[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Distributed

Senior DevOps Engineer

UK/EU - Fully Remote

9 month initial contract

Who are we?

We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team.

We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™. 

What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.

Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about

About this role 

As Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll be instrumental in designing and implementing our cloud infrastructure strategy, optimising costs, and developing automation frameworks. You'll work closely with the team to ensure robust, scalable, and secure deployment pipelines within our GCP environment.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure planning strategies across GCP services
• Manage cloud cost optimisation and resource utilisation
• Develop and maintain automation strategies for deployment and operations
• Create and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions
• Design and manage disaster recovery procedures

About You

We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.

• Proven experience with GKE administration and Kubernetes operations
• Strong expertise in infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
• Proficiency in Python/TypeScript and container technologies
• Experience with cloud monitoring, logging, and observability tools
• Track record of implementing cost-effective cloud solutions
• Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design and automation

About us

Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.

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