Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Ardas
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work with our key client from the UK.

**About project:**
Established in 2000, Transport Exchange Group operates two of the UK’s largest and fastest-growing independent freight exchanges: Haulage Exchange and Courier Exchange. It is now, by some distance, the leading provider of managed freight exchange services for the road transport industry.
Every day over 8,000 businesses use the Exchange platform, powered by our unique SCALE technology (Smart Content and Location Engine), to find or fill available capacity and improve efficiency.
Across the UK and into Europe, our platform helps members eliminate empty journeys, driver shortages, demand fluctuations, and poor asset and load visibility.
The Exchange uses advanced telematics integration to help logistics businesses dramatically reduce empty running, thus cutting costs, reducing emissions, and improving profitability.


**Must have:**
- 5+ years in a DevOps role
- Superior knowledge of working in cloud based infrastructure, in particular AWS
- Outstanding experience deploying and managing Kubernetes/ECS clusters
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform and Terraform Cloud
- Good understanding of New Relic One, the entire platform, not only the APM
- Demonstrable knowledge of microservices and event-based oriented architectures
- Familiarity with Multi Region Topologies, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Proxy Servers, SNS, SQS, DNS, CDNs, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager and WAFs
- Capable of architecting frictionless security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
- Ability to document working process and write lots of the Documentation
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management
- Good knowledge of configuration management tools, preferably Ansible
- Vast experience with build tools, especially with Jenkins
- Custodian of artifacts, experience with Amazon ECR and AWS Code Artifact
- Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores
- Experience working with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Experienced working in/with Lean, DevOps culture and good understanding of Kanban
- Level of English Upper-Intermediate 

**Nice to have:**
- Experience with proxies like Envoy, Istio
- Experience with Tekton and Argo CD
- Basic familiarity with Azure
- MLOPS experience
- Knowledge of Dala Lake or ML Ops
- Experience with Kafka, Pulsar

**Responsibilities:**
- You will join our growing DevOps team (currently 6 people)
- You will help us to migrate from Amazon ECS to Kubernetes
- You will support us in the transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices
- You will support the business by actioning tickets and issues created in Jira
- Create and maintain our pipelines
- Continuously improve DevOps engineering practices
- Provide constructive feedback as part of peer/code reviews
- Get rid of day-to-day activities related to maintaining and tuning, focus on new features
- Analysis of the existing framework, identification of areas for improvements, implementation of the agreed solution
- New features development, PoC, architectural meetings

**We offer:**
- Continuous professional competencies development and professional growth opportunities
- Realization of your innovative ideas in building new solutions and services
- Possibility to propose solutions to a project
- You will be able to test and experiment with a lot of new stuff
- A unique chance to gain a ton of experience in a real environment, working with a leading British company
- A decent level of salary
- Possibility to work remotely
- Flexible schedule (40h per week)
- Compensation of 50% of the cost of English lessons
- Paid training
- Paid leave 18 days / Paid sick leave
- Very warm and friendly working environment