Senior DevOps Engineer - UK (Tech 2024)

at  AlphaSights

WHO YOU ARE:

• 5+ years experience in demonstrating competency and positive results in a DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering role
• Professional experience with CI/CD tooling and concepts, including Git, CircleCI, GitLab, Spinnaker
• 5+ years experience managing and demonstrating competency with AWS infrastructure, including EKS, IAM, RDS, S3, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, ECR and ASM. AWS Certification is a plus
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes administration and container orchestration in a production context
• Capable of developing and maintaining tools that enable developers to manage environments and automate common tasks
• Experience with automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or another IaC tool
• Knowledge of a variety of security concepts and frameworks that can be leveraged in your day to day work, and applying those concepts in securing our AWS environments
• Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery concepts, failover and redundant architecture.
• Highly collaborative, organized and has the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
• Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.

THE ROLE:

AlphaSights’ Platform Engineers work hard to make sure we’re performant, highly available and resilient to failures. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, building and maintaining our core AWS infrastructure and our CI/CD pipelines and toolset.
We’re looking for people who are interested in designing and executing solutions to a very high standard, comfortable working across multiple technologies, and learn quickly when new ones are introduced. We care more about your engineering skill versus your deep knowledge of a particular tool, provider or technology.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Create solutions that enable our engineering teams to deploy code quickly, reliably and securely
• Ensure the availability, scalability, performance and security of our cloud infrastructure
• Diagnose and troubleshoot application and infrastructure related issues quickly and effectively
• Provision cloud resources based on capacity, computing and security requirements
• Always have best security practices top of mind, employing zero trust and principle of least privilege across all critical systems and resources
• Work in tandem with development teams to manage and execute DevOps and Infrastructure initiatives
• Regularly evaluate and research alternative solutions to improve internal DevOps processes
• Continuously evaluate and refine the monitoring of our critical infrastructure and applications