DevOps Engineer

About this role

About Us In 2019, the founders were working as engineers solving complex cross-domain problems within government organisations. TwinStream was formed to bring together their collective expertise and experience into a single business, focused on delivering technical excellence and high-quality service to clients. Since then, the company has grown to over 100 team members across the UK, with colleagues working both on-site with clients, hybrid and remotely from home.

Details: £70,000 - £85,000 The role is fully remote initially, but we may put you through DV clearance and, once cleared, ask you to work onsite in Bristol 2–3 days a week at some point in the future. About the role : We are looking for skilled engineers to join a new team that will deploy and maintain our established cross-domain system for a customer. The system uses an AMQP event-driven microservices architecture and extensively utilises Docker container services.

As a team member, you will maintain a continuous deployment pipeline, work with feature delivery teams to promote component releases into production, and apply configuration management tools to ensure all deployments are consistent and correctly configured. The system is designed to be highly observable and available. The team will use monitoring tools to verify that all components are meeting SLA/SLO requirements. If any problems are identified, the team will take preventive actions to minimise customer impact and restore service as quickly as possible.

This role is perfect for an experienced engineer who is comfortable working in a managed service environment and wants to gain more experience with best-of-breed DevOps tools and techniques. Key R esponsibilities of the DevOps Engineer: Collaborate with Feature Development teams to promote new component versions into production as efficiently as possible. Maintain the system to agreed service level and availability objectives using real-time monitoring tools and system-generated metrics.

Instrumentation of new system metrics and alerts to pre-empt issues and improve performance. Respond to monitoring alerts and customer incidents, taking preventative/remedial action to minimise customer impact. Liaising with key customer stakeholders to schedule capability changes and capture new service requirements as they arise. Apply automation techniques to reduce the burden of manual operations. Skills & Experience Required: Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible) Experience working with Docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or Docker Swarm) Experience using and maintaining CI / CD tools (such as Jenkins or GitHub actions) Good understanding of relational databases and SQL Linux command line, administration and shell scripting <span data-