Lead DevOps Engineer

Ferrygrid employs 2,400 people across engineering hubs in London and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

The position:

We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. Ferrygrid is hiring for the Lead DevOps Engineer role to own our build pipelines, cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling. We are headquartered in London and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Working hours overlap with UK business hours.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched
• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Handle secrets with HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions

What you need:

• Calm under pressure during outages
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production
• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch
• Scripting in Bash and Python

Nice to have:

• Packer for image builds
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification
• Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits

$10.00 - $11.50 per hour

Pay and benefits:

• Long-term engagement
• Monthly internet allowance

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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