DevOps Engineer in Middlesbrough

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion. We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving our infrastructure to support the development and deployment of our software solutions and platform for the construction industry. The DevOps Engineer will also play a crucial role in optimising and managing our cloud infrastructure that supports our customer facing products and services. To be successful, you will need to collaborate closely with our product and engineering teams to streamline deployment processes, automate tasks, and enhance the overall efficiency of our operations.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the engineering teams to develop and maintain best practices for CI/CD pipelines to enable smooth and rapid delivery of code to production environments.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively identify and address performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and other operational concerns.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including product development, customer services and data teams) to optimise application performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and uptime in accordance with SLAs.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimise infrastructure costs, increase operational efficiency, and enhance overall reliability and performance.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in DevOps to recommend and implement innovative solutions that drive business value.
• Act as the escalation point from members of the IT team working the internal helpdesk system for cloud application related issues.
• Create and maintain technical documentation of systems, procedures, and workflows to ensure knowledge is shared amongst other members of the team.
• Support the cost optimisation of the Cloud solutions, identifying opportunities to manage spend and working with the teams to be financially performant.

The essentials we need from you

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and automation.
• Strong proficiency in at least one cloud platform (AWS preferable) and hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) for deploying and managing services-based applications.
• Experience in scripting and automation methods such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, Powershell.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of working in a medium to large enterprise with multiple stakeholders to manage.

Desirable Skills

• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Azure DevOps) for automating software delivery pipelines.
• Knowledge of ISO27001 (Information Security) desirable.
• Able to focus on detail, be a good completer/finisher and produce high quality and auditable deliverables.

What you get from us:

If you’re looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition. Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Our Values

• We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.
• We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.
• We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.
• We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars:

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies, Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.