DevOps Engineer

What that means day to day

• Be a part of the growing DevOps team and work towards implementation of outlined solutions for the various portfolios of our business.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments pertaining to our DevOps Strategy.
• Ship high quality, scalable, secure, and robust solutions.
• Work in squads to ensure that solution design and solution implementation align and evolve together, using an agile mindset.
• Attend squad stand-up meetings, retrospectives, and planning sessions to support successful execution of their missions.
• Participate in collaborative team planning processes (estimating, prioritizing, etc.), and identify significant project milestones and risks.
• Use and be familiar with the latest tools and technologies and be at the forefront of innovation.
• Be talented, highly motivated, and passionate about software quality and continuously strive to improve your skills and the quality of our software products.
• Providing support during the opening hours of the tech support team and 24/7 support via an on-call rota.
• The consideration and application of information security principles within day-to-day tasks.

What you’ll need to be successful

Essential:

• Demonstrable previous experience of working in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Experience designing, building, and implementing CI/CD pipeline(s), ideally within GitHub Actions.
• Experience of implementing “Release on Demand” capabilities within a SaaS model.
• Sound understanding of DevOps tools and technologies.
• Good scripting/automation skills in at least one of the languages such as python, bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience with building docker images, deploying applications in Kubernetes clusters using helmfile and helm charts.
• Experience / knowledge of integrating QA automation and security tools in CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience working with source control tools such as GitHub.
• Excellent documentation skills preferably on confluence.
• Knowledge of agile software development practices.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills ability to approach problems in a structured way and find reliable solutions.

Desirable:

• Experience working with multiple cloud providers like Azure, AWS and GCP.
• Experience in managing container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Keycloak or other tools supporting authentication / authorization.
• Experience working with React, Node, C# and .NET.
• Experience provisioning and configuring infrastructure using IaC solutions.
• An understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP.
• Experience using event streaming platforms like Kafka.

What you’ll get in return

FOR THE HERE AND NOW – We provide a mature and flexible ‘work your way’ culture, generous holiday allowance, a ‘giving day’ to give back to others, enhanced family friendly leave (regardless of gender), an employee assistance programme, 24-hour online GP, gym discounts, cover for a variety of healthcare, dental, optical and wellbeing treatments/services, a cycle to work scheme and paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell.

FOR FUN – You spend a significant percentage of your time with your colleagues (and what a great bunch of people they are!) and it’s important to us that everyone contributes to an environment that is positive and full of laughs. We’ve always got something going on, from charity events and competitions to recognition events and awards and we encourage our teams to get involved and have fun along the way.

FOR THE FUTURE – To set you up for later on in life, we provide an enhanced pension scheme with generous employer contributions and a life assurance policy for peace of mind. We offer a plethora of development resources and support, including access to LinkedIn learning to support you as you develop your career with us. Last year alone we filled nearly 30% of our roles with internal candidates (which equates to almost 50 people being promoted!)

Sound interesting so far?

What you can expect if you apply:

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:
• An initial discovery call with the recruiter
• A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
• Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.

About Alcumus

Who we are:

By this point, you’ll likely have decided if the role sounds up your street, but what about Alcumus as an employer?

Time to introduce ourselves…

We believe that everyone should be able to go home safely from work every night, so we’ve made it our mission to build risk management solutions that are far beyond simple box ticking exercises, instead embracing new and evolving technology that will support our clients to keep their workforce safe.

We’re a PE backed, high growth business that sets ambitious goals, moves at pace, and fails fast. We believe that if you look after your people, they look after everything else, so we place significant emphasis on providing stretch for personal development. Our growth will be your growth.

We value diversity and work hard to foster a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work, each and every day. Every one of our people is unique, and that’s what makes Alcumus stronger as a whole.

What we stand for:

Our values are the core of our business and fundamental to the way we work. In your role, you will;

• Be a team player – working collaboratively and being consciously inclusive with your colleagues
• Be brave – sharing your ideas, challenging the status quo, and taking responsibility for the part you play
• Know your stuff – continuously developing your skills and expertise, with the support from our many learning offerings
• Enjoy the journey – contributing to a positive working environment that enables you and everyone around you to be at their best

Equal Employment Opportunity

Alcumus is an equal opportunity workplace. All candidates will be afforded equal opportunity through the recruiting process. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity and/or expression. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team of highly talented individuals and creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.