Operations Engineer

Job description

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