Mid-level CloudOps Engineer

Location:  UK Remote

Job Type : Full-time

Working hours: 9am – 6pm EST Monday to Friday & occasional weekend cover

About Accredit:

Accredit Solutions is a market-leading dynamic and rapidly growing software company servicing the major sporting, and event industries. Headquartered in London with offices in the USA, the UAE, and Australia. Accredit works with many of the world’s most high-profile sports clubs & teams, major sporting tournaments, stadiums, and live events, as well as government agencies across the globe.

Our clients include several Premier League Clubs (Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea, Fulham), National and International Football, Rugby, Cricket and more (The International Cricket Council, The Rugby Football Union, The English Football Association, The England & Wales Cricket Board, New Zealand Rugby and Cricket, Rugby Australia, NFL and NBA Teams, Awards Shows (Brit Awards, BAFTAs), Major Cultural and Government Events (The Coronation of King Charles, Winter Wonderland) to name a few.

Accredit recognises the value of flexible working and embraces hybrid working, allowing our people to work from home up to 40% of their working time. We do however remain committed to working together in person for the remaining 60% of time so that we can learn, grow and succeed together.

The company is an equal opportunities recruiter and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Job Purpose:

To perform DevSecOps & CloudOps functions to support the Accredit Solutions SaaS global platform ensuring it is always available and secure. To be responsible for monitoring and maintaining our AWS infrastructure, ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our systems. This role is critical in supporting our development and operations teams to deliver high-quality services to our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the existing multi-region cloud environment on sizing, backup and recovery, performance management, tuning and patching servers and remediating Security findings.
• Continuously monitor system performance and availability, ensuring SLAs are met.
• Utilise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CDKTF, Terrascan, Terraform Docs, CloudFormation for efficient infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Monitor, identify, mitigate, and troubleshoot AWS and challenging migration/upgrade issues.
• Database maintenance for RDS instances, including sizing and provisioning, index maintenance and monitoring of logs and database alarms.
• Support the application development teams with any performance issues.
• Maintain CloudWatch and Datadog alerts to monitor existing architecture.
• Cost Management & Optimisation: Track usage, analyse costs, and make recommendations to optimise cloud spend.
• Respond to and resolve incidents promptly, performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure timely resolution of issues.
• Develop and implement SecOps automation and runbooks to enhance security operations, streamline incident response, and ensure compliance
• Ensure that CloudOps, IaC & associated processes align with any applicable information security requirements.

Skills:

• Expert level AWS experience in a DevOps role designing, developing, testing, integrating, and deploying and migrating mission critical applications and services to AWS environment(s).
• 3 Years experience of hands-on AWS experience implementing, migrating, managing, and operating systems/applications to AWS environments.
• Knowledge of RDS, EC2, FSx, AWS Backup, System Manger, CloudWatch monitoring and alerts, AWS storage, S3 Buckets, Load Balancing, Route 53, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub.
• Experience working in .NET development environment using C# and SQL Server. • Experience working with SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with Windows and Linux Server.
• Experience working with Containers
• Experience working with Jenkins
• Experience working with Powershell scripting
• Experience of implementing scaling of AWS servers.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise tasks and quickly adjust in a rapidly changing environment
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality software.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to mentor other members of the team.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience of working with remote teams
• An interest in sports and major events
• Ability to work independently, proactive and self-managed
• Desire to learn new technologies

Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (desired)
• AWS Certified Devops Engineer (desired)

Equal Opportunity

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.