As a Principle Infrastructure Engineer, you will design cohesive infrastructure architecture, implement a Cloud agnostic ecosystem using DevSecOps and CI/CD best practices, and manage a team. Responsibilities include automation strategies, infrastructure optimization, mentorship, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Job Specification: Principle Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps)
Location: Remote
Position Type: Permanent
Key Responsibilities:
As the Principle Infrastructure Engineer, your primary responsibilities will be:
- Work alongside the Infrastructure Architect to design an efficient, cohesive & deliverable infrastructure architecture design, contributing your extensive experience of DevOps & DevSecOps best practices.
- The design & delivery of a Cloud agnostic ecosystem of tooling and operational processes, based on DevSecOps,CICD & FinOps best practices, to deliver and maintain the Cloud Platform(s) going forward.
- Be the driving technical force behind the delivery & operation of the Cloud Platform Landing Zone(s), primarily on AWS, followed by Azure & GCP, and the business services/applications that operate therein.
You will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams & personnel, where design inputs & requirements are expected to be fluid & changeable.
In addition to technical leadership skills, you will be expected to:
- Manage a small team of Lead Engineer(s) (including recruitment).
- Mentor junior members of the wider team & organisation as/when required.
- Deputise for the Infrastructure Architect as/when required.
Position Overview:
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Define & maintain standards for CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient software & infrastructure delivery.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Define and maintain standards for defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code and templates to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure components using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Automation: Define automation strategies for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration to streamline deployment processes, ensuring consistency and reliability across multiple environments.
- Security: Working closely with the Security Architect, you will be the champion of security within the Platform team.
- Supporting Application Development: Working closely with the Application & Data Architects to provide build & deployment (CICD) tooling & pipelines.
- Infrastructure Maintenance: Ensure the effective monitoring of infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. This will include self-healing capabilities.
- Support for Developers and QA: Collaborate with development and QA teams to provide guidance and support in building automated testing and deployment pipelines.
- Infrastructure Optimization: Identify opportunities for infrastructure optimization, cost reduction, and performance improvement.
- Documentation: Ensure detailed documentation of infrastructure configurations and deployment processes is produced & maintained.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience of Principle or Lead Infrastructure Engineering role(s).
- Demonstrable experience of DevSecOps practices and the promotion thereof.
- Demonstrable experience of building and managing multi-region/environment/account Cloud ecosystems.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (primarily AWS, but Azure &/or Google Cloud is beneficial).
- Proficiency in IaC tools and scripting languages (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python, etc
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Key Technical Skills
- Terraform (Terraform Cloud / HCP Terraform knowledge an advantage)
- GitHub & GitHub Actions
- AWS Organisations
- AWS Control Tower (including Account Factory for Terraform - AFT)
- Python (including curating Python packages
Top Skills
Python
Centric Software London, England Office
222 Regent Street, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom, W1B 5TR
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