Senior DevOps Engineer in Greater Manchester

A bit about us

Gamma is a leading supplier of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS): we provide voice, data and mobile products and services to the UK, German, Spanish and Benelux business markets.

Gamma is expanding its UCaaS presence in Europe with a family of businesses focusing on digital automation, delivering Gamma-powered services to SME customers via a network of channel partners in Germany, Spain, and the Benelux region.

Our team work fast, with a start-up type of mindset but working within a leading European business.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Senior Devops engineer who is outgoing amd more than willing to get their hands dirty when it comes to problem solving.

You will also have to be able to be an outgoing and confident individual who can build relationships and maintain them with your peers across the business.

What will you be doing day-to-day?

The DevOps team is tasked with overall management of the Cloud infrastructure on which our applications are deployed and hosted and ensuring this is done so in accordance with latest best practises and industry standards.

The senior DevOps engineer should be an expert in their field and be able to cover all the skills and responsibilities detailed below to a high level.

• Design, implementation and management of Kubernetes based infrastructure, deployment pipelines and automation. With a specific focus to hosting within the AWS cloud.
• Collaboration with other engineering teams to understand requirements and build efficient, available, scalable and secure platforms and solutions.
• Use of infrastructure as code and supporting tooling (Terraform, Argo etc)
• Implement effective monitoring, logging and alerting to work with tooling from other areas of the business – pushing for uptime, reliability and SRE practises.
• Highly security focussed, ensuring that all deployments and infrastructure are secure and adhere to best practises.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployments and applications.
• Keep up with emerging technology and understanding of industry best practice.
• Be a mentor to junior members of the team

What you’ll need

• Prior experience at a high level in a DevOps engineering role with exposure to the following:
• AWS/Cloud technologies
• Kubernetes and associated tooling
• Terraform IaC
• Pipelining and CI/CD tools.
• Security practises and tooling – Trivy, Sonarcloud, Security Hub
• Excellent understanding of software development lifecycles and agile methodologies
• Good scripting skills
• Experience of logging and monitoring tooling – Cloudwatch, Opensearch/Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus
• AWS and or Kubernetes focussed Certification –professional or specialist level
• Experience with other cloud platforms would be beneficial also but not a requirement.

What do we offer?

• 25 days PTO + bank holidays
• Your birthday off
• Private Medical Insurance
• Electric Vehicle (EV) scheme
• Pension plan
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Share-save scheme

A few things to note

This role will require travel to our Manchester office on a hybrid basis.

We do not need agency support; we do all our recruitment in house.

Unfortunately, we can't offer visa sponsorship or relocation support for this role.