the business
• Being an expert in DevOps you will be a strong advocate for DevOps methodologies, representing the team to stakeholders, and enforcing best practices
• Mentor members of the team on their technical skills, peer review code commits, and provide training.
• Potential secondment to project specific scrums to provide DevOps leadership within that project
• Provide third line operational support and maintenance for existing and new applications within agreed service levels
  
  

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.

Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!

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