DevOps Engineer in Cardiff

Join to apply for the DevOps Engineer role at Veriforce. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to be a key member of the software development team, working to deploy, monitor, and operate our software across key production systems that serve tens of thousands of customers. Your work will have a strong impact on user experience, customer satisfaction, and company growth. We work in an agile environment utilizing modern tools such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Ansible.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering.
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code for both development and production environments.
• Design, implement, and maintain observability and monitoring solutions and monitor the system health, taking action to maintain uptime and performance SLAs, including on-call rotation.
• Design, implement, and maintain continuous delivery systems and advise development teams on code and implementation to increase application resiliency, operability, and best practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes clusters with advanced configuration and features.
• Design, implement, and maintain Kafka clusters with advanced configuration and features.
• Identify points of failure and recommend solutions in our infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• Education level – Bachelor’s degree (B.A) preferable.
• Years of Experience – 3+ relevant experience in DevOps in a SaaS environment.
• Expertise in distributed systems including load balancing, distributed messaging, and distributed databases.
• Expertise in software configuration management (SCM) and tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar.
• Expertise in cloud platforms, primarily AWS.
• Expertise in automated deployment methodologies that support CI/CD/CM using Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions preferable.
• Experience configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters using advanced features including non-standard networking, storage classes/claims, namespacing, and multiple node groups.
• Experience configuring and administering Kafka clusters including disaster recovery mechanisms, data loss prevention techniques, and determining topic configuration to right size for demanding and variable loads.
• Experience with Windows and Linux systems and tools.
• Prior professional application development experience with a particular focus on SaaS applications and web development.
• Knowledge of IP networking, including TCP, UDP, firewalls, SSL.
• Knowledge of software engineering and design principles such as design patterns, architectural patterns, CAP Theorem, event-driven architecture, and similar.
• Must be security-minded at all levels.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills; ability to approach problems in a structured way and find reliable solutions.

Benefits:

• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• Generous annual leave.
• Healthcare Plan.
• Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community.
• Cycle-to-work Scheme.
• Pension scheme with employer contributions.
• Life Assurance – 3X base salary.
• Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback.
• LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development.

Hiring Process:

• A response to your application within 15 working days.
• An interview process consisting of:

• An initial discovery call with the recruiter.
• A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams.
• Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role.

Bring Your Whole Self To Work. Alcumus is proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.