Senior AWS Engineer
Permanent Job Vacancy | Full Time
Salary: £55,000 – £60,000
Location: Cardiff or Bristol
Is this the start of your DevOpsGroup Journey?
We’re an award winning consultancy with an awesome team of individuals - working together to help clients on their digital transformation journey.
If team work inspires you and you're driven to make a real difference to both people and organisations, we’re always on the lookout for brilliant new team members - Can you add your very own chapter to the DevOpsGroup story?
What You'll Do...
As a team, we are crafting the future legacy of DevOpsGroup and we are looking for more super talented individuals to add their mark. As the team continues to grow, we are looking to meet Senior Engineers to discuss how your future could look with us at DevOpsGroup.
You’ll be working with a variety of technologies and tools such as AWS, Ansible, BASH, GIT, CloudFormation or Terraform (just to name a few!)
Here’s how your first month will look…
- Our People Team have provided you with everything you need to know during your induction
- You are now using the laptop, kit and setup of your choice
- You’ll dive straight into your team stand-ups
- We’ll introduce you to our OKR’s and possibly assigned some of your own
- Steve and James will take you for a co-founder’s lunch
- You’ll be using some of the many features AWS Sandbox has to offer
- You’ve learnt a tech stack you are not familiar with
- You’ve attended your first DevOpsGroup Conference and like all good conferences you are now the proud owner of plenty DevOpsGroup branded SWAG
- As a new starter, the access to our knowledge base and support systems is coming in real handy
- Any queries or concerns? These have been addressed and you’re more than ready for your DevOpsGroup future
By month three…
- You’ve continued pairing with others and work independently on areas you are more familiar with
- As you have full access to our DevOpsGroup Academy, you’ve probably completed some further certifications, such as the Agile and DevOps foundation
- You’ve been involved in implementing client infrastructure
- You are starting to deliver some exciting work for our clients
- Perhaps you’ve got a thing or two wrong along the way, failure is an option at DevOpsGroup and is something we are always learning from
- You may have planned how you’ll be spending your yearly training budget
- You are now familiar with every member of the DevOpsGroup family
- The opportunity to influence architecture has come about once or twice
- You are familiar with a client’s tech stack
- Perhaps you are regularly attending client stand-ups
A full year with DevOpsGroup…
- You’ve added significant value to our client experience
- You’ve assisted on several successful cloud migrations
- Whether it’s stage or screen, the platform is yours and you may be reflecting back on some epic uses of it
- Through our academy, you are helping to champion the next generation of talent
- You continue to be in awe of the rate of change within AWS as your knowledge of this platform continues to grow
- You know what is required of you to achieve the next grade in your career here
- Your wardrobe is now filled with DOG merch
Meet the Voyager Squad
Isabel Robson
Client Success Manager
Jake Morgan
Engineer
Greg Sharpe
Engineer
James Reed
Engineer
Edmund Dipple
Engineer
Sean Robinson
Agile Coach
Dave Grant
Consultant
We’re looking for people who
- Have no fear of change
- Have the right attitude and behaviour
- Stay focused while adapting fast
- Innovate and make extraordinary things happen
- Stay awesome while under pressure
- Grow when faced with challenges
The experience you’ll need
- Minimum 3 years AWS experience
- You may already have an AWS certification or two (pro cert preferred but not essential)
- Deep technical understanding of AWS with validated experience working on build and migration projects
- Experience working with DevOps and automation tools and practices for managing cloud infrastructure
- Excellent communication and client facing skills including the ability to lead and facilitate workshops; give presentations; and produce well written documentation to assist the client
- Broad knowledge of the software development lifecycle from either the development or operations perspectives
- Deep understanding of the DevOps tools landscape and the major areas of DevOps tooling
- Strong dedication to delivering client success
- Any experience with containers would be desirable (Docker or Kubernetes)
Partner and Tech Insight
We’ve built some awesome relationships with our partners, which means we’re always working with the latest tech.
Some of our partners include AWS, Microsoft, AppDynamics, Atlassian, Chef, GitHub, RedGate, RedHat, Puppet… You’ll usually find our partners at our monthly conferences running a session on their latest tech.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at DevOpsGroup. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Come and learn more about us!
Our need to adapt fast has never been greater which is why learning and growing is such an important part of our culture. While we are doing this, we also love to celebrate our individual successes as a team, there’s no glory in winning alone.
Visit our careers page to find out more about our love for learning, our people, Life at DOG, and much more.
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