Devops Engineer (Senior) - Puppet/ Cloud - Gain AWS/Docker

  • CVL
  • West End, Southampton SO30, UK
  • Sep 09, 2016
SQL

Job Description

Devops Engineer (Senior) - Puppet/ Cloud - Gain AWS/Docker/Ansible A rapidly growing gaming tech firm is looking for a motivated devops engineer as they build a brand new tech team in London to help scale their platform as they go through rapid expansion with the view to scale and on board customers across different sectors. The company, previously based abroad, started off focusing on branded merchandising but have grown rapidly in the last few years and have specializes in loyalty reward platforms; mainly for E commerce clients focused around the gaming sector. Having taken on many new clients in retail/ health sector they and are now looking to scale the platform to meet the demand from these fast moving sectors. As part of this they are building a brand new tech team to scale the platform and developer new features but to also automate the release around the platform. The devops engineer that will come in will get full autonomy over the function and the technology! You can use whatever tools you see fit for the job. The platform is current hosted in AWS and there is jenkins in place to automate the build process, however, they are looking to fully automate the platform release by setting up continuous integration/ delivery and manage the complete infrastructure. This is a greenfield implementation as the company are at a very early stage in their UK based operations. Working within a team of agile php developers you will be the sole infrastructure focused devops engineer helping to maintain a highly available and scalable infrastructure whilst introducing best devops practices which will ideally lead the company to daily releases in the cloud. what are they looking for? Strong Linux systems experience Experience with configuration management: Puppet/ chef/ ansible Knowledge of ELK stack Experience previously setting up CI: Jenkins/ Bamboo Very comfortable with cloud technologies: AWS/ Rackspace. This is a brilliant role to join a rapidly growing company that despite being well established and funded have maintained a start up feel. You will get full autonomy over setting up the devops function and best practices meaning you can make a real impact! As the company scale and expand through different sectors the team will grow further and as the first engineer the role will grow towards a head of position allowing massive career growth potential. Really awesome growing company allowing you to work with the latest tech! No terminology in this advert is designed to discriminate on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, creed, disability, age, sex or sexual orientation. Talent Point Ltd (including the trading name First Point) is a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) 00072652, an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate against these or any other class protected by applicable law. Key terms: Linux, webops, devops, LAMP, apache, mysql, php, AWS, VMware, cloud, puppet, chef, ansible, jenkins