Senior DevOps Engineer

Are you passionate about secure, scalable and repeatable infrastructure, observability, optimization, and continuous deployment? Are you an expert in Google Cloud or AWS; Terraform, Ansible, GitLab or other Configuration Management, and CI/CD tools? Do you have experience working with cloud native services operations like Serverless Containers (e.g. Cloud Run, Fargate), Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm? 

The University of Cambridge's Information Services is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer. You will join a large, multidisciplinary team, building and operating new high-profile bespoke web systems and cloud native services, as well as modernising existing ones to bring them up to the same new standards. 

This is a remote or hybrid position, depending on the candidate, with amazing benefits, like a defined benefit pension and 41 days of annual leave. 

This role comprises a base salary of £43,414 - £61,823 plus a market supplement of up to £18,177.

Our standard technology stack is: AWS, GCP, Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, Python, Django, React, Material UI and Typescript. We maintain a DevOps culture and use Scrum for our day to day work. We have also adopted an "open by default" approach to new work and thus you can find much of our work to date in our GitLab. The team also produces a Guidebook that collects team's practices and useful information at https://guidebook.devops.uis.cam.ac.uk/ 

Day to day, you will:

• Advise and work together with developers on infrastructure, architecture, security, maintenance, scalability, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Use Terraform to create repeatable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. We use Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. A typical infrastructure deployment of one of our products in Google Cloud will have a managed SQL instance, Cloud Run (Knative) or GKE with Helm, Object Storage, GCP Secret Manager, and monitoring and alerting.
• Help developers build good quality Dockerfiles.
• Create GitLab CI configuration that:
  • Builds an efficient and secure production container
  • Integrates with GitLab's built in security tools
  • Runs automated unit, integration, and functional tests using a production container and reports on code coverage and code quality
  • Auto-deploys a protected branch to staging and allows deployers to deploy to production on demand by using GitLab's UI
• Be responsible for having a good monitoring and alerting setup that can predict and alert when there is going to be a problem that will require manual intervention. Also for having a good setup that can report errors/bugs to GitLab. 

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience working alongside developers in a multidisciplinary team.
• Loves DevOps culture.
• Enjoys training and mentoring other engineers.
• Can explain in detail all the advantages of using containers.
• Takes security very seriously and has experience designing and implementing deployment solutions that follow the principle of least privilege.
• Knows when it's better to use Knative, when it's not, and where the potential dragons lie in K8s multi-tenancies.
• Is capable of cutting cloud bills by optimising resource utilisation.

For further information please visit: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference VC35120 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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