Senior DevOps Engineer

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Belfast

Description

About Us

At Reward, our business sits firmly in the fin-tech market where we have close relations with national and international financial giants and industry leaders. With our diverse range of projects, we combine the best talent across disciplines such as Engineering, Architecture, Design, Product Strategy with cutting edge technology. This is a unique opportunity to become a key member of a truly forward-thinking technology focused organisation. The successful candidate will work with cutting edge technologies such as JavaScript (Angular / Node), .Net Core / .NET 5 +, AWS, IaC, Docker, Fargate and Kubernetes to name a few. But better still, you will play a big part in defining what direction the Tech and DevOps stack goes in the future.

Your day-to-day

As a Senior DevOps engineer at reward working on our loyalty platform in a fast paced, agile environment, you will be contributing to the design and development of our core product infrastructure working with the Engineering Team. The platforms that you build and gain exposure to are used by millions of people every day.

About You

At Reward we want to recruit passionate engineers who are truly interested in their chosen field. Specific languages and frameworks come and go but at Reward we are more interested in your approach as a Senior DevOps Engineer and how you solve problems. The skills that make great engineers are transferrable. If you have passion & knowledge in some of the following technologies, we would be interested in speaking with you. It's an advantage the more you know but we don't expect anyone to have experience of all of them.
• Containerization (we use Docker)
• Orchestration (we use Kubernetes and Fargate)
• Cloud deployment and management (we use AWS)
• IaC (we use Terraform)
• Python / Bash (for scripting / automation).
• CI / CD (we currently use GitHub actions)
• Working in an Agile environment and a solid understanding of Agile methodologies
• Version control (we use GitHub), code reviews and good software working practices.
• Excellent communication to both Technical and non-technical audiences.
• Open to being challenged and willing to continuously learn and improve.

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field, with a strong understanding of microservices and open-source software.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure), infrastructure as code (IaC), containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines. Experience with tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Quality Assurance Expertise: In-depth understanding of quality assurance principles, quality control procedures, and testing methodologies.
• Agile Practices: Experience working in an Agile development environment, with a strong understanding of Agile principles and practices.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions.

Benefits

• Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays
• Ability to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependent)
• Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the office
• Pension: Hargreaves Lansdown - 6% matched contribution
• Employee share scheme
• Generous family friendly cover
• Private healthcare - Bupa
• Income protection
• Critical illness cover
• Life insurance cover
• Dental cover
• Optical cover
• Yulife app for access to employee wellbeing and discounts
• Perks at Work, cashback/discount shopping site
• Employee referral scheme
• Salary sacrifice program which includes cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme and season ticket loans
• Volunteering program
• Company events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee!)
• Team socials