Join Nordcloud, an IBM Company and be part of the European cloud revolution. We supercharge our customers to innovate in hyperscaler cloud, enabling seamless migration, advanced security, and data-driven success.
Currently, we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in the UK.
What you'll do;
- Understanding Application Architectures and Systems Design, pro-actively making recommendations on simplifying and improving clients products.
- Finding opportunities to exploit cloud native technologies with clients' products.
- Being part of designing and delivering cloud-native applications that deliver on key architectural requirements (scalability, reliability, observability, secure etc.) and DevOps best practices.
- Providing technical guidance, mentoring, and support to the development teams and other architects.
- Designing applications that can be supported and maintained.
What you'll bring:
- Strong background in AWS, understanding a breadth of key technologies. Some key technology areas for us are Serverless, Private Networking, NoSQL and Kubernetes.
- Experience building and orchestrating containers.
- Experience hosting and deployment of applications (CI Pipelines, Web Servers, DNS Configuration, Certificates etc).
- Experience in software development in a major language and API framework.
- Experienced in developing automations in at least one scripting language (Bash, Powershell etc). Scripting in a Linux environment is preferred.
- Hands-on ability with Terraform.
- Experience designing, implementing and regularly testing disaster recovery strategies (RPO/RTO definition, failover/failback, DR runbooks).
- Collaborating with security teams on penetration testing, remediation of findings and hardening of infrastructure and pipelines.
- Setting up, monitoring and routinely validating backup and restore processes for applications, infrastructure and data, including periodic recovery drills.
- Taking an active operational role in major incidents, leading or driving incident calls, coordinating technical teams, and following through on resolution and post-incident actions.
- Working primarily in DevOps while also handling data-related activities such as data refreshes and anonymization/masking for non-production environments.
- Experience managing and automating data operations on cloud-native data services (for example DynamoDB, Athena or similar services), including performance optimization, capacity management and housekeeping.
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for both application and data platforms (e.g. schema migrations, data jobs, analytics workloads).
- Applying security, compliance and governance best practices across DevOps processes and data platforms (access control, secrets management, auditability).
- Great communicator and responsible team player, this role is client facing.
Nice‑to‑haves:
- Hands-on experience with major Test Automation frameworks is a big plus.
What we offer:
- Individual training budget and exam fees for certifications
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working model
- Company laptop and needed equipment
- Local package such as up to 7% matched pension contributions, extensive private health care, Bupa dental plan, and a seasonal ticket loan, enhanced maternity and parental leave, gym expense or well-being monthly and mobile phone allowance
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About Nordcloud
Nordcloud is a European leader in cloud implementation, application development, managed services and training. It’s a recognised cloud-native pioneer with a proven track record helping organisations leverage public cloud in a way that balances quick wins, immediate savings and sustainable value.
Nordcloud is triple-certified across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform – with 10 European hubs, over 1,300 employees and has delivered over 1,000 successful cloud projects for companies ranging from midsize to large corporates.
Our clients benefit from multi-cloud expertise that guides best practices, preempts pitfalls, provides essential technical support and steers teams through cultural change. From strategy planning to application management, we take our customers through the whole cloud journey to drive real business outcomes from cloud technology.
Learn more at www.nordcloud.com
Nordcloud values diversity and is dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and employees.
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Nordcloud is a European leader in cloud implementation, application development, managed services and training. It’s a recognised cloud-native pioneer with a proven track record helping organisations leverage public cloud in a way that balances quick wins, immediate savings and sustainable value. As well as partnering with VMware, Nordcloud is triple-certified across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services – and is featured in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.
Nordcloud has 10 European hubs, over 1700 employees and has delivered over 1,000 successful cloud projects for companies ranging from mid-size to large corporates. IBM announced its acquisition of Nordcloud on December 21, 2020
