Cyberhawk uses drones and software to keep people out of danger and reduce the carbon footprint of our energy and large capital project clients.
We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer who wants to make a big impact and have autonomy and responsibility in a flexible company who value their employees.
This role can be UK remote with infrequent onsite visits, or if you live close to our Edinburgh (Ratho) office - part of our hybrid working team.
About our DevOps opportunity:
Our estate is built mostly on AWS with some other cloud hosted servers using Azure etc. You will be responsible for developing practices and processes that will help us to speed up and automate the process of developing, testing and releasing software, allowing for the continuous delivery of software and software updates. Although there are some DevOps practices in place already, we give everyone a large amount of responsibility and autonomy so you can make a big impact, implement changes and change processes.
What you will be doing:
- Maintaining our platform system infrastructure to ensure maximum reliability and uptime for our customers.
- Promote and build automated processes wherever possible.
- Deploying, maintaining and support our customers’ cloud-based deployments on AWS and sometimes private cloud infrastructure.
- Plan, and execute complex integrations and deployments for customers.
- Define and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
- Improve our build infrastructure and Continuous Integration/Delivery (including code review, and security scanning).
- Identify and recommend appropriate tools and infrastructure necessary to meet the current and future requirements of the business.
- Help us to budget for, procure and manage new and existing services (e.g. EC2, EFS, ECS, S3, Cloudfront, Elasticache, IAM).
- Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
- Organise Subject Matter Expert training of the processes and/or products you support ensuring the rest of the team builds corresponding acumen.
- Collaborate with others in the team to brainstorm the best way to tackle complex technological, infrastructure, security, or development problems.
You would be a good fit for our role if:
- You have good experience with AWS.
- You ring experience updating, patching and upgrading server applications.
- You have knowledge of disaster recovery processes and solutions.
- You have knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) principles and implementations.
- Ideally have experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux in IaaS and PaaS environments.
- Ideally have experience with configuration management software (Terraform, Packer, Chef) in production with LAMP applications.
- Knowledge of Virtualization layers (networking, storage, hyper-visor management).
- You are kind and support others.
- You take ownership, responsibility and pride in your work.
- You are a good problem solver who is able to bring ideas and discuss with colleagues.
It would be advantageous although not necessary if you also have the following skills/experience:
- A working knowledge of container orchestration platforms such as Docker, Podman or Kubernetes.
- Some amount of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) application development experience would be beneficial.
- Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL or RDS.
Our values and what it is like to work here:
We have a no drama way of working.
We work as one team, growing together, sharing our knowledge and skills to help us all succeed and feel valued.
We are a team who cares about the work we are doing and find it rewarding.
We value learning and seeking out new challenges and we are not afraid to make mistakes.
We are open and honest in our communication and trust and respect each other.
We strive to deliver the best results and deliver work that we are all proud of.
We enjoy our work, contribute and make ourselves heard.
More importantly, we have a laugh and fun whilst doing it!
Some of our benefits:
Competitive salary
Bonus.
Salary Exchange Pension scheme.
Life insurance, Digital GP & Employee Assistance Programme.
Cycle to Work scheme.
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
Monthly adventure draw.
Quarterly team building activities.
Please apply. No candidate will meet every single desired criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.
We are not using recruitment agencies to recruit for this vacancy.
