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DevOps Senior Operations Engineer Our Client is looking to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer with at least 5 to 7 years expertise. They are a young talented team building the next generation video advertising platform. The key purpose of this role is focused on development in the capacity of improvements to the systems and operational environment by scripting, automation or building of tools. There are several key areas that require constant development: • Automation – Enhancements to the automation build process. Enhancements are continuously added to the base repository as well as additions of new technologies. • Scripting and Tools – There are many processes, tasks that can be made easier using scripts or custom designed tools in a managed services environment. We are looking for someone with knowledge of networking and storage, virtualization and operating systems, as well as good knowledge of the Architecture side of the role. Ideal skills and experience - what are you bringing to the party? • Experience working in operations - making sure the wheels are greased and the ship is humming along • Automation, Packaging, Deployments (Custom Hypervisor, Puppet, Git, scripting, CI services) • Source Code version control systems: Git & SVN • Monitoring: NewRelic, PagerDuty, etc • Programming Languages: Bash, PHP, GoLang • Virtualisation: We have a custom hypervisor (ZPF) but things like VMWare ESXi/KVM/oVirt/RHEV • Classics: Apache, MySQL, Redis, Varnish • Logstash & Elasticsearch • Networking (switching, routing, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, load balancing, DNS, Cisco, F5, Akamai) • Multi cloud setup - AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Linode etc • DNS, NTP, SMTP, Jenkins • A solid background in Linux System Administration Functions and responsibilities This is a dynamic and varied role, which includes things like: • Build, deployment and maintenance of new and existing environments • Designing and maintaining highly available architectures • Security (patch management, vulnerability scanning & monitoring) • Uptime – design and maintain the systems and networking for uptime, resilience, architecting for failure. • Evaluation of new, cutting-edge technologies to help improve business processes and streamline • Develop highly-available, scalable, robust systems and take ownership of problems as they occur • Undertake ad-hoc out of business hours work for occasional technical support The salary for this role will be in the range £60K - £80K. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

What You'll Do Work in a cross-functional Agile team to design, develop, and deploy solutions. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver secure, reliable systems. Automate workflows and improve deployment processes. Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development and production environments. Contribute to continuous improvement and share knowledge with the team. Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in DevOps and security. What We're Looking For Experience in DevOps or DevSecOps environments. Strong skills in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible). Proficiency in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI). Solid understanding of Linux systems and scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python). Familiarity with security principles , SIEM/SOC tools, or incident response. Knowledge of networking fundamentals and APIs. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Nice to Have Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). Exposure to monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog). Cloud certifications or security accreditations. Understanding of Agile methodologies. Interest in automation, security testing, or threat detection. To find out more about Computer Futures please visit Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales