Senior Devops Engineer

DevOps Engineer

The Dev Ops Team is about ensuring all the Opayo Web Applications are delivered through Development, Test and Productions environments in an automated Continuous Delivery manner. Opayo is a high transactional environment and applications are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The team ensures that the Opayo core applications are maintained, monitored and issues are responded to and resolved in line with departmental SLAs.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Maintaining and supporting Opayo Payments Applications, using monitoring tools to detect failures and investigating/resolving issues and writing custom monitoring scripts
• Working with the development teams to help design new products and architecting new solutions
• Monitor Live environment to detect failures and investigate/resolve issues
• Work closely with the Development & Test Teams to deploy software releases
• Support production systems as required inside and outside of standard working hours.
• Reducing the overhead of BAU and manual tasks and replacing them with automated solutions
• Actively contributing to the process of continual improvement, with regard to self, team and the systems you support
• Actively participating in departmental projects as per the technology roadmap
• Working with 3rd parties and partners to ensure product compliance and stability

Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have:

• Extensive experience of AWS
• Extensive experience of scripting languages
• Extensive experience of monitoring tools (SumoLogic, New Relic)
• Extensive experience of automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform)
• Extensive experience of working in a DevOps support model
• Experience of working in a highly available, high transaction, production environment
• Demonstrable experience communicating in a fast-paced, results-oriented, team-based environment

• Preferred: Proven experience of payment gateways

Key performance indicators:

• System uptime and downtime is in accordance with Operational SLAs
• Ensure all releases follow defined processes and procedures
• Participation in Oncall rota (additional on-call allowance)
• Objectives achieved through scripts maintained in source control

• Key stakeholders:
• Operations, Database, Infrastructure and Network Teams
• Agile scrum Teams.
• Security Team.

Location:

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.