Hybrid DevOps Engineer

at Causeway Geotech Ltd

• Job title: DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cloud, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

About the role

• DevOps Engineer maintaining infrastructure and optimizing cloud solutions for construction software. Collaborating with teams to enhance application performance and streamline deployment processes.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the engineering teams to develop and maintain best practices for CI/CD pipelines to enable smooth and rapid delivery of code to production environments.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively identify and address performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and other operational concerns.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including product development, customer services and data teams) to optimise application performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and uptime in accordance with SLAs.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimise infrastructure costs, increase operational efficiency, and enhance overall reliability and performance.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in DevOps to recommend and implement innovative solutions that drive business value.
• Act as the escalation point from members of the IT team working the internal helpdesk system for cloud application related issues.
• Create and maintain technical documentation of systems, procedures, and workflows to ensure knowledge is shared amongst other members of the team.
• Support the cost optimisation of the Cloud solutions, identifying opportunities to manage spend and working with the teams to be financial performant.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and automation.
• Strong proficiency in at least one cloud platform (AWS preferable) and hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) for deploying and managing services-based applications.
• Experience in scripting and automation methods such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, Powershell.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of working in a medium to large enterprise with multiple stakeholders to manage.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.