devops engineer Crewe, England
Job description
Heard of us?
We’re an ambitious, forward-thinking global business who build transformative solutions for our customers to deliver best-in-class sustainable mobility, connectivity, and technology solutions. We support our customers with a range of products and services to meet their needs.
Since 1990 our ambition has never wavered. From humble beginnings, our vision and drive has seen us venture into new markets with confidence and stay ahead of market trends.
Our mission is to help businesses of all sizes adapt to the future and take advantage of the opportunities that change brings. Sustainability is at the core of our offering. With our leading e-mobility solutions, we’re committed to guiding businesses through the energy transition, building solutions for a more sustainable, connected future.
This is where you come in. We are on a journey of growth. We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of technology innovation and we invite you along on this journey.
The role …
We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to support the growing, complex application infrastructure within our dedicated vehicle telematics business, Radius Telematics.
Radius Telematics track 12 billion miles of travel annually, with 600,000 tracked assets throughout the world. A range of platforms support this portfolio of tracked assets and the terabytes of data that it generates.
As DevOps Engineer you will report into the Telematics CTO and support the deployment, automation, configuration, scaling and monitoring of our application portfolio.
The role is based from our head office in Crewe, Cheshire, with plenty of remote working flexibility available.
What would your day to day look like?
Typical work activities include:
Build automation- Deployment Automation through IAC
- Test infrastructure deployment & scaling
- Application configuration
- Migrating applications to HA configurations
- Database deployment
- Load testing and capacity planning
- Application monitoring
- Incident investigation
What do we expect of you?
The essential skills/attributes are: -
A background in automating application deployment and configuration management- Knowledge of IAC technologies such as Cloudformation or Terraform
- Strong Linux Sysadmin skills
- Good knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Good knowledge of internet communication concepts and protocols - TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP
- Experience of deploying Continuous Integration solutions
- An awareness of security considerations in web application deployment
- Monitoring / Logging aka ELK, Prometheus / Grafana etc
- Strong AWS knowledge – EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, networking, cost management
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated – working to brief with limited supervision
- Creative in applying new technology to build innovative solutions
The desirable skills – any of the following would be advantageous: -
Experience of Postgres and Mysql administration and replication- Monitoring / Logging aka ELK, Prometheus / Grafana etc
- Strong understanding of SDLC (Software development lifecycle)
- Factor app knowledge
- Knowledge of common web servers - Nginx, Apache
- Working knowledge of SSL certificate deployment, config hardening and domain registration
- Experience of running non-trivial applications on AWS
- Familiarity with Python application deployment - WSGI, PIP, VirtualEnv
- Scripting Skills - Bash, Python
- Experience with load testing and scaling applications
What can you expect of us?
We have ambitious plans, and our telematics division will be one of the driving forces behind that growth.
As a DevOps Engineer within Radius Telematics, you will be at the forefront of our journey as a technology-driven organisation. For you that means interesting work and plenty of ongoing opportunity for progression.
Anyone joining Radius can expect:
A friendly culture that mirrors our proposition to our customers.- A fast-growing organisation that defines itself as being agile and innovative
- A drive for continuous improvement, which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
- A commitment to building a working environment that values inclusivity, innovation, agility, and drive.
- An accessible and approachable management team
- A modern purpose-built space in Crewe that will provide you with an outstanding working environment (complete with onsite gym, cafe, games rooms, and coffee bar style break out areas).
And of course, you will be compensated competitively, with a good range of core benefits including 25 days holiday, pension, and life assurance.
Still curious?
If you feel we are a good match for each other, you can apply online now!
If you’re interested but not sure if you have all the criteria listed... have a chat with us. We are open to applications from varied backgrounds.
Radius is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background
We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received by Radius will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by the Radius Talent Team.
