Staff DevOps Engineer
what3wordsLocation Intelligence company
On-siteLead
Intel Capital
Horizons Ventures
Aramex
German Media Pool
Brand Capital International
Mercedes-Benz
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Staff DevOps Engineer to own and evolve scalable AWS infrastructure.
- •what3words is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own and evolve their scalable, microservices-based architecture on AWS.
- •You will be instrumental in building self-service paths for product teams, ensuring reliability, and implementing security best practices.
- •Key Responsibilities Own infrastructure as code as a governed product.
- •Build self-service paths for product teams.
- •Make reliability a property of the delivery path.
- •Implement a Shift Left Security approach.
- •Treat cloud cost as an engineering responsibility.
- •Requirements Substantial production experience running AWS at scale across multiple accounts.
- •Deep, hands-on experience owning Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and version upgrades.
- •Authored and versioned Terraform modules others depend on.
- •Practical experience with declarative GitOps delivery.
- •Track record of owning CI/CD pipelines for other engineers.
Required skills
KubernetesAWSTerraformCI/CDPythonGoLinuxDockerPrometheusGrafanaGitHub Actions
Nice-to-have skills
Google Cloud
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary, Flexible working, 6 week remote working (work from anywhere) policy, 25 days holiday: plus the option to buy more!, Share options, Private health insurance, Wellbeing Days, Generous parental leave policies, Family friendly policies, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Lunch & learn sessions, Team social budget
Tech stack
KubernetesAWSEKSTerraformGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaGoPythonGoogle CloudCI/CDDockerLinux