DevOps Engineer Horsham, England
Job description
Location: Horsham (UK)
Salary: £35,000-£45,000
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:00 (37.5 hours)
Please only apply to this role if you are able to reliably commute to the Horsham Office.
Overview:
Metricell is on a mission to deliver connectivity. We work with our customers in the telecommunications industry to design, deliver and manage wireless communication networks – with a shared ambition of achieving flawless network experience.
Our entrepreneurial team shares a passion for technology, and we provide a great environment for you to grow and develop your career. Together, we achieve breakthrough results for our clients. You will be expected to play your part, right from the start.
An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join a market-leading telecommunications company and join our growing Operations team to help us build functional systems that improve internal and external customer experience. We are looking for a DevOps engineer who can be responsible for deploying product updates, improve our monitoring solutions, identify production issues, and implementing integrations that meet our customers’ needs.
The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering and be familiar with automating release processes and best practices, and will work with developers and engineers to ensure that software development follows established processes and works as intended.
Do you want to make a big impact in a small amount of time? Are you a talented team player with bags of self-motivation? If so, we want to hear from you!
Your day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Building and implementing new internal tools and infrastructure to help improve the full development lifecycle
- Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying them to developers
- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Working on monitoring our internal tools and applications
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes
- Being a key intermediary between our Web Operations and Development Team.
- Identifying and correcting weaknesses in the current monitoring capabilities
- Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Responsibilities
- Deploy updates and fixes of our latest software solutions
- Build tools to reduce occurrence of errors and improve customer experience
- Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
- Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues
- Develop scripts to automate virtualisation
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
We require you to have:
- Experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar software engineering role
- Proficiency with Git and GitLab CLI workflows
- High Proficiency in Linux CLI (Ideally Ubuntu)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL server or another data store such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Experience of monitoring tools such as Zabbix, PRTG or Prometheus.
- Exposure to Docker or Kubernetes.
- Good knowledge of scripting via Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
- Great attention to detail
- Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.
Desirable:
- Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field
- Experience in developing/engineering applications for a medium or large company
- Exposure to IAC tools such as Terraform.
- Any exposure or experience of Application Performance Monitoring Tools such as New Relic or Dynatrace.
- Exposure to Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Puppet and Chef.
- Experience working with automation testing tools such as Selenium and Appium
- Any experience or exposure to Centralised Logging tools such as GrayLog or the Elastic Stack.
- Experience or knowledge of Vmware infrastructure would be beneficial
Benefits:
- Additional day off for your Birthday
- 2 days volunteering leave per year
- 25 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Vitality private health care (following 6 month probation)
- Bike2Work Scheme
- Childcare vouchers
- Pension scheme
- Performance bonus scheme
- EMI share scheme
- Gym, showers and games room
- Social club with regular events
- Career development
- Generous annual training budget
- Apprenticeships including Degree Apprenticeships supported
- Charity and fund raising events
- Hybrid working an option after 3 months
We are a young and entrepreneurial software company based in Horsham, only 10 minutes’ walk from the train station. If you prefer to drive, we have onsite car parking at the premises too.
We’ve been on the forefront of network connectivity for over ten years and our solutions are helping governments, network operators and everyday businesses around the world to become Better Connected. We are immensely proud to have been awarded the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise. This award is recognition of how our crowdsourcing technology is helping customers around the world to measure and monitor network performance: from Wi-Fi hotspots to mobile coverage. Our products use the latest technologies and span a range of areas, predominantly within the Telecommunications space including; test and measurement, crowdsourcing, digital customer case / self-service, geospatial intelligence and network visualisation.
Our innovative, market-leading software is in use by tens of thousands of personnel working for some of the world’s largest mobile network operators for the benefit of millions of their subscribers. But the product is only as good as our people! Metricell is headquartered in the UK but we also operate internationally. Our headcount has increased tenfold in the last 10 years.
As well as being a local business, we make great effort to make sure our office space is the best it can be, with a fully equipped gym, subsidised canteen and large social space with a pool table and table football. We hold various social events throughout the year, these include; escape rooms, competitions, summer parties, variety of sports and our notorious game shows and quizzes! We organise numerous charity events throughout the year including, London to Brighton bike ride, Tough Mudder, Lockdown Head Shave, Silent Auction, and our popular Christmas Raffle, in order to raise money for fantastic causes in our local area. Some of charities we have supported include; Horsham Matters, Chestnut Tree House, Stonewall, Horsham district food bank and the NSPCC.
You can find out more about us here www.metricell.com/about
Are you the experienced, and talented ‘DevOps Engineer" that we are looking for? If so, please click the “apply” button today to submit your CV for consideration.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Application question(s):
- Are you within 1 hour commute to Horsham, West Sussex?
Experience:
- DevOps: 2 years (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Horsham
