AWS DevOps Engineer

Remote and Reading office based

AWS DevOps Engineer

Ciphr has a new opportunity for an AWS DevOps Engineer You’ll be responsible for the completion of tasks to deliver the deployment and maintenance of software products and infrastructure for our SaaS Service. You’ll work closely with other areas in the development team including development, platform, site reliability engineers, testers and other stakeholders to ensure that the software development lifecycle is efficient and effective.

What you 'll be doing

• Manage and take responsibility for the production and pre-production AWS environments for our AWS based products.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, and quality assurance, to ensure that development, deployment, and testing processes are streamlined, efficient, and scalable.
• Support the creation, documentation, and implementation of DevOps processes, standards, and procedures that adhere to industry best practices and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Create and implement automated build, deployment, testing, and monitoring processes to improve software delivery speed, efficiency, and quality.
• Support the analyse system performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and make recommendations to the engineering team to drive system performance and reliability

What we offer you:

Ciphr has a benefits package which has you and your family in mind.

As well as offering you the opportunity to work with a great team, be part of a growing company and have the chance to learn and enhance your knowledge and qualifications, we offer:

• 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Family National Trust Membership
• Birthday day off
• Religious holiday swap
• Family forming support - e.g., time off for family forming appointments or to support your partner
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension
• Health cash plan
• Life assurance
• Technology/home improvements Loans
• Perks at Work - access to exclusive discounts, cinema tickets, etc.
• Regular training
• £1,500 employee referral scheme
• Medical Cover and Dental cover (after 6 months’ service)
• Income Protection insurance (after 12 months’ service)

What good looks like

• Ensure stability, scalability and recoverability of our production AWS environment.
• Deliver efficient and reliable software through the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automation processes.
• Automate processes wherever possible, reducing manual intervention, and improving efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that development, deployment, and testing processes are streamlined, efficient, and scalable, and that product requirements are clear, testable, and achievable.

And we would like you to have the following skills:

Essential

• Extensive experience designing and managing infrastructure using AWS, including ECS, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB and SQS.
• Understanding of disaster recovery planning.
• Knowledge and experience to manage IaC environments via terraform.
• Understanding and experience of DevOps toolchains, CI/CD pipelines and process automation.
• Strong attention to detail and an ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Desire to learn new technologies and continually improve your technical skills.

Desirable

• Knowledge of software build processes in Python and Javascript
• Strong SQL skills, especially Postgres.
• Familiarity with GitHub, GitHub actions, Azure Dev Ops (ADO) and ADO Pipelines.
• Experience in other cloud environments, especially Azure

About Ciphr:

Ciphr is a leading UK-based provider of integrated HR, payroll, learning and recruitment solutions.

Ciphr’s integrated HCM platform helps organisations manage their end-to-end employee lifecycle so they can deliver an amazing employee experience. With Ciphr, organisations can be confident they can access all their people data in one place, thanks to secure, time-saving integrations between our own solutions and API connections to specialist, third-party tools.

Ciphr is all about people. Our values are trust, drive, authenticity, and accountability. We want you to bring your authentic self to work giving you the space to be yourself whether that is creative, outgoing, quiet, courageous, observant or any other attributes you may have. Ciphr welcomes all kinds of people to the team and would love you to come and join us!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £70,000.00-£90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Reading RG1 1PW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

• Will you require sponsorship now or in the future to work in the UK?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Location:

• Reading RG1 1PW (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Reading RG1 1PW

Reference ID: AWSDevOps