Senior DevOps Engineer

A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT US!

Foods Connected is a cloud based software platform that helps retailers and food companies across the world manage their supply chain, quality control and trading and planning management. As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business. At Foods Connected, we recognise that our employees are our most important asset and we value creating a great working environment to ensure our team enjoy working together and solving problems for our customers. Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a Teams call discussing our project statuses or enjoying a game of ping-pong or pool in the office, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.

We’re always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our team. So if you’re driven, with a passion for developing simple software solutions, creating great user experiences, designing scalable solutions for real business challenges and ensuring customer happiness then we’re looking for you!

IS THIS SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU?

As a member of the Foods Connected Development team The Senior DevOps Engineer reports directly to our Director of Development and works to deliver high-quality cloud solutions and helps drive a strong DevOps culture. You will be responsible for the architecture, development, deployment, and operations of our cloud infrastructure. Working closely with our Development teams you will be a champion of DevOps best practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as code, containerization, microservice architecture, automated testing, and security.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work on automating continuous integration build and release pipelines for enterprise scale applications.
• Develop reporting and monitoring tools across the Foods Connected platform.
• Define, measure and enforce cloud security policies, standards, and best practices.
• Mentor engineering and operations staff on unique cloud-based security controls, Secure Coding Practices (to include extensive documentation and training on the ‘why’)
• Act as a key contributor to the development of our developer and CI/CD processes to improve our developer agility and code quality
• Manage mission-critical cloud-based production systems; proactively take action if/when systems are down or there are interruptions in service; root cause and implement corrective actions to build long-term customer loyalty.
• Design applications that work concurrently with client facing solutions and services.
• Improve the quality and speed to market of our lifecycle of services on the platform - from design to deployment to operation and maintenance.
• Owning infrastructure in production, as well as designing and creating build/deploy & monitoring systems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, and 2 years’ relevant experience.
• Certified Azure Expert

Experience Required:

To perform this job successfully, the Senior DevOps Engineer should have experience with:

• 3 + years in cloud technologies preferably Azure.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience with deployment orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, and Elastic Beanstalk.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI or Jenkins.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience with Docker and Docker-Compose.
• Minimum 4+ years with configuration management and automation tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation, SaltStack, Terraform).
• Strong Linux system administration experience.
• Strong programming experience in at least one language (.Net, C#, node, java, go, c/c++, ruby).
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK, DataDog or NewRelic, LogEntries, SumoLogic, etc.

BENEFITS:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Employee Performance Related Bonus
• Clear Career Progression
• Flexible Working Hours
• Matched Employee Pension
• Generous Holiday Package 
• Secure Company Hardware