Cloud Operations Engineer (Edinburgh or UK remote)
FreeAgent
The Role 👷
Are you a cloud computing, infrastructure-as-code, and automation enthusiast? Do you want to work with an increasing portfolio of cloud technologies, and knowledgeable engineers as part of a growing organisation?
As part of the Platform Engineering group, our mission is to build and maintain a reliable, performant, secure infrastructure. Collaborating with the wider engineering team to deliver award-winning accounting software for small businesses.
We’re looking for an engineer with a passion for helping and collaborating with people, and building innovative solutions to do so. Your typical week will involve:
💡 Collaborating with our engineering teams, helping to build secure, high-performing, resilient and efficient solutions.
🏗 Develop, maintain and document a library of re-usable Terraform modules for use by the wider engineering team
🧪 Work with your team to run experiments and ship prototypes to learn how we can improve our platform and maintain our high performance engineering team
🌟 Define, iterate on, and improve best practices and help teams utilise them
📚 Continually expand your knowledge of both our business and technology domain. We have the resources and we give you the time to learn!
🧑🎓 Develop and apply your mentoring and leadership skills
🎉 Celebrating your team’s achievements!
In this role you will largely be working with: AWS (many services), Terraform, Terragrunt, Atlantis, Packer, Ruby, Rails, GitHub Actions, Docker, Linux.
Apps we use: GitHub, G Suite, Notion, Humio, Harness...
You 🙌
We ideally look out for the below, though you do not have to meet all of these, FreeAgent is a great place to gain experience:
- Experience building and supporting production services in AWS
- Infrastructure as Code experience. We don't configure by hand, instead we use Terraform, Terragrunt and Atlantis to make our infrastructure repeatable, versionable and auditable
- Production problem solving and performance optimisation in a cloud environment. We accept that nothing can be perfect and value the time spent digging deep to really try and understand issues
- Pragmatism; being committed to getting things done while understanding tradeoffs
- A high level of self-motivation and self-awareness
- Strong communication and organisation skills
- Security awareness - you understand the importance of security best practices and know how to assess risks and implement mitigations
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