DevOps Engineer

at  Immediate Media Co

DEVOPS ENGINEER (UP TO £60,000)

At Immediate, we’re home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and Gardeners World. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events.
We’re the destination for people looking to get more from the things they love. We help inspire them; deepening their knowledge, skills and fuelling their passions, to enjoy more of what life has to offer.
Whether it’s the big things, or the little things; from reaching fitness goals to savouring good food, cultivating outdoor, or indoor, spaces, or enjoying the latest TV sensation with loved ones – we help bring our audiences joy!

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrable experience with cloud technologies, specifically AWS (EC2, Code Pipeline, Lambda, RDS, Route53, ELBs etc.)
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of implementing, building and maintaining automated & scripted configuration, build/release processes and version control applications
• Experience with Python / Bash scripting
• Experience working with: Terraform, Jenkins, Git / GitHub
• Proven experience and knowledge in containerisation technology, Docker & K8s
• In-depth knowledge of LAMP stack administration and common Linux-based web infrastructure and applications – Varnish, Nginx, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo. Includes scripting, performance tuning and hardening
• Analysing stack traces and performance optimising applications using various monitoring technologies
• In-depth experience of Internet engineering, technologies, processes and protocols, layers 2/3/4/5 incl. TCP/IP, NAT, firewalls, load balancers and WAF
• Comprehensive experience of non-web Internet protocols and technologies, including DNS, SSL/TLS, FTP, SMTP etc.
• Experience designing and administering website and content management publishing systems (WordPress) at scale – CDN-caching/web/application/database
• AWS / EKS Pro qualification
• Solving problems guide the team on best practices and automating the installation / creation of Dashboards

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team for some brilliant projects. This is an exciting opportunity to join the WebOps Team, responsible for leading the development of DevOps technologies and configuring, administering & troubleshooting websites, applications and infrastructure configuration tools for multiple large-scale websites.
You will have experience with LAMP and web hosting technologies (Web, database, caching, CDNs, firewalls and load balancers) in cloud and private cloud environments. You will also be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of DevOps tools and automated build and release applications having worked in multisite hosting and development environment.
The Successful candidate would be able to mentor and discipline members on best practices and standards and acting as the prominent voice for quality across the tech department and promote quality-oriented mindset in the department.