Director of DevOps

Recruiter
Computer Futures
Location
Bath
Salary
Competitive
Posted
27 Apr 2017
Closes
22 May 2017
Sectors
IT
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Director of DevOps

Director of DevOps needed by rapidly expanding Software House in Bath.

How your day will look;

* Lead the infrastructure to run our many services and several DBs (over 27 Terabytes of Data).
* Own and maintain the several database technologies used i.e. MongoDB, Redis, Elasitcsearch, InfluxDB.
* Develop and improve monitoring and maintenance tools for product portfolio.
* Build automation where possible, find the latest and greatest technologies to make your life easier.
* Ensure servers and apps are aligned with the latest security updates.
* Use modern service oriented architecture approach to infrastructure design.
* Design with service discovery and ephemeral infrastructure in mind.

Technology being used;

* Google Cloud (GCE)
* Linux (Ubuntu LTS)
* Docker (Bugsnag Enterprise)
* Rails, Go, Node.js, Java, Python
* MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
* InfluxDB, Grafana, Collectd
* Chef, Vagrant, Packer, Terraform

The following skills are required. However, the company will not expect you to have outstanding experience within each category, and will help to provide daily support in areas of;

* 5+ years' software engineering and or DevOps experience.
* Passionate about building better tools for developers and making developers happy.
* Experience with Chef/Puppet/Ansible or similar and standard methodologies involved with maintaining a large server deployment.
* Experienced with running large datasets, preferably in Elasticsearch or MongoDB.
* A love for taking projects end-to-end, are able to self-organize and manage expectations, and able to get into the details when necessary.
* Experience working cross-functionally to facilitate the many different infrastructure needs from the whole company.
* Open to new technologies and languages as we need to support a wide variety.
* Choose the right tools for the job.
* Metrics driven and will approach each decision with data to help facilitate decisions or drive development.

Based in the heart of Bath, the offices are open plan and state-of-the-art. Where you will be joining a thriving company, home to almost 50 employees with a hands-on management team.

You will be given free lunch every day, along with your own choice of laptop & phone.

Are you ready to take the next exciting step in your career? If so, please click the apply button or contact me directly on ##### ######. Advertised through Zoek.

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