Senior SysOps Engineer

Employment type: Full time

Remote-first

A little flex time

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Job Description

SysOps is an important part of delivering consistency and reliability at this scale. You will also be expected to help administer the systems day to day, working on maintenance tasks and dealing with problems and be experienced in deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.

SysOps work in conjunction and as part of the DevOps teams to contribute in the solution implementation, delivery and troubleshooting of the AWS infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced engineer who can manage servers or a system admin who loves to write code. You'll be working with a team of smart, passionate people helping to design, deploy, optimize and administer the Amplience platform.

You'll be expected to practice infrastructure as code. The Amplience platform is used by many big online retailers resulting in billions of requests every month.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Linux system administration (primarily Centos distros)

• Configuration management (Puppet /

Chef or similar)

• Jenkins (and pipelines) and Git

• Scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, Bash)

• Solid understanding of DNS and multi-tier Internet architecture

• Understanding of SSL

• Systems at scale (‘00’s of instances, automated failover and redundancy)

• Experience in designing an AWS cloud architecture and mapping business requirements into system / technical requirements

• Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, ELB, ASG, SQS, SNS, SWF, R53, EMR, CloudFormation, Dynamo and RDS – and others)

• CloudFormation/ Terraform

• NoSQL Databases, (Cassandra, MongoDB)

• Solr Cloud / Zookeeper / Elastic Search

Benefits

Competitive salary
Flexible working arrangements
Discretionary bonus scheme
Company pension scheme
Employee share options so that everyone can benefit from our success
Enhanced maternity & paternity policies
Extra holidays once you've been with us for a while
The option to purchase additional holidays
Charity / volunteer days
Life assurance policy
Ride to work scheme
Season ticket advance loans
Study leave

Company benefits

Accrued annual leave

Birthday off

Charity donation scheme

Cinema discounts

Company wide holidays/offsites

Compassionate leave

Cycle to work scheme

Early finish Fridays

Employee assistance programme

Employee discounts

Enhanced maternity leave

Enhanced paternity leave

Flexible working week

Hackathons

Life assurance

Life insurance

Matched pension contribution

Open to part-time employees

Season ticket loan

Theme park discounts

Travel insurance

Unplugged stays

Volunteer days

Charity/Volunteer Days

Semi Flexible working hours

FlexScore®

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Amplience provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Amplience is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.