At a Glance
- Tasks: Improve system resiliency and security while collaborating with talented software engineers.
- Company: Join Veeqo, a fast-growing tech company recently acquired by Amazon.
- Benefits: Gain hands-on experience, work in a dynamic environment, and enjoy a dog-friendly office.
- Other info: Exciting career growth opportunities in a supportive and innovative team.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on e-commerce solutions and enhance your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in software development and knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
As a DevOps Engineer at Veeqo, you will be in charge of continuously improving the resiliency and security of the systems that make Veeqo's products and features possible. You will work with several teams of talented software engineers in multiple locations, and build tooling and infrastructure that improves their ability to meet our high standards for operational excellence. This role is a good fit for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and is both creative and technical.
Key job responsibilities:
- Own and operate the infrastructure underpinning Veeqo's e-commerce platform across production, staging and pre-production AWS environments (EKS, Aurora, ElastiCache/Valkey, SQS, Amazon MQ, S3)
- Drive security and compliance delivery: ASR certification, Shepherd risk remediation, environment separation, CVE response and patching
- Execute infrastructure cost optimisation against S-team goals (DRAM reduction, right-sizing, VPA adoption)
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/VQJenkins migration, deployment automation, Terraform)
- Participate in on-call rotation (primary and secondary) for production incident response, triage and resolution
- Deliver infrastructure changes via MCMs (Managed Change Management) with full rollback planning and operational rigour
- Contribute to platform reliability: multi-AZ resilience, monitoring (Prometheus/CloudWatch), alerting and observability
- Support cross-team engineering through tooling, automation and developer experience improvements
- Collaborate with 5 product engineering teams (2PTs) who depend on shared infrastructure
A day in the life:
You start the day triaging alerts and monitoring dashboards. Mid-morning is infrastructure delivery: provisioning resources, writing Infrastructure-as-Code, or reviewing change management plans. After lunch, you're helping product teams debug deployment failures, identifying root causes, and adding automation to prevent recurrence. Later, you prepare your own production changes (patching, upgrading, or scaling) with proper testing, documentation, and peer approval. Some are project-heavy, others operationally heavy. You design it, build it, deploy it, and operate it.
About the team:
Veeqo helps high-growth ecommerce businesses build a slick inventory and fulfillment operation that means the right products get to the right customers at the right time, every time. Veeqo plugs into all the major sales channels and shipping carriers, allowing businesses to manage orders, inventory, picking and packing, shipping, purchasing, reporting and more - all in one platform. Recently acquired by Amazon, Veeqo is going places fast and we are looking for the best talent to join us on our amazing journey!
Qualifications:
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Preferred qualification:
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment
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DevOps Engineer Intern in Swansea employer: Veeqo
Veeqo is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment where creativity and technical skills thrive. Located in Swansea, the company fosters a collaborative culture with opportunities for professional growth, especially in the fast-evolving e-commerce sector. With the recent acquisition by Amazon, employees benefit from enhanced resources and support while enjoying a pet-friendly office atmosphere that promotes a healthy work-life balance.
