Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

at  Hippo Digital Limited

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE THAT YOU NEED

At Hippo Digital we are looking for experience in the following things. We need people who are open to new technologies, quick to adapt, and quick to learn. If you don’t have one of the following please apply and we can discuss in more detail.

• Working experience of IaaS, PaaS and Serverless technologies on AWS and willing to develop knowledge of the other key Cloud providers;
• Working experience of AWS technologies such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, API Gateway;
• Working experience of CI/CD pipelines;
• Working experience of database development methodologies, including hands on experience with SQL;
• Highly scalable data processing platform design and implementation experience;
• Working experience of Infrastructure as Code frameworks e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, Cloud Development Kits (CDK);
• Working experience of designing and implementing logging and monitoring stacks to aid observability e.g. Grafana, Cloudwatch, PagerDuty, ELK stack
• Good scripting skills in one of PowerShell, Bash/Shell and Python or another appropriate language;
• Experience of moving in a fast-paced, agile environment;
• Experience of responding to aggressive, delivery-focussed objectives.
• Experience of moving in a fast-paced, agile environment;
• Experience of responding to aggressive, delivery-focussed objectives;
• Experience of working as part of a Managed Services Provider (MSP) is preferred, but not essential.

WHAT MAKES US GREAT

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• private health cover
• private dental cover
• additional company pension contributions
• additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• wellbeing contribution
• charity contributions
• tree planting

Hi, we’re Hippo Digital.
At Hippo Digital, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We’re a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We’re confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you’re looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Hippo Digital is recruiting for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to join our growing consultancy. The Senior DevOps Engineer is a key role within our Managed Services team. You will be working with like-minded, talented engineers across a range of clients, delivering value and driving automation. As part of a close-working and collaborative team, we make data valuable and available to our clients, through consultancy services or product development.
Our solutions help our customers realise value beyond the boundaries of systems and applications. We collaborate with our customers to build and support secure, scalable and well-engineered systems that can be relied on. We love data and have made it our mission to build awesome systems that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data. The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in all of this.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE ROLE

• Champion Infrastructure-as-code and automation in every aspect of the solution, encouraging a platform agnostic approach;
• Be prepared to operate in a hands-on development environment, working with several different platforms, languages and frameworks;
• Support and encourage the maintenance of best practice and standards in Cloud architecture, data platform development, testing and support;
• Share knowledge gained through consultancy and product development with the wider community, with the wider Managed Services team and other Engineering teams.
• Ensure that all platforms are delivered in a secure, supportable and scalable manner and are documented appropriately;
• Externally represent the Managed Services team at client meetings with the presence of the Technical Operations Manager.
• Manage clients’ expectations/communications.