Senior TechOps Engineer

Senior TechOps/DevOps Engineer

IntaPeople are working with a disruptive financial services organisation who have been recognised as having one of the most exciting upcoming products in Europe. We are currently looking for a Senior TechOps/DevOps Engineer who has a strong focus on AWS Infrastructure.

Due to substantial growth in the US market, you’ll join the team and work closely with multiple Cloud & Software Engineers to build and maintain their modern technology platform for their target market globally.

Responsibilities (at a glance):

• You will be responsible for Designing, building, and maintaining their AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt whilst driving the standards for management and architecture.
• You will Architect and maintain a comprehensive monitoring stack whilst configuring Prometheus for metrics, visualise data in Grafana, and standardise distributed tracing across our services using tools such as OpenTelemetry.
• You will Implement and manage traffic management strategies using AWS to ensure performance standard for their global client base.
• Using Kubernetes (EKS) to manage and scale clusters
• Build and deploy pipelines using GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy, moving them towards continuous delivery.
• Using HashiCorp for security and monitoring standards required within their industry

Essential Requirements

• Strong professional experience with AWS core services (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM).
• Strong hands-on experience with Prometheus (PromQL) and Grafana (you understand the difference between logging, metrics, and tracing).
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and specifically Terragrunt for managing complex environments.
• Extensive experience managing container orchestration with Kubernetes clusters
• Proven experience building pipelines (CI/C) using GitHub CI or/and Octopus Deploy.
• The ability to read and debug code in at least one of their core languages: JavaScript, Golang, Node.js or PHP.

Benefits at a glance:

• A starting salary of £60,000 - £70,000 DOE
• A starting holiday allowance of 25 days holidays + Bank Holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Hybrid office working arrangements (3 days onsite / 2 days wfh)
• Flexible working environment
• City centre location with modern, open plan working spaces (Cardiff City centre)
• Perks platform that includes free coffee, cycle to work scheme, cinema tickets and a whole host of discounts/cashback as well as online workouts, wellnesses classes and 24/7 GP support

For more information please call Nathan Handley on (phone number removed) or click apply now for a call back.

Please note this role is based in Cardiff 3days per week and candidates must be able to comfortably travel.

We do not have the ability to provide sponsorship currently.