• Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer 
• Level & Responsibility: this role is a senior individual contributor. This role may be known as a Senior Platform Engineer in other businesses.  
• Salary: £75k+ per annum, depending on experience plus a 10% bonus scheme 
• Location & Hybrid Working: London, Leeds or Manchester with 1/2 days a week in the office 
  

The role

Part of SMG, Plan-Apps is a cutting-edge technology company specialising in B2B SaaS solutions tailored for the dynamic landscape of the retail media industry. Our innovative platform empowers retailers to optimise their media estates, streamlining the full marketing campaign cycle - connecting brands and retailers to use data to plan, manage and measure marketing campaigns effectively.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the practices and technologies that allow for the seamless development, deployments, and operation of our Plan-Apps SaaS platform. You will also be responsible for designing, managing, and the setup of our AWS cloud-based infrastructure, ensuring that we are operating in a secure, scalable, and robust environment. You will champion optimisation and automation and play a key role in our future technical architecture decisions that will allow us to continue to scale and grow to meet both the development team and wider organisation needs.

Why SMG?

We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years. 

We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

💰 Generous discretionary bonus scheme

🧘‍♂️ £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

🫶 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing

📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

🎧 Free headspace subscription

🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round

🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

Why you?

In line with our company values, within your role you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:

• Proven DevOps experience, SaaS/web platform administration preferred.
• Experienced in managing production AWS environments, ideally with AWS Certification.
• Demonstrable experience in designing and building new features within the infrastructure design. Key areas of focus in AWS; Docker, Kubernetes, API Gateways, Multi-region architecture, Nginx, Load balancers
• Working in agile product development environments with regular and multi-team releases to production.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, a bonus if you’ve done them with BitBucket.
• Comfortable scripting in a variety of languages, and in particular Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• You will have previous experience managing the majority of our web platform technology stack; Node.js, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, MongoDB, OpenSearch (ES, Kibana), CloudWatch/CloudTrail
• The ability to create documentation and guides that ensure other team members can manage the infrastructure.
• Comfortable with agile delivery tools such as Jira & Confluence.

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• Manage our AWS infrastructure, putting processes in place to ensure our environments are stable and secure.
  
• Work closely with the Technical Director and Leads to plan and deliver new site architecture as required
  
• Create automated scripts and IaC that optimise our DevOps and Infrastructure operations.
  
• Implement security best practices on the infrastructure and support the remediation of regular security/audit scans.
  
• Manage our releases, coordinating and managing product updates delivered by multiple teams.
  
• Actively enhance our monitoring & logging and use this data to continuously look for areas of performance optimisation.
  
• Work closely with the technical team to support new features and design new services as required.
  
• Recommend new tools and best practices within our SDLC - we are always looking to improve.
  
• When required, help advise on the feasibility of technical projects and features.
  
• Provide mentoring and guidance to more junior team members.
  

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