Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow. Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them. What does Access offer you? We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career. You will start with 25 days annual leave that increases with your seniority in the company, a private healthcare and life insurance. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you. There are plenty of other perks. Apply to find out more. About you: You are a dynamic, skilled Linux based sys-admin / DevOps enginner with a passion for technology and a keen sense of pride in the work you do. You are a strong team player who thrives on close collaboration with your colleagues and takes shared ownership of the operations and infrastructure supporting our software solutions. You are focused on delivering high-quality, high-availability infrastructure to given timelines and are comfortable in an agile scrum environment. You are constantly seeking to improve both your own skills and the skills of others and enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic company. You will be expected to contribute to planning sessions as well as help with the technical evolution of our products. Day-to-day, you will: •Develop and enhance the infrastructure and architectural framework that supports our systems, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. •Be the go-to person, and take ownership of operational support of our mission critical, high-availability systems. •Champion the best documentation and practices to make sure our systems are stable, resilient, scalable and secure. •Address critical issues by teaming up with Engineers and Support staff to troubleshoot high-impact issues (including providing necessary out of hours on-call support) Your skills and experiences might also include: •Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian) and Windows and server administration. Experience with containerisation and orchestration tooling (Docker & Kubernetes). •Building and Developing in a Cloud environment (Azure, AWS) using both PaaS and IaaS solutions. Good understanding of computer networks: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, IPv6, firewall, BGP and network virtualization. Experience in using and maintaining Industry standard observability tooling (ELK, Nagios) •BigData administration using Apache Hadoop stack (Spark/Storm, HBase, HDFS). Knowledge of event-driven solutions and message queuing services (RabbitMQ or similar) •Desirable- Experience in system programming and scripting: Javascript (NodeJS), Python, Bash, Go, etc. Desirable). Some experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous deployment (Ansible, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops). What are we all about? The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace. At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. Love Work. Love Life. Be You.