Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer (Up to £80,000)

At Immediate, we’re home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and Gardeners World. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events.

We’re the destination for people looking to get more from the things they love. We help inspire them; deepening their knowledge, skills and fuelling their passions, to enjoy more of what life has to offer.

Whether it’s the big things, or the little things; from reaching fitness goals to savouring good food, cultivating outdoor, or indoor, spaces, or enjoying the latest TV sensation with loved ones – we help bring our audiences joy!

About the role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team for some brilliant projects. This is an exciting opportunity to join the WebOps Team, responsible for leading the development of DevOps technologies and configuring, administering & troubleshooting websites, applications and infrastructure configuration tools for multiple large-scale websites.

You will have experience with LAMP and web hosting technologies (Web, database, caching, CDNs, firewalls and load balancers) in cloud and private cloud environments. You will also be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of DevOps tools and automated build and release applications having worked in multisite hosting and development environment.

The Successful candidate would be able to mentor and discipline members on best practices and standards and acting as the prominent voice for quality across the tech department and promote quality-oriented mindset in the department.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will;

• Set up and configure automated configuration, orchestration, build/release and version control applications and environments
• Day to day collaboration with development teams to promote best practice
• Manage AWS / Azure or other cloud technologies
• Build infrastructure for multiple websites and applications utilising web technologies, databases, API’s and Internet caching & CDN technologies
• Design and manage large scale web hosting environments; triage web connectivity and performance issues and carry out root cause analysis
• Mentor Mid/Junior engineers
• Create and maintain network and system documentation
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Manage and Support the CI/CD tools with the team
• DNS Management
• Manage and support the infrastructure, containerisation K8s and Docker.
• Monitor & alert, setting up new dashboards and alerts

• Demonstrable experience with cloud technologies, specifically AWS (EC2, Code Pipeline, Lambda, RDS, Route53, ELBs etc.)
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of implementing, building and maintaining automated & scripted configuration, build/release processes and version control applications
• Experience with Python / Bash scripting
• Experience working with: Terraform, Jenkins, Git / GitHub
• Proven experience and knowledge in containerisation technology, Docker & K8s
• In-depth knowledge of LAMP stack administration and common Linux-based web infrastructure and applications – Varnish, Nginx, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo. Includes scripting, performance tuning and hardening
• Analysing stack traces and performance optimising applications using various monitoring technologies
• In-depth experience of Internet engineering, technologies, processes and protocols, layers 2/3/4/5 incl. TCP/IP, NAT, firewalls, load balancers and WAF
• Comprehensive experience of non-web Internet protocols and technologies, including DNS, SSL/TLS, FTP, SMTP etc.
• Experience designing and administering website and content management publishing systems (WordPress) at scale – CDN-caching/web/application/database
• AWS / EKS Pro qualification
• Solving problems guide the team on best practices and automating the installation / creation of Dashboards

• A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
• Immediate Community webinars, well-being initiatives and Mental Health First aiders
• 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement
• Tailored training and development through our Love Learning platform
• A progressive and transparent culture with clear career progression
• Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy
• Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance
• A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces

We pride ourselves on our open, collaborative, and dynamic culture. This encourages our people to thrive, and give their best whilst being supported, developed, and nurtured. As we care about our people, our environment, and the impact we make, we have an active Diversity & Inclusion network, comprehensive well-being programmes, and clear sustainability strategies.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of all our values and leadership behaviours to ensure Immediate remains a place where everyone feels included and empowered;

We care

We succeed together

We enjoy the ride

We are bold

We never settle

We get on with it

People are at the heart of our business and creating a diverse and inclusive working environment is extremely important to us. Immediate is an equal opportunities employer. We’ll never treat anyone less favourably because of their sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marital/civil partnerships, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief or disability. We’re also committed to supporting applications from those who are returning to work following a career break, maternity leave or caring responsibilities.