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DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

MRJ RecruitmentManchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
10 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

We'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.

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

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 Doing :

  • Lead & 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 For

We're seeking a blend of technical mastery, leadership potential, and a proactive mindset :

  • Cloud & 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 roe and a member of our team will be in touch to guide you through the interview process

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