DevOps Engineer

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Role overview

This is a new role. The team has doubled in size over the past year. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. The Release Engineering team supports about 40 developers. We need someone to make deploys faster and less scary. Remote, open to candidates across the UK. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Duties

• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection
• Automate server configuration with Ansible
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM
• Set up monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or CloudWatch

What you need

• 3+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management
• Strong Terraform or CloudFormation skills
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)

Preferred qualifications

• Argo CD or Flux for GitOps
• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd
• Background in software development

Salary range: £72,000 - £97,000 pa

Perks and benefits

• Healthcare cash plan
• Company pension
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Employee assistance programme

Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brassline Ltd.