Lead Devops Engineer

Please apply only if you are willing to relocate to Kochi, Kerala.

An exciting opportunity to join an established UK based company with 20% year on year growth
rate. A rapidly growing UK based software (SaaS) company dedicated to providing cutting-edge
solutions for the logistics and transportation industry. With ongoing investment in new products,
we offer the excitement and innovation of a start-up coupled with the stability and benefits of an
established business.

What would you be doing?

• You will lead our DevOps team in India
• You will help us to adopt Kubernetes across teams
• You will support us in the transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices
• Create and maintain our pipelines
• Help source and recruit talents for the team
• Coach, mentor and develop the other DevOps engineers
• You will ensure our entire infrastructure is codified and can be provisioned with a single command
• Continuously improve DevOps engineering practices
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
• Managing performance and provide constructive feedback, helping the members of your team become the best they can
• Define your career path and embrace the opportunity to grow and learn
• Benefit from working in a multi-disciplinary team, that uses modern software and product development techniques, and values continuous improvement
• You will report to the Head of DevOps

What are we expecting from you?

• 7+ years in a DevOps role, 3+ years as DevOps Lead or similar
• BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience
• You are hands-on (this is a hands-on role)
• Superior knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure, in particular AWS
• Outstanding experience deploying and managing Kubernetes/Docker clusters
• Master of Infrastructure as Code, in particular with Terraform
• Deep knowledge of New Relic and monitoring best practices
• Demonstrable knowledge of microservices oriented architectures
• Familiarity with Multi Region Topologies, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Proxy Servers, SNS, SQS, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
• Capable of architecting frictionless security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
• Good knowledge of configuration management tools, preferably Ansible
• Vast experience with build tools, especially with Jenkins
• Guardian of secrets, hands-on experience with KMS secrets manager and EKS integration
• Custodian of artifacts, experience with Amazon EKS, ECR, Code Artifact
• Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores
• Experience working with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Experienced working in/with Lean, DevOps culture

Nice to have:

• Solid knowledge of Nginx and Apache HTTP Server
• You deployed on production Apache Pulsar
• You deployed on production, and upgraded Apache Open Search
• Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores
• At easy using Python and/or Shell scripting
• Possessing any AWS certification will be an added advantage.