DevOps Engineer

BrightTALK ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

About BrightTALK BrightTALK brings professionals and businesses together to learn and grow. Over 7 million professionals engage with 75,000 free talks and 1,000 online summits to discover new technologies, learn from trusted experts and grow their careers. Thousands of businesses acquire and inspire their ideal audience with BrightTALK's AI-powered content and demand marketing platform. We are looking for a talented and passionate DevOps Engineer to join BrightTALK's Operations team, working in London as part of our UK-wide DevOps team. The DevOps team is responsible for the ongoing monitoring, scaling, code deployment and health of our busy platform. We're a bright, friendly and hard-working team working on unique and interesting challenges that keep us continually learning and improving. Our DevOps team works closely with our software engineers and is part of the project from the initial business requirement to final production deployment - this provides plenty of scope for innovation. Responsibilities: The DevOps Engineer role integrates significant Linux experience, AWS knowledge, scripting abilities, information security and debugging skills to implement continuous integration, delivery and deployment to optimize the operational aspects of our platform. The DevOps Engineer background includes experience in large-scale system administration and familiarity with Open Source and cloud services technologies, such as Jenkins, Docker and MySQL. Key Responsibilities * Help to maintain the overall health and performance of our web applications and services * Build up and implement reliable infrastructure components to deliver highly scalable services on the AWS platform * Automate the deployment, administration and monitoring of our large-scale Linux environments * Work with development teams to enhance, document, establish a process and improve the operability and security of our systems Skills and Experience * Experience building and maintaining production systems on AWS using EC2, RDS, S3, etc. and familiarity interacting with the AWS CLI is essential * Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies, cloud services and automation tools e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Packer * Solid scripting skills in one or more of: Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby, PHP * Strong background in Linux/Unix administration * Familiarity with large-scale databases and proficiency in SQL, MySQL. * Familiarity with a broad range of open source technologies, build tools and continuous integration systems (e.g. Jenkins) * Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service * Experience working with containers such as Docker (deployment aspects) * Experience writing tools for automation, configuration and build * Experienced with source code control (GitHub or Bitbucket)