DevOps Engineer
Closing Date: 11 September 2024
Ref 6830
Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our forward thinking DDaT team!
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About Digital, Data and Technology at Save the Children UK
We have set out an ambitious vision for Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) at Save the Children.
We see Digital, Data and Technology as the catalysts that will drive our organisational transformation. We want to empower DDaT experts with the agility and customer-centricity to meet the ever-changing needs of their stakeholders, our supporters, and the external context.
We are now working to realise that vision. Our ambitious 3-year strategy sets out to shift us from a traditional IT function with scattered digital and data expertise into a more cohesive user experience-first, product-based approach. As part of a wider organisation change agenda (currently called the Organisation of the Future), we are looking to DDaT to facilitate a lighter process footprint aligned with Agile values, and a digital ready and data enabled workplace.
About the role
This is a technical hands-on role, the successful candidate will be part of a small team whose primary function will be to enable, accelerate and support the developers and testers working on a US/UK multi-tenancy Adobe AEM platform, including supporting on AWS and GCP.
The role will be based remotely with a requirement to be in our Farringdon office for a minimum of 2 times a month.
In this role, you will:
- Provide System Admin support to Save the Children UK with a particular focus on system performance and tuning and supporting User Acceptance testing of its AEM platform.
- Managing, maintaining and patching our cloud infrastructure and availability of services through container-orchestration.
- Ensure that sufficient documentation is in place for all hardware systems in the Integration and Staging environments to enable existing and new team members to support Save the Children UK infrastructure.
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Save the Children resources in order to keep costs low and ensure safety in the workplace. Pro-actively pursue opportunities continuously to reduce costs and increase efficiency of the server support function.
- Ensure a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development to support our growing number of global users and services.
- Work with the 3rd Line infrastructure teams to ensure that all systems and support are aligned with technical and business requirements.
- Manage the provisioning/building/configuring/maintenance of environments using automation where possible.
- Keep abreast of new developments in the provisioning / configuration / deployment / monitoring of environments to help shape our DevOps roadmap.
- Other duties as required in line with skills, experience and role.
About you
Technical Skills:
Essential:
- Good hands on knowledge with AWS and GCP
- Docker / Kubernetes
- Git / GitHub / Bitbucket
- Strong Red Hat & Debian sysadmin skills
- SELinux
- Good CLI and Bash scripting skills
Desirable:
- Jenkins / CircleCI / Bamboo
- Hashicorp Terraform
- Hashicorp Packer
- Good hands on knowledge of TLS
- Nginx / Apache
- Monitoring/Logging/Debugging tools such as Stackdriver or Prometheus
- Experience with AEM
- Experience with Azure and/or 365 services and integration.
- Familiar with scanning for and addressing vulnerabilities
Personal Skills:
- Ability to work in a team, in a fast-paced environment
- Independent and able to put forward new ideas, innovate and drive the team forward.
- Strong attention to detail, astute diagnostic skills
- Ability to solve issues with clear methods while knowing when to take intuitive leaps
- Strategic and forward planning thought process
- Able to guide technical discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences
- A passion for web, open source development and for helping Save the Children to continue to build a quality best of breed digital presence.
What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
- We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
- We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
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