About the role
Purpose:
The Operations Engineer has expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps, and is responsible for either being assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure help/assistance or more broadly working on organisational infrastructure within the centralised Ops Team from a Deployment and Monitoring perspective
Accountabilities:
- Working alongside a DevOps culture
- Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc
- Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs
- Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform
- Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally
- Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices
- Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime
- Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products
- Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure
- Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/uat and Prod environments
Qualifications and Experience :
- Highly knowledgeable of AWS
- Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker
- Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members
- Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions
- Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting
- Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu)
- Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation)
- Experience in configuration management tools
- Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch
Capabilities：
- Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements.
- Regularly speaks in public forums.
- Mentors others through code reviews and pair programming.
- Positive attitude to learning new things