DevOps Engineer
Role Summary
As a DevOps Engineerat Sophos, you will be instrumental in evolving our development lifecycle. You will facilitate, automate, and scale the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of our large-scale cloud-native SaaS and on-premises applications.
By leveraging your expertise in AWS and Kubernetes, you will streamline our CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, frequent, and reliable automated builds. Beyond technical implementation, you will act as a mentor-teaching and assisting engineering teams to build, manage, and monitor high-performance cloud applications with increased agility.
What you will do
Platform Management:Take ownership of the management and ongoing maintenance of our Kubernetes platforms.
Cross-Team Collaboration:Work closely with multiple development squads to identify requirements for building and deploying complex applications.
AWS Automation:Design and implement the automated deployment and configuration of cloud-application workloads within AWS.
Observability:Develop, advise on, and troubleshoot monitoring and management frameworks for cloud-resident workloads.
Consultancy:Assist engineering teams in architecting manageable, scalable, and highly observable cloud-native applications.
Incident Resolution:Troubleshoot and resolve environment and configuration issues. Analyse logs and monitoring data to proactively communicate potential risks to stakeholders.
Environment Orchestration:Manage and communicate the state, versioning, and availability of various environments to Developers, QA, and wider team members.
Tooling Excellence:Maintain and optimise shared development tools for branching, tagging, building, releasing, and reporting.
Willingness to provide on-call support on weekend (once in a month)
What you will bring
- 6+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer.
- Containerisation:Practical experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, or Rancher.
- Technical Background:Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar languages to automate repetitive tasks.
- Linux Mastery:Proficiency with Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS).
- CI/CD:A deep understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery principles.
- AWS Expertise:A broad knowledge of AWS services, specifically CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, and EKS.
- Version Control:Expert use of Git and GitHub within a distributed team environment.
- Monitoring & Alerting:Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting using tools like PagerDuty, Zabbix, and LogicMonitor for system health visibility, alerting, and incident response.
- Certification: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administration.
- Ansible experience
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Soft Skills:Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions both internally and externally.
Essential:
Desirable