The National College – Sheffield, City and Borough of Sheffield
Responsible for automating infrastructure, managing cloud environments, setting up continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, release management, monitoring system performance, ensuring security and compliance.
2. Key Responsibilities
1. Working as part of a scrum team, but collaborating with other development teams, product, design and test teams to ensure the best implementation and highest quality product
2. Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines. Automate provisioning and configuration of cloud resources
3. Deploy, manage, and optimise cloud-based infrastructure with a core focus on uptime and performance
4. Set up and maintain the necessary monitoring, alerting, and logging in our systems to ensure system reliability and performance
5. Work with product and development to plan, build, execute and manage releases
6. Implement security best practices in infrastructure, including vulnerability scanning, IAM, and firewall management
Requirements
3. Experience
1. 3+ years’ experience in DevOps roles
2. A track record of successfully managing and delivering the automation of infrastructure and deployment processes
4. Skills and Competencies
1. A strong ability to work with detail and accuracy
2. Strong technical skills and understanding of software development and delivery practices
3. Experience with video delivery platforms or learning management systems is a huge benefit
4. Practical experience working with automated unit and integration testing tools and frameworks such as PHPUnit, PHPStan, and Selenium
5. Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, and tools such as Jira and Git
6. Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
7. Flexible and able to work in a highly collaborative fast-paced culture
8. Strong technical capabilities, with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues across multiple systems
9. Structured and organised approach to ensure issues are managed to completion, prioritised effectively, and reported on to key stakeholders
10. Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL/Aurora)
11. Development and coding or database experience is a strong advantage
12. Experience with setting up and maintaining continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
13. Practical experience with AWS, including the management of live, business-critical software platforms
14. Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools, with a clear understanding of maintaining system reliability
15. Experience with Docker setup and configuration
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