AWS Devops Engineer – Public Cloud

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the team on a day to day basis as a player/coach.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and quarterly performance reviews
• Resource manage project work and BAU support
• Maintain high availability through proactive measures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Ensure clients are updated on current status of work and issues.
• Lead on proactively improving ways of working and processes.
• Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments.

Skills and Experience

• 3 years+ successful team leading experience (or equivalent demonstrable ability)
• 10+ years’ experience in supporting highly customer-focused mission critical environments (e.g. high-profile websites or enterprise infrastructure) essential.
• 3+ years’ experience of engineering, architecting, or supporting AWS solutions.
• Excellent O/S knowledge – Linux or Windows (e.g. RHCE or MCSE or equivalent knowledge )
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloudfront, Elasticache).
• Hold a number of current AWS Associate Level Certification, ideally including AWS Pro Architect.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable and auto-scaled environments using automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Cloudformation/Terraform and Ansible/Puppet) beneficial or can be gained.
• Scripting ability in one or more of Python, Powershell, Bash, or Perl.
• Experience of working with or supporting containerized environments (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes/Docker) beneficial
• Experience of Jenkins or other CI/CD pipeline technology useful or can be gained.
• Experience of using Git for version control useful
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP.
• A degree in a computing-related discipline preferred or equivalent ability and knowledge.
• Experience of working in an ITIL environment beneficial.
• Desire to continually grow, develop and improve.
• Proven ability to develop a team and improve teamwork
• Proven experience of carrying out effective recruitment
• Ability to confidently and calmly assess and resolve issues
• Good communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills