DevOps Engineer

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This range is provided by MRJ Recruitment. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.Base pay rangeWe're seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a pioneering tech company. This is a chance to significantly influence their core infrastructure and lead a dedicated platform sub-team.Up to £62k (DOE) | Remote-first in Manchester (with one monthly meetup)You'll be instrumental in shaping their technical landscape, focusing on infrastructure evolution, environment optimisation, and refining CI/CD processes. A key part of this role involves leading a platform sub-team, offering crucial technical guidance, and mentoring individuals.A significant greenfield element involves rebuilding substantial parts of their infrastructure, migrating it from Bitbucket to GitHub. Our client champions a strong DevOps culture, so you'll be a central figure in advocating for scalable infrastructure and robust platform engineering principles. This means close collaboration with development, QA, and SRE teams to build secure, cost-effective, and repeatable systems. You'll blend deep technical work with impactful leadership, needing a solid grasp of production operations, incident response, Infrastructure as Code, and modern best practices.What You'll Be DoingLead & Innovate: Guide the platform team's workstreams, delivering impactful infrastructure projects, including rebuilding existing infrastructure from Bitbucket and migrating to GitHub.Optimise Workflows: Standardise and manage CI/CD processes, promoting automation.Empower Teams: Develop self-service tooling with Dev, QA, and SRE.Ensure Consistency: Harmonise lower environments with production.Team Development: Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.Knowledge Ownership: Create comprehensive documentation for platform tooling, CI/CD, and IaC.Skills We\'re Looking ForCloud & Production Expertise: Extensive experience with production-grade infrastructure, particularly AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM).Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise with Terraform.CI/CD Migration Experience: Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI), especially within migration projects (e.g., from Bitbucket to GitHub).Containerization: Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.Core Fundamentals: Solid understanding of networking, IAM, and platform security.Database Acumen: Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and data warehouses (MySQL, DynamoDB, Snowflake).Scripting Versatility: Proficient in Bash, Python, or Go.Mentorship: Proven experience mentoring individuals and fostering team growth.Collaboration: Excellent communication and teamwork.Ready to lead critical infrastructure rebuilds and mentor a talented team in a flexible, remote-first environment? Apply to the role and a member of our team will be in touch to guide you through the interview process #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Location:
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Job Type:
FullTime

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