DevOps Engineer

Immediate is home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and BBC Gardeners World magazine. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team for some brilliant projects. This is an exciting opportunity to join the WebOps Team, responsible for leading the development of DevOps technologies and configuring, administering & troubleshooting websites, applications and infrastructure configuration tools for multiple large-scale websites.

You will have experience with LAMP and web hosting technologies (Web, database, caching, CDNs, firewalls and load balancers) in cloud and private cloud environments. You will also be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of DevOps tools and automated build and release applications having worked in multisite hosting and development environment.

The successful candidate would be able to mentor and discipline members on best practices and standards and act as the prominent voice for quality across the tech department and promote a quality-oriented mindset in the department.

As a DevOps Engineer you will:

• Set up and configure automated configuration, orchestration, build/release and version control applications and environments
• Day to day collaboration with development teams to promote best practice
• Manage AWS / Azure or other cloud technologies
• Build infrastructure for multiple websites and applications utilising web technologies, databases, APIs and Internet caching & CDN technologies
• Design and manage large scale web hosting environments; triage web connectivity and performance issues and carry out root cause analysis
• Mentor Mid/Junior engineers
• Create and maintain network and system documentation
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Manage and support the CI/CD tools with the team
• DNS Management
• Manage and support the infrastructure, containerisation K8s and Docker
• Monitor & alert, setting up new dashboards and alerts

Demonstrable experience with cloud technologies, specifically AWS (EC2, Code Pipeline, Lambda, RDS, Route53, ELBs etc.) In-depth understanding and knowledge of implementing, building and maintaining automated & scripted configuration, build/release processes and version control applications. Experience with Python / Bash scripting. Experience working with: Terraform, Jenkins, Git / GitHub. Proven experience and knowledge in containerisation technology, Docker & K8s. In-depth knowledge of LAMP stack administration and common Linux-based web infrastructure and applications – Varnish, Nginx, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo. Includes scripting, performance tuning and hardening. Analysing stack traces and performance optimising applications using various monitoring technologies. In-depth experience of Internet engineering, technologies, processes and protocols, layers 2/3/4/5 incl. TCP/IP, NAT, firewalls, load balancers and WAF. Comprehensive experience of non-Web Internet protocols and technologies, including DNS, SSL/TLS, FTP, SMTP etc. Experience designing and administering website and content management publishing systems (WordPress) at scale – CDN-caching/web/application/database AWS / EKS Pro qualification.

A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival. Supportive well-being initiatives and benefits, talks & workshops, and Mental Health First aiders & Champions. 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement. Tailored training and development through both our in-house learning platform and LinkedIn Learning. A progressive and transparent culture focused on your development. Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays. Cycle to work scheme. Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy. Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance. A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces.

We pride ourselves on our open, collaborative, and dynamic culture. This encourages our people to thrive, and give their best whilst being supported, developed, and nurtured. As we care about our people, our environment, and the impact we make, we have an active Diversity & Inclusion network, comprehensive well-being programmes, and clear sustainability strategies. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of all our values and leadership behaviours to ensure Immediate remains a place where everyone feels included and empowered.

We care. We succeed together. We enjoy the ride. We are bold. We never settle. We get on with it. People are at the heart of our business and creating a diverse and inclusive working environment is extremely important to us. Immediate is an equal opportunities employer. We’ll never treat anyone less favourably because of their sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marital/civil partnerships, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief or disability. We’re also committed to supporting applications from those who are returning to work following a career break, maternity leave or caring responsibilities.