Overview
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in our team's transformation. You'll design, build, automate, test, and manage our software systems. This DevOps Engineer role is an extension of our global DevOps team. Working closely with our tech and engineering teams, you'll solve exciting challenges as we grow quickly. You'll leverage tools like Docker containers, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and other cloud-native technologies to lead our transformation from a centralized monolith to a dynamic microservices ecosystem. A key part of your work will be enhancing our CI/CD pipelines to accelerate value delivery while ensuring the high availability of Pax8-developed and managed services.
Responsibilities
* Increase developer velocity and system reliability by utilizing software development expertise, collaborating with engineering teams to address reliability concerns, analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on Cloud infrastructure to help the engineering community to work in a reliable, scalable environment
* Standardize and implement baseline visibility across systems. Leverage programmatic monitoring to proactively address visibility gaps. Collaborate with teams to embed observability in the design phase, ensuring resilient and dependable systems
* Collaborate with Architecture and Platform teams to design automated solutions that eliminate repetitive tasks, enhance self-healing capabilities, improve service reliability, and enable developers to focus on delivering product features using proven, predictable frameworks
* Prioritize security by collaborating with the engineering community to implement secure solutions, address issues proactively and reactively, and use lessons learned to establish best practices that minimize disruptions to product development
* Elevate team capabilities through mentorship, project work assistance, design guidance, and participation in support and on-call rotations
* Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis to drive improvements in system reliability by contributing to rapid recovery, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing changes based on post-mortem findings
* Substantial years of experience supporting application development, preferably microservices and Java based web platforms
* Substantial, proven, software development experience
* Ability to show advanced proficiency of a relevant programming language (Java, TypeScript, Python, Groovy, Kotlin, VueJS, etc.).
* Advanced experience with one or more of the following frameworks (Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, Mockito, Kotest, Stripe, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Netsuite, Oauth).
* Experience using AI within the SDLC to quickly deliver reliable solutions
* Strong experience with observability platforms, such as New Relic, Sumologic, Honeycomb, and similar tools to track performance and detect issues
* Solid understanding of core AWS services, including EKS, RDS, and MSK (Azure knowledge is a plus)
* Hands-on experience with Helm or Kustomize
* Extensive experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, with an emphasis on operational reliability
* Proven experience in debugging and troubleshooting applications, using both manual and automated methods
* Database and SQL development experience
* Understanding of IaC and configuration management using Terraform and Git
* Understanding of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
* Experience working in a Lean/Agile environment using tools such as Jira, ClickUp, Asana or similar
* Focus on meeting project commitments with predictability and urgency
* Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
* Strong desire for automation
* Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions
* Ability to take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
* Ability to gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
* Ability to maneuver comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
* Ability to anticipate and adopt innovations in business-building digital and technology applications
* In order to fulfil this role you should be resident in this country with a valid right to work.
We take pride in our diverse and multicultural work environment, where communication is key. Our team collectively speaks more than 23 languages, reflecting the richness of our global community. We celebrate language diversity, but we also value effective cross border collaboration business communication. You should possess a strong command of business English to ensure seamless collaboration and understanding across our dynamic team.
Pax8 is the technology marketplace of the future, linking partners, vendors, and small to midsized businesses (SMBs) through AI-powered insights and comprehensive product support. With a global partner ecosystem of over 35,000 managed service providers, Pax8 empowers SMBs worldwide by providing software and services that unlock their growth potential and enhance their security. Committed to innovating cloud commerce at scale, Pax8 drives customer acquisition and solution consumption across its entire ecosystem.
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Our servant leaders put employees first and we are about delivering exceptional employee experience to inspire customer experience. It's an exciting time to join us as Pax8, as we have just been certified as a "Great Place to Work".
* Basic Salary up to £78,000 per annum - depending on experience
* Bonus scheme
* 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
* Dedicated time for training and personal development
* Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
* Private healthcare covered by Bupa
* Dental Plan covered by Unum
* Health & Wellbeing coaching support
* Life Assurance
* Income Protection
* Royal London Workplace pension scheme
* Pax8 Cycle to Work Support Scheme Available
* Fun and frequent company and team socials
* Share Options after qualifying period
* Designated Office & Working pattern
* Tech set up to support great Home and In-office working
* Hybrid & Home Office Working
* 9-5:30 Monday to Friday.
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