Dev Ops Engineer
On site
Chorley, United Kingdom
£ 58,000 / year
Full Time
19-03-2025
Job Specifications
Dev Ops Engineer
Salary: £48,336- £58,000
HYBRID WORKING
We are an innovative and market leading software & services company based in Chorley serving clients in the utility sector ranging from new entrants to large existing suppliers. We deliver sophisticated software solutions and managed services in a Private Cloud infrastructure, servicing both traditional and modern real-time, smart energy clients.
This is a key role within our IT Roadmap. With a focus on the continuous evolution of our DevOps structure, which is in its infancy, the successful candidate will have at least 2 years experience working within a Software Development environment.
A hands-on role which will see you join a team of skilled engineers ensuring that all cloud-based infrastructure is accessible, secure, and highly available, implementing industry best practices and tooling. Contributing to the design, implementation, and maintenance of our Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes Architecture.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Implement Hybrid Environments: Contribute to projects transitioning from On-Premises to the cloud, focusing on the shift from VMWare to a cloud native environment, following the lead's directions.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate within a team of engineers on cloud platform projects, supporting tasks related to both System and Cloud aspects, such as reliability, high availability, disaster recovery, and security.
• Team Participation: Engage in regular communication, contribute to discussions during one-on-one sessions, and collaborate with the team leader and other stakeholders.
• Budget Awareness: Assist in managing resources within budget constraints, following the lead's guidance on tagging and cost center management.
• Alignment with Objectives: Ensure that individual tasks align with organizational goals, guided by the lead.
• Incident Support: Participate in the incident management and response function as a supportive team member, following the lead's guidance.
• Availability and Performance Contribution: Collaborate on maintaining the end-to-end availability and performance of the Cloud, following the lead's direction on automated solutions to prevent issue recurrence.
• Learning and Development: Seek mentorship from the team leader, actively participate in skill development, and contribute to technical work under the lead's guidance.
• Container Orchestration Support: Assist in the deployment and scaling of containerized applications within Kubernetes clusters, following the lead's direction on resource allocation and scheduling.
• Monitoring Assistance: Support the implementation of monitoring and observability solutions like Prometheus and Grafana, following the lead's guidance for insights into cluster performance and application behavior.
• Kubernetes Ecosystem Awareness: Stay informed about the Kubernetes ecosystem and follow the lead's guidance on the adoption of new tools and best practices within the organization.
• Automation Assistance: Collaborate on optimizing existing systems, constructing infrastructure, and reducing manual work through automation, following the lead's direction.
• Cost Optimization Awareness: Contribute to efforts aimed at optimizing Cloud and system costs, in line with the lead's guidance.
• Security Compliance: Adhere to Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) standards for system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures, following the lead's guidance to ensure secure solutions.
• Innovation Support: Actively contribute ideas for improvements and innovation to enhance services, guided by the lead's direction.
• Documentation Collaboration: Contribute to maintaining comprehensive documentation of solutions, configurations, and procedures, following the lead's guidance for knowledge sharing and troubleshooting.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams under the lead's guidance.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform.
• Containerization and Microservice Architecture: Production Kubernetes experience, strong knowledge of containers and Kubernetes. knowledge of microservice architecture design. Understanding of helm.
• Cloud Platforms: Strong experience operating cloud platforms at scale in a major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Programming Languages: Experience in writing tooling or applications in Python, Go or Java.
• CI/CD: Hands on experience with GitHub Actions or Jenkins and Gitops tooling such as ArgoCD. Including creating custom actions or pipelines.
• Scripting: Linux Shell.
• AWS Services: Hands-on experience with services such as EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, Networks, Athena, CloudWatch or equivalents.
ABOUT YOU
Innovative Thinker: You are a creative problem solver who seeks out innovative solutions to complex challenges.
Big Picture: Able to take a step back to see the big picture so that effective decisions can be selected
Security Conscious: You have a keen understanding of the importance of security in today's digital landscape and are dedicated to ensuring the utmost protection of customer data.
Documentation Advocate: You recognize the value of clear and organised documentation, making it a priority in your work.
Team Player: Collaboration is second nature to you, and you thrive in a team environment where ideas are shared, and collective goals are achieved.
Adaptive: In a rapidly evolving technology landscape, you remain adaptable and eager to learn about new tools and techniques.
Excellent communication skills: able to explain technical issues and solutions to all levels of the business, and to external stakeholders
Positive can-do attitude: Ability to consume information and maintain a can-do mindset in a business where flexibility and change is paramount
Good commercial awareness – used to operating within a service level/service credit regime, experience of supporting high impact, real-time operations
You will be able to demonstrate ESGs key values of
- Excellence: be accountable to deliver our best
- Passion: show how much we care each day
- Integrity: do the right thing when no one is looking
- Collaboration: work together to succeed together
About the Company
We're ESG - and we put the power of data in your hands. We've been supporting our customers for over 2 decades, working with some of the biggest retailers, suppliers and utilities across the world, with over 40 million customer accounts using our market messaging, billing, analytics and customer relationship management solutions. Our energy smart cloud powers billions of rows of data, combining with cutting edge analytics and unbeatable industry expertise that leads to data-driven decisions in every area of your business.... Know more
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