DevOps Engineer (AWS Focus)
We're seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer with a deep understanding of AWS to maintain and optimize our cloud infrastructure.
Summary:
We're seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer with a deep understanding of AWS to maintain and optimize our cloud infrastructure. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring our systems run smoothly, support project deployments, and proactively identify ways to reduce cloud costs. The ideal candidate is a hands-on problem-solver with extensive experience in AWS environments, a passion for automation and efficiency, and a collaborative spirit to assist developers in navigating deployment challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
Infrastructure Management:
- Design, implement, and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, Fargate, S3, RDS etc.) to support development, testing, and production environments
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues to ensure high availability and reliability.
- Implement automation tools and processes to streamline infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Work closely with development teams to support project deployments and CI/CD pipelines. (TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, BitBucket)
- Continuously evaluate and optimize infrastructure to reduce costs and improve performance.
Deployment Pipeline Support:
- Provide expert assistance to developers when they encounter issues with the deployment pipeline.
- Collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the deployment process.
- Proactively contribute to the improvement and optimization of the CI/CD pipeline.
Project Support:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and design appropriate infrastructure solutions.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews to ensure solutions align with best practices.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to development teams during project implementation.
- Assist in troubleshooting and resolving issues during development and deployment.
Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
- Create and maintain clear and concise technical documentation for infrastructure configurations and processes.
- Share knowledge and best practices with the team through training sessions and documentation.
- Stay up-to-date on AWS technologies and industry trends.
- Willingness to learn new technologies using own initiative.
Out of hours maintenance:
- Some changes will require to be performed outside of core business hours.
Qualifications:
Experience:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or a similar role, with a strong focus on AWS.
- Deep understanding of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, Fargate, S3, RDS and others.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and automation tools (e.g., Ansible).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines focusing on tools like Teamcity and Octopus Deploy.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and implement cost-saving measures in AWS environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work effectively with development teams.
- Experience with Microsoft technologies (C#, .netcore, .netframework)
- Linux / Unix experience is desirable.
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability platforms, monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, DataDog).
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
KPIs:
- 90%+ SLA success rate on Incident resolution
- 95%+ SLA success rate on Patch deployment
- 95%+ Change success rate
- Control of AWS cloud costs
- Department
- IT
- Locations
- Portsmouth, Wimbledon
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Why join Iglu.com?
We might be online, but we're real people who want to make a real impact and work together to create the best experiences for our customers. We've grown a lot and have now created a diverse, flexible, rewarding environment that strives to let everyone be the best version of themselves.
Our social calendar and regular educational trips mean that it is not all hard work. The social committee also allow us to give back to some great causes and initiatives. Plenty of reasons to enjoy life at Iglu.com.
About Iglu.com
Established in 1998, we are the UK and Europe’s largest specialist ski and cruise travel agency, trading through Igluski.com, Iglucruise.com and Planetcruise.co.uk.
Awards: In 2024 we won 2nd Place in Best Workplace in Travel (Large Company Category) at the Best Workplace in Travel Awards we also won Cruise Agency of the Year (Large Category) at the Travel Weekly Agent Achievement Awards, Outstanding Contribution - Princess Cruises, Highly Commended Partnership Achievement - HAL, Highly Commended Partnership Achievement - Carnival, Highly Commended Partnership - P&O Cruises at the Carnival Corporation Awards, also we won the Above & Beyond award at Celebrity Cruises Agent Appreciation Awards. In 2023 we won 3rd Best Workplace (Large Company Category) at the Best Workplaces in Travel Awards, in 2023 we also won Online/Call Centre Agency of the Year at the Travel Weekly Agent Achievement Awards, in 2023 we also won Best Ex-UK Producer in the MSC Champion Awards, in 2023 we also won Bronze in the Best Travel Company for Ski/Winter Sports at the British Travel Awards, in 2023 we also won Favorite Cruise Travel Agent - Highly Commended in the Wave Awards, in 2021 we won Best Large Cruise Agency at the Travel Weekly Agent Achievement Awards, in 2020 we won Top Partner for Cunard and Holland America, in 2020 we also won Best Online Travel Agency at the TTG Top 50 Awards, in 2019 we won CLIA Online Cruise Agent of the Year, Carnival UK Retail Partner of the Year, Princess Cruises Retailer of the Year, took Best Non-Retail Agent at the Wave Awards and also won Best Online Sales (UK) from Costa Cruises. During 2018 we won the Top Cruise, Ocean and River Agency at the TTG Top 50 Travel Agencies 2018 and also won Best Newcomer for the Eurozone 2018 with Royal Caribbean. Back in 2017 we were also recognised in The Leap 100 Fastest Growing Companies 2017.
DevOps Engineer (AWS Focus)
We're seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer with a deep understanding of AWS to maintain and optimize our cloud infrastructure.
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