DevOps Data Engineer

At CDL we are currently looking for a DevOps Data Engineer to come and join our team based in Stockport. Salary is negotiable.

At CDL we pride ourselves on providing a positive and rewarding environment for our people. But don't just take our word for it; we've been awarded the exclusive Top Employers certification in recognition of our outstanding workplace culture.

At CDL, we have been highly successful in developing an Enterprise e-commerce and call centre platform incorporating big data intelligence via CDL Hummingbird, which has been deployed via the cloud. Our aim has been getting to market first and fast.

What we can offer you in return as our DevOps Data Engineer…

Work with the best in the business. We can offer you flexible hours, shuttle bus to and from station, subsidised restaurant, games room, 25 days holiday to start, lots of great social activities, a dress down policy, tax free child care vouchers, life and health assurance, award-nominated learning programmes, community projects and great opportunities for career progression.

About the DevOps Data Engineer role

A technology driven role where you’ll provide your AWS and DevOps ability to aid us in supporting, maintaining, configuring Hummingbird; Big Data real-time enrichment service, which has been deployed into Amazon Web Services, utilising ElasticSearch production system, Microservices architecture, Java 8, and Spring Integration.  You will contribute to the continued growth of the Hummingbird client base as well as the growth of the current client base.  Being the “go to” person for development operations inquiries or any other complex systems related issues. We work in a fast paced environment utilising Scrum, and Kanban practices; running 2 weekly development sprints. One in every 5 sprints is dedicated to innovation, and embracing new technologies, promoting start-up culture.

As our DevOps Data Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to recommend new technology solutions that can add value and improve the Hummingbird product. You may find yourself automating processes using Terra form one day, scripting in Bash, creating EC2 instances, or using ElasticSearch powerful features such as Kibana, and Logstash another day .

This is an ideal career opportunity for an operations engineer, who is keen on learning new technologies, working in an autonomous environment, whilst applying their wealth of experience.  We’d be happy to send you on conferences, training courses, to enhance your knowledge, and experience.

What we’re looking for in our DevOps Data Engineer

You will have a passion to explore technology solutions combined with operational support experience and the following:

- Demonstrable experience in an Operations or System Engineering role.

- Experience of using AWS Cloud

- Sound understanding of ElasticStack (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Watcher, and Logstash)

- Experience or understanding of managing a Linux environment including administration and configuration.

- Experience of using Automations tools such as Terraform

- Proven experience of scripting in Python, Bash, or Perl

- Exposure to continuous integration and build tools

- Understanding of Micro-Services Architecture

Desirable:

- Java 8

- Provisioning via AWS CloudFormation

- AWS Certified Solution Associate

CDL is one of the UK’s leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in developing powerful software solutions for the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. Spearheading developments in aggregators, web and telematics space, including connected home, big data, enrichment and self-service solutions. CDL is a fast growing company providing robust and innovative technologies that enable its customers to thrive in a highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.

If you have a deep interest in technology and are comfortable finding and adopting new technical approaches then come and join us as our new DevOps Data Engineer and click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you.