DevOps Engineer

Position: DevOps Engineer

Reports to: DevOps Team Lead

Hours: 40 hours and occasional overtime - flexible working

Hybrid working: 2-3 days in North London office

Salary: £55,000 - £70,000 + eligibility for performance bonus

Start date: ASAP

Job Purpose:
DevOps Engineer is responsible for end-to-end release engineering process for various environments including development, test and production, ensuring products can be effortlessly delivered to target environments using different distribution mechanisms and methods.

Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role, now or in the future. Applicants must already hold full and unrestricted right to work in the UK, which is not dependent on a time-limited visa.

Main Responsibilities:

• Automate and enhance the end-to-end release process, ensuring smooth and error-free software deployments.

• Monitor and troubleshoot release processes, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools.

• Collaborate closely with Development, QA, Database, and Operations teams to coordinate build schedules and optimize release cycles.

• Implement and manage monitoring tools to ensure application health, performance, and uptime.

Required skills:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitLabCI for automating build, test, and deployment processes.

• Experience with source code management tools (GitHub, GitLab) and branching strategies.

• Proficiency with Linux operating systems, shell scripting, and Python.

• Experience executing DDL and DML scripts in PostgreSQL and Oracle database systems.

• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch for logging and monitoring.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, and PRTG.

• Hands-on experience with Docker for containerizing applications and managing microservices-based environments.

• Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes is preferred.

• Experience with GitOpsworkflows and tools, including Flux and ArgoCD, for automated and declarative deployments is preferred.