Operations Engineer

Purpose:

The Operations Engineer has expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps, and is responsible for either being assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure help/assistance or more broadly working on organisational infrastructure within the centralised Ops Team from a Deployment and Monitoring perspective

Accountabilities:

Working alongside a DevOps culture ​

Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc ​

Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs ​

Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform ​

Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally ​

Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices ​

Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime ​

Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products ​

Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure ​

Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/ uat and Prod environments

Qualifications and Experience ​ :

Highly knowledgeable of AWS ​

Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker ​

Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members ​

Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions ​

Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting ​

Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu) ​

Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation) ​

Experience in configuration management tools ​

Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic , AWS CloudWatch

Capabilities​：

Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements. ​

Regularly speaks in public forums. ​

Mentors others through code reviews and pair programming. ​

Positive attitude to learning new things