Principle Infrastructure Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom
Full Time
R&D (C8)
Experienced
Job Specification: Principle Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)
Location: Remote
Position Type:
Permanent

Key Responsibilities:

As the Principle Infrastructure Engineer, your primary responsibilities will be:
  • Work alongside the Infrastructure Architect to design an efficient, cohesive & deliverable infrastructure architecture design, contributing your extensive experience of DevOps & DevSecOps best practices.
  • The design & delivery of a Cloud agnostic ecosystem of tooling and operational processes, based on DevSecOps,CICD & FinOps best practices, to deliver and maintain the Cloud Platform(s) going forward.
  • Be the driving technical force behind the delivery & operation of the Cloud Platform Landing Zone(s), primarily on AWS, followed by Azure & GCP, and the business services/applications that operate therein.
You will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams & personnel, where design inputs & requirements are expected to be fluid & changeable.

In addition to technical leadership skills, you will be expected to:
  • Manage a small team of Lead Engineer(s) (including recruitment).
  • Mentor junior members of the wider team & organisation as/when required.
  • Deputise for the Infrastructure Architect as/when required.

Position Overview:
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Define & maintain standards for CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient software & infrastructure delivery.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Define and maintain standards for defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code and templates to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure components using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
  • Automation: Define automation strategies for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration to streamline deployment processes, ensuring consistency and reliability across multiple environments.
  • Security: Working closely with the Security Architect, you will be the champion of security within the Platform team.
  • Supporting Application Development: Working closely with the Application & Data Architects to provide build & deployment (CICD) tooling & pipelines.
  • Infrastructure Maintenance: Ensure the effective monitoring of infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. This will include self-healing capabilities.
  • Support for Developers and QA: Collaborate with development and QA teams to provide guidance and support in building automated testing and deployment pipelines.
  • Infrastructure Optimization: Identify opportunities for infrastructure optimization, cost reduction, and performance improvement.
  • Documentation: Ensure detailed documentation of infrastructure configurations and deployment processes is produced & maintained.

Qualifications:
  • Demonstrable experience of Principle or Lead Infrastructure Engineering role(s).
  • Demonstrable experience of DevSecOps practices and the promotion thereof.
  • Demonstrable experience of building and managing multi-region/environment/account Cloud ecosystems.
  • Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices.
  • Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (primarily AWS, but Azure &/or Google Cloud is beneficial).
  • Proficiency in IaC tools and scripting languages (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python, etc
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

Key Technical Skills
  • Terraform (Terraform Cloud / HCP Terraform knowledge an advantage)
  • GitHub & GitHub Actions
  • AWS Organisations
  • AWS Control Tower (including Account Factory for Terraform - AFT)
  • Python (including curating Python packages

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.

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