DevOps Engineer

In 2019, our founders were working as engineers solving complex cross domain problems within government organisations.

TwinStream was formed to consolidate their collective expertise and experience into one business, providing technical excellence and exceptional service to their clients. We have teams working both on-site with clients and remotely from home.

Details:

• Fully remote

About the role :

We are looking for skilled engineers to join a new team that will deploy and maintain our established cross-domain system for a customer. The system uses an AMQP event-driven microservices architecture and extensively utilises Docker container services. As a team member, you will maintain a continuous deployment pipeline, work with feature delivery teams to promote component releases into production, and apply configuration management tools to ensure all deployments are consistent and correctly configured.

The system is designed to be highly observable and available. The team will use monitoring tools to verify that all components are meeting SLA/SLO requirements. If any problems are identified, the team will take preventive actions to minimise customer impact and restore service as quickly as possible.

This role is perfect for an experienced engineer who is comfortable working in a managed service environment and wants to gain more experience with best-of-breed DevOps tools and techniques.

Key Responsibilities of the DevOps Engineer:

• Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production efficiently.
• Maintain the system to meet service level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system metrics.
• Instrument new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and enhance performance.
• Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking actions to minimise impact.
• Liaise with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements.
• Apply automation techniques to reduce the operational burden.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with Docker containers & orchestration tools (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)
• Experience with CI / CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Linux command line, administration, and shell scripting
• Understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery best practices
• Knowledge of network security protocols
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with monitoring tools like InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience working in a managed service environment
• Experience with cloud hosting services (AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
• Experience with event-driven messaging systems (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP)
• Knowledge of cross domain principles & technologies
• Industry experience coding in Java, Go, Python, or similar

Benefits of Joining Our Team:

• Pension Plan: 8% employer contribution
• Private Medical Healthcare: including dental and optical care
• Learning & Development: £1,000 annual training budget
• Flexible Working: work-life balance focus
• Electric Vehicle Scheme: salary sacrifice program
• Holidays: 25 days + bank holidays
• Team Events: quarterly meetings, Christmas, and summer parties
• Additional Benefits: life assurance, cycle-to-work scheme

Further Information:

All offers are contingent upon security screening. We are an equal opportunity employer, valuing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment.

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