DevOps Specialist
3 weeks ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team at Akixi, a fast-growing and profitable privately-owned company based in West Sussex, UK. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work to accelerate and automate the deployment of applications within production environments and ensure the continual improvement of all systems and processes that go into providing a robust and reliable SaaS product.
The ideal candidate will be a passionate technologist with demonstrable skills in Linux and cloud systems. They will be a proactive problem solver with a passion for automating and optimizing systems to ensure that increasing demand can be met as the business grows. They will also be responsible for administering and maintaining the existing cloud infrastructure and production systems to ensure that customers do not have any issues.
In this role, you will research and recommend ways to improve automation, ease configuration, and reduce human error. You will monitor, maintain, and optimize all aspects of our cloud infrastructure, and ensure service uptime, quality, monitoring, and reliability. Additionally, you will create and maintain system documentation and runbooks, implement and maintain security practices, and contribute expertise to identify options, risk, and potential operational issues.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual who wants to take their career to the next level and work with a talented team to deliver innovative solutions. If you are a seasoned DevOps professional looking for a new challenge, please apply.
Key Responsibilities:
- Research and recommend ways to improve automation, ease configuration, and reduce human error.
- Monitor, maintain, and optimize all aspects of our cloud infrastructure, and ensure service uptime, quality, monitoring, and reliability.
- Create and maintain system documentation and runbooks.
- Implement and maintain security practices.
- Contribute expertise to identify options, risk, and potential operational issues.
- Manage the installation and configuration of solutions.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are designed for and deployed smoothly in a cloud environment.
- Deploy and configure software applications and administer production systems.
- Monitor and troubleshoot system performance and security issues.
- Create and maintain documentation of known service issues and subsequent resolutions.
- Ensure high availability and scalability of our production environments.
- Constantly seek to improve by researching, developing, learning, and keeping up to date with industry best practice and emerging technologies.
- Mentor and supervise junior team members.
Qualifications and Experience – Essential:
- A degree or a specific set of credentials is not essential, but we do expect candidates to have a strong background in systems administration and DevOps with 5+ years of commercial experience.
- Degree (BSc or BEng), or equivalent professional experience, in engineering, information technology, telecommunications, computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Good experience with DevOps engineering and team collaboration.
- Good experience in scripting, such as Python.
- Experience of system administration, design, support, and management.
- Experience of installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux servers.
- Strong proficiency in the administration and scripting of Linux operating systems, preferably Red Hat.
- Extensive cloud platform experience, ideally with AWS and/or Azure.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with SQL database technologies, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and system monitoring.
- A strong desire to improve, innovate, and keep up with the latest technologies.
Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits including 25 days holiday, pension, EV salary sacrifice car scheme, training opportunities, and private medical insurance included for the spouse as well.
We are proud to offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package to attract top talent. If you are a driven and ambitious individual who is looking for a new challenge, please apply today
About Us:
Akixi is a fast-growing and profitable privately-owned company based in West Sussex, UK. Our portfolio of cloud-based real-time call and contact analytics software is delivered through our network of IT and telecoms partners around the world and we have over 7,000 active customer sites. We are proud to have been recognised within the industry, winning the 'Best Analytics Platform' in the UC Awards 2020 and 'Best Call Management Solution' in the Comms National Awards 2020.
Akixi is part of the Cisco Partner Ecosystem and a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program.
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