DevOps Engineer - remote with occasional travel to Sheffield

About The Role

Are you a DevOps engineer who is passionate about designing, deploying and maintaining scalable, highly available and event driven AWS infrastructure? If so, we have excellent opportunities available!

We're looking for technically skilled and versatile DevOps Engineers with a passion for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and AWS services through Infrastructure as Code to aid the growth of Shelby Finance services.

Working primarily with AWS services, Kubernetes and GitLab which requires experience with Terraform as it is utilised for the vast majority of our AWS infrastructure.

To succeed here you’ll love working at pace, you’ll be adaptable and agile, you’ll have an innovative attitude to contribute heavily to a close-knit team of developers, testers and enjoy working with innovative products and systems.

Theis position requires occasional travel to the Sheffield office.

What you’ll do

• Work with developers to design and implement pipelines using GitLab
• Work with developers to design, implement and deploy AWS services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) based on their requirements
• Work with SecOps to implement best security practices in pipelines and in our AWS infrastructure
• Work to improve observability across our platform
• Build, improve and maintain our Kubernetes clusters
• Use Helm in our pipelines to deploy microservices to our Kubernetes clusters

What we Offer

We provide opportunities to work with some of the most exciting Cloud services and tooling:

• Terraform – Everything we build is through Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes – We use AWS EKS along with tools such as the AWS Load Balancer Controller and External DNS
• Helm – All our Kubernetes deployments are managed by Helm. Microservices deployed to Kubernetes use Helm library charts
• AWS Serverless – We heavily utilise API Gateways, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, Step Functions, Kinesis, CloudFront and S3.
• Gitlab CI – all our Infrastructure and Application deployments are pipelined, jobs run on our own Kubernetes based gitlab runners

We offer fantastic professional development opportunities, dedicated personal development time, new skills growth, technical training, and certifications

Our people receive 25 days holiday with an additional buy/sell option Other benefits include life assurance (4x salary), long service awards, health cash plan, up to 7 % matching pension contribution, Health Assured 24/7 employee assistance and wellbeing services Our DevOps Team have the flexibility of working remotely from home, are supported with a virtual induction and regular team and business-wide interaction

About You

Essential

• Experience in working with Linux
• Understanding of Event Driven Architecture
• Experience with Terraform for AWS infrastructure management
• Experience with AWS serverless technologies such as Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, S3 and CloudFront
• Experience with Pipeline as Code (YAML), preferably with Gitlab
• Strong root cause analysis skills
• Experience in Agile working
• Experience with Bash and Python, Ruby or Golang

Desirable

• AWS / Kubernetes certified engineers will be highly preferred
• Experience using containers and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Exposure to using Helm for Kubernetes deployments
• Experience with Grafana and AWS Cloudwatch Logs / Metrics / Alarms
• DevOps and cloud security awareness

About Us

We’re a forward-thinking consumer finance business offering alternative digital customer-focused products to over 40,000 non-standard finance customers. We thrive on innovation and like working with people who get excited about harnessing the power of digital products and innovative technologies who share the same vision; to deliver fair, straightforward financial products and great customer service.

If you feel you’re the right candidate for the role as our DevOps Engineer, click ‘apply’ now! We’d love to hear from you!