Key skills
AnsibleAWSCloudDockerEC2LinuxMariaDBPHPPostgresPythonShell ScriptingTCP/IPTerraformShellAIGitHub ActionsECSRDSCloudFrontRoute53IAMCloudWatchPostgreSQLDatadogGitGitHubVersion Control
About this role
Role Overview
- Build, Maintain and improve a modern, highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS to support our next generated of AI-powered products.
- Use AI tools to empower your productivity and make you more successful
- Provide an end-to-end infrastructure provisioning, configuration and release ecosystem to support an AI-first Engineering team and the incredible rate of change and release schedule they need to achieve
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of our products.
Requirements
- At least 6+ years of experience developing and working with large-scale production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python
- 2 years development expertise in at least one programming language beyond scripting, ideally PHP or Python.
- Advanced proficiency in POSIX shell scripting, including skills in using awk, sed, grep, etc.
- Experienced using GitHub, particularly GitHub Actions and Workflows
- Strong version control skills using Git.
- Advanced Linux skills including iptables, systemd, logging, application management, diagnosis, sysctl tweaking, etc.
- Highly experienced with Docker and containerised applications and systems
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for provisioning and managing scalable cloud infrastructure across multiple environments.
- Expertise in configuration management and automation using Ansible, including playbook development, system orchestration, and deployment automation.
- Experienced with AWS services including EC2, ALB/NLB, VPCs, IAM, RDS, ECS, Route53, and CloudFront.
- Some experience with large-scale databases and database administration, ideally MariaDB & PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
- Familiarity with metrics/monitoring systems, ideally Datadog and CloudWatch.
- Attention to detail and ability to read and contribute to documentation thoroughly.
- Conscientiousness, strong documentation skills, and openness to feedback.
- Experience leading projects, including planning, orchestration, migration, deployment, and delivery.
- Nice to Have:
- Strong networking background, including understanding of TCP/IP and routing protocols
- Strong database background, with experience in optimising database performance and resolving performance issues.
Tech Stack
- Ansible
- AWS
- Cloud
- Docker
- EC2
- Linux
- MariaDB
- PHP
- Postgres
- Python
- Shell Scripting
- TCP/IP
- Terraform
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (+ milestone leave)
- Paid sick leave
- Generous parental leave
- Health & dental insurance
- Pension contributions
- Learning & development support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible work practices
- Commuter benefits
- Modern city-centre office