DevOps Engineer

TwinStream is a company focused on delivering technical excellence and high-quality service to clients. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a new team responsible for deploying and maintaining a cross-domain system, ensuring high availability and performance through effective monitoring and automation.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production as efficiently as possible
• Maintain the system to agreed service level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system-generated metrics
• Instrumentation of new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance
• Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventative/remedial action to minimise customer impact
• Liaising with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements as they arise
• Apply automation techniques to reduce the burden of manual operations

Requirements:

• Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible)
• Experience working with Docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm)
• Experience using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or GitHub actions)
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Linux command line, administration and shell scripting
• Solid understanding of monitoring, auto-scaling, performance tuning, troubleshooting and disaster recovery best practices
• Working knowledge of network security protocols
• Working knowledge of AWS
• Experience with monitoring tools such as InfluxDB, Prometheus or Grafana
• Experience of working in a managed service environment
• Experience using, developing with and maintaining cloud hosting services (ideally AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)
• Experience of event-driven integration with MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or similar AMQP solution)
• Knowledge of cross-domain principles & technologies
• Industry experience writing well-tested code in one of our platform languages (Java, Go, Python or similar)