Senior Devops Engineer

Become part of a global team whose mission is to ensure that mobile devices are safe
and secure for children; and to maximise their potential to be used as a learning aid in
education. Tablets are used extensively in schools in an attempt to amplify teaching.
However, teachers spend too much time administering the devices and therefore have
not leveraged the benefits of the technology to improve the pupils’ pedagogic
instruction.
They exist to offer mobile device protection and management,
empowering parents and schools to leverage these mobile devices simply and cost
effectively. The client ensures that teachers spend less time managing devices
and more time educating our children.
Our client has already won a number of awards and been mentioned in a
number of high profile articles and sites such as New York Times. We are now in the
process of expanding the team and enhancing our primary product. Currently available for iOS, macOS, Android and Chromebook devices.
Our stack
Legacy
? AWS
? PHP
? MySQL
? Redis
Present and future
? PHP
? Golang
? MySQL, PostgreSQL
? Various NoSQL, message brokers and event streaming platforms
? Kubernetes
? GitOps using ArgoCD
? Event-driven microservices architecture where appropriate
Role and Responsibilities
? Bring all our cloud resources under infrastructure as code management
? Modernize build / re architect our existing networking infrastructure for
security, performance, resilience, high availability, reliability, scalability, and
cost effectiveness
? Migrate our legacy infrastructure and applications to our new environment
? Expand our platform infrastructure and improve our end-to-end development
workflows
? Improve security and observability throughout our entire application stack
? Conduct security audits, infrastructure testing, etc in order to ensure platform
suitability and stability
? Work closely with engineers and leadership to understand our product
roadmap and to help make the right decisions to develop technology that is
ready for scale
? Be on-call to respond to automated alerting should the need arise
Must haves
? Experience designing, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS
? Production Kubernetes administration experience
? Networking fundamentals
? Broad understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
? Experience configuring and maintaining observability solutions such as
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, etc.
? Experience implementing and managing cloud governance, compliance, and
auditing.
? Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
? Linux/Unix administration
? Scripting languages (Shell / Python / etc) - PHP, Golang a bonus
? Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Ansible, Packer, etc. Experience with
automated IaC is a bonus
? Site Reliability Engineering - working knowledge of SRE practices
? Create and maintain documentation across all responsibilities
Nice to have
? Experience in an early-mid stage startup environment, where product/market
fit is continuing to be evaluated, re-evaluated and recalibrated