Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Annalect is looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to work in our Cloud based environment. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be directly responsible for the 24x7 monitoring and maintenance of the Annalect platforms, working closely with technology leadership, and be ultimately responsible for ensuring technology quality.

This individual must have a proven track record of success managing/working in a functional and technical team with a strong sense of quality ownership for existing and new cloud based platforms and features.

This is a hands-on position that requires strategic thinking and planning to provide expertise throughout the entire infrastructure and operational lifecycle, ensuring the success of the team's planning, building, operating, optimizing and automation efforts. This senior team member will provide mentorship and coaching to DevOps engineers and other technology team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supportthe cloud infrastructure for Development, Test, and Production environments.
• Communicate with the product development teams in several geographical locations to produce requirements for infrastructure, networking, and operations toolsets necessary to provision and maintain product lines.
• Review and establish best practices for CI/CD solutions in collaboration with teams.
• Provision and set up all environments (Live, Staging, Dev, QA) and coordinate with teams to ensure environments meet company standards and best practices.
• Perform release and configuration management.
• Act as a technical delivery resource for project specific tasks.
• Build and maintain the core technology platform monitoring services.
• Build and maintain automated deployment of the platform’s cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain secure continuous deployment pipelines and automat continuous security monitoring and alerting using cloud capabilities.
• Help with threat assessment and penetration testing as early as necessary/possible.
• Help identify problem points within the production environment.
• Solve day-to-day operational problems with the production environment.
• Ensure, robust, stable, and secure back-end infrastructure to support product portfolio.
• Support the development team during application enhancements.
• Contribute to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery design.
• Stay up to date with industry trends.
• Maintain JIRA data accuracy
• Ensure top-notch documentation of code, data dictionaries and process flows
• Maintain Documentation on Confluence
• Translating business requirements to technical requirements
• Establish and maintain policy for documentation of all Annalect technology products.
• Provide monthly reporting metrics.
• Document and ensure on the Annalect TIO WIKI platform details utilizing our Confluence site
• Manage the relationship between the Applications team and all Technical Infrastructure and Operations teams – includes being the point of contact for new environments & architectural components when needed
• Work with the AOK (User/Application support team), DevOps and Business Unit teams on any emergency issues

Nice to Haves:

• Hands-on experience in administering cloud technologies on AWS, especially with IAM, VPC, Lambda, EKS, EC2, S3, ECS, CloudFront, ALB, API Gateway, RDS, CodeBuild, SSM, Secret Manager, Lambda, API Gateway etc.
• Familiarity with working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery). Knowledge of Database administration
• Demonstrate experience of using Terraform to provision and configure infrastructure
• Scripting ability – PowerShell, Python, Bash etc. Comfortable working with Linux/Unix based operating systems (Ubuntu preferred)
• Familiarity with software development, CICD and DevOps tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab, CodeBuild, CodePipeline)
• Possess a problem-solving attitude. Creative, self-motivated, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills
• Experience with microservices, containers (Docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes), serverless computing (AWS Lambda) and distributed/scalable systems.
• Experience with continuous deployment / continuous delivery (Jenkins, Bamboo)
• AWS/GCP/Azure Certification is a plus
• Experience in python coding is welcome
• Passion for data-driven software. All of our tools are built on top of data and require work with data.
• Knowledge of IaaS/PaaS architecture with good understanding of Infrastructure and Web Application security
• Experience with logging/monitoring (CloudWatch, Datadog, Loggly, ELK)
• Passion for writing good documentation and creating architecture diagrams

Flexible Working

We are committed to supporting and helping the Annalect have a great work/life balance and a positive attitude to well-being. As part of this we have a flexible and hybrid working model as a core part of how we operate.

We believe flexible & hybrid working can increases individual motivation, improves performance and productivity, and reduces stress as well as helping manage wellbeing generally. We will work with you to implement the best flexible working solution for you without compromising team performance and client delivery.

Employee Benefits

We offer pension contributions, life insurance, health insurance, a generous holiday entitlement and many other employee benefits for all. We have an enhanced maternity leave, shared parental leave, paternity leave pay policy.

Diversity

At Annalect, we are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity & inclusion of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different.

We welcome remarkable people from a broad range of backgrounds who bring their diverse attitudes, opinions, and beliefs into a culture where you are treated with respect and can be comfortable at work just being you. Embracing our differences results in a stimulating and inspiring environment will lead to everyone viewing the world, our work and each other with fresh eyes.

We are keen to encourage applicants from people from all walks of life and we want you to be at your best throughout the recruitment process, please discuss any specific adjustments with a member of the Annalect People team.