DevOps Engineer

An established, leading company in the Media industry is seeking for a DevOps Engineer. You will contribute to the resilience, scalability, and performance of the digital media website handling over 20 million requests a month and over half a million unique users daily which runs on fully scripted and highly scalable cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Introduce processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment to maintenance and updates

• Drive the unification and automation of processes

• Strive to deliver high-quality, fully functional and tested software

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of existing technologies powering a popular news website

• Be involved in improving the architecture of the backend systems. The ultimate goal is to make those systems more resilient, scalable and better performing

• Be an active contributor to the design and optimisation of new modules to complement an extensively developed content management system

Requirements:

• 5+ years' DevOps experience

• 3+ years' experience with CI/CD

• 3+ years' experience with configuration management tools

• 2+ years' experience with LXD/LXC

• Excellent conduct of Python and Shell scripting languages

• Experience with Linux system administration

• Experience with AWS or another public cloud provider

• Excellent working knowledge of Git

• Experience working in agile teams, both local and remote

• Good communication skills

Good-to-have:

• Degree in Software Engineering (or equivalent experience)

• Hands-on experience with Juju

• Experience working with modern API based PHP applications utilising CakePHP, Laravel or Symfony