DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer - Leading Newspaper

An exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer has become available to be a part of a Global Publishing Group's technical team, who deliver to over two hundred countries.

As a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer, you will help build and support scalable, secure, resilient infrastructure in AWS and other cloud providers. You will be an invaluable resource for their tech teams, writers and editors and the readership of their digital publications.

About You:

- Built or supported resilient cloud applications
- Helped manage CI/CD pipelines to automate application testing and deployment
- Familiar with some or all of the following automation, configuration management, resilience, elasticity/horizontal scaling, observability, cost optimization, and security concepts and principles
- An approach that constantly reviews industry best practices and security practices and apply this accordingly

What you will do:

- Serve as a member of the Mail Technology Devops team while managing overall cloud and system health, resilience, performance, security, capacity, and cost
- Manage and improve our AWS environments and infrastructure
- Troubleshoot application and system issues, while communicating status to the rest of the team
- Help build on our automation pipeline to increase our reliability and development velocity.
- We have a pipeline and want to extend it to further automate testing and deployment
- Improve observability coverage and tooling to increase the efficiency of the Devops team
- Focus will be initially around mitigating and fixing security issues

Required Qualifications:

Key Skills:

- 3+ years of technical experience with Platform, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps
- Solid experience managing, monitoring, and supporting AWS environments
- Experience with software release management (JIRA, GitHub & source code branching strategies) and agile/scrum methodologies
- Capacity planning and auto scaling infrastructure
- 3+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services
- Docker containers and orchestrators (ECS, Kubernetes)
- Build and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Experience programming in a language like Python, JavaScript/Bash
- Deploying and supporting Linux and Windows Servers
- Designing and operating platforms to support off-the-shelf software
- Experience troubleshooting performance issues
- Flexibility

This needs combining with a positive attitude and an ability to work within a large, globally dispersed project team in a multi-cultural environment. You also need to be a self-starter, a logical thinker and a quick learner, with strong initiative and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, able to write clearly and concisely. We believe in equality of opportunity for all job applicants regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, creed or religion, disability, sexual orientation or age. Specialising within Energy Trading, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets and TV & Entertainment, Eaglecliff Recruitment is ISO accredited, a Member of REC and listed within the top 4% for Financial stability by Dun & Bradstreet. Please telephone for an immediate response or email your CV for a reply within one hour. Eaglecliff Ltd is acting in the capacity of an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for contractor resourcing