DevOps Engineer London, England
Job description
To further our expansion, we are now recruiting for a new DevOps Platform Engineer to align to our direct-to-consumer development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping deliver continuous improvement for our award winning client facing applications.
Responsibilities:
- Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and building a high-performance engineering team
- To guide and mentor the team to design and deliver high quality products
- Consider architectural and non-functional requirements and work with the team to deliver
- Contribute to the design, management & maintenance of our AWS hosted infrastructure covering our dev, UAT and production environments.
- Hands on with the ability to have direct impact on the future of our products and platforms
- You will be working closely with other engineers across development, architecture and devOps
- Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform.
- Problem management and root cause analysis.
What we’re looking for from you:
- Experience delivering & maintaining an application stack on AWS
- Experience with Microsoft Windows Server and Linux server configuration and management
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, AWS codepipelines) – build, test, and deploy in an automated pipeline or workflow
- Experience with CDK / Typescript
- Experience with AWS Lambda and API Gateway
- Knowledge of scripting languages – Bash, Groovy, PowerShell
- Knowledge of with containers creation and management
- Knowledge of source control, i.e. Bitbucket, GitHub
- Experience with micro services architecture
- Database experience with MongoDB, MySQL
- Comfortable in an Agile product engineering environment
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal
- Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm
- E-commerce and/or financial services experience beneficial
Desirable skills and experience you can also bring:
- Containerisation (Docker and AWS ECS or similar)
- Linux and Windows, with emphasis on scripting and automation.
- Automation tools, focusing on deployments through CodeBuild and CodePipeline.
- AWS-based capacity and performance logging and monitoring solutions.
- Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and scalable web sites, mobile apps and public APIs.
About us:
AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 449,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £71.5 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1100 employees and have been named one of the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for five consecutive years.
There are opportunities for growth and professional development for employees wanting to progress within their career including induction training and our study support scheme which is part of our benefits package.
There is an active programme of social events throughout the year, which are open to all employees.
In return for your hard work you will be entitled to:
- Competitive starting salary
- Generous holiday allowance increasing up to 30 days with service, plus bank holidays
- Holiday buy/sell scheme
- Hybrid working policy
- Casual dress code
- Discretionary bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
- Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
- Buy as you earn share scheme
- Free share scheme
- Paid study support for qualifications
- Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme from day one
- Bike loan
- Season ticket loan portal
- Discounted PMI and Dental
- Free gym
- Paid volunteering opportunities
- Free social events and more
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
