Senior DevOps Engineer

Who are we?

Friend MTS are content protection pioneers. Launched in 2006, we have engineered our way to provide industry leading, award winning content protection solutions. We proudly partner with some of the world's most notable broadcasters, providing security against piracy.

Whilst our people continue to drive us innovatively into expanding territories, we are reflecting this growth within the company. We lead with curiosity, collaboration and passion and we hope you will too.

 

What will your job look like?

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team offering the opportunity to work on a large-scale cloud-hosted application in use by many major global media companies from satellite / cable broadcasters to sports rights owners and movie studios. The role will involve maintaining and developing cloud-based infrastructure services while making continued service improvements.

 

As our Senior DevOps Engineer you will be:

• Working as part of a team on a large-scale application in use daily by major global media companies
• Planning deployment of new / updated infrastructure components
• Monitoring and maintaining the day to day of the system
• Working closely with technology and infrastructure vendors
• Managing data synchronisation and backup processes

Requirements

You will be set up for success in this role if you have:

• BEng / MEng / BSc / MSc in relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Proven commercial DevOps experience
• Strong Linux experience, ideally with Ubuntu, with shell scripting skills
• In depth knowledge of cloud service management systems and APIs
• In depth experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, S3, RDS / Aurora, Route 53 etc
• Infrastructure automation experience, ideally using Terraform
• Experience of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, ideally with GitLab
• Experience with containerisation, ideally using Docker and ECS or Kubernetes
• Experience with web / API server, such as Apache or NGINX
• Infrastructure monitoring experience, ideally using Prometheus

Nice to have's:

Experience in -

• Memcache / Redis
• PHP
• DNS
• OpenVPN
• Puppet
• Beanstalk

Benefits

• 25 days, plus bank holidays and a day off for your birthday
• After 6-month’s employment, life assurance at four times salary
• Supported Pension Scheme
• Remote working with the option to frequent the office as you desire aswell as flexible working to support work/life balance
• Tech set-up to ensure you are fully equipped to be successful