DevOps & Software Automation Engineer (central Bristol) TL70

Your challenge:

Searching for that rare combination - like-minded software engineering colleagues, who are solving complex container and data management problems, where your work will form a key part of the engineering process?

Your role:

This is an opportunity to bring your DevOps experience to an open source provider with big aspirations. Your challenge is to build and run a continuous integration pipeline that achieves efficient, automated test and deployment, and facilitates the highest software quality.

Embedded in our software engineering team, we will look to you for the processes, systems and tools that allow us to release consistently high quality software.
Appealing nationwide, we are offering relocation to Bristol, fast becoming the cloud computing hub of Europe and renowned for its high quality of life.

We need you to take a holistic view across the engineering operation – design, implementation and administration – delivering a solution that meets exacting standards, evolves and scales.

Backed by the Director of engineering, you can strongly influence this important function, with the tools, resources and budget to achieve excellence. You can anticipate a strong ongoing technical challenge as the operation continues to expand.

Example initiatives:
  • Using the best and latest open source technology to deliver simple, effective and reusable processes, tools and utilities for continuous integration and automated test and deployment
  • Designing and building environments across all major Linux distributions and cloud platforms for use as build infrastructure, benchmarking platforms, and ad hoc resources for our development team
  • Delivering reliable upgrade paths for mission critical components
About you:
  • You specialise in automation by choice, with solid experience of TDD and automated deployment
  • You bring extensive experience with modern CI tools e.g. Jenkins, Hudson, Maven or Buildbot, and configuration management packages, such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
  • You have strong experience with Linux, virtualisation, networking and cloud platforms
  • You may bring some skills in Python or similar dynamic languages
  • You may bring some knowledge of ZFS or copy-on-write filesystems
  • You may be considering jobs such as: Software Automation Engineer | Build Engineer | Release Engineer | DevOps Engineer | Tools Engineer | Software Packaging Engineer
Salary and benefits:

  • Competitive joining salary + equity
  • Discretionary relocation assistance
  • 25 days + bank holidays | flexible hours | remote working | pension | Cyclescheme | good coffee | on site restaurant

About us:

Open source provider of storage and cluster management tools whose product solves complex data and container problems for engineers worldwide. Newly funded, we need your help as we take our first products to market and scale to deliver. Our global team has the engineering capability, leadership and market opportunity to make significant impact. Effective software design is at the heart of our organisation and fundamental to our future.

Locations:

Central Bristol; near Temple Meads station and commutable from Bath, Chippenham, Reading, Swindon etc.

Please talk with techfolk, our recruitment partner, to find out more:

0117 318 2447 | [email protected] | http://twitter.com/we_are_techfolk

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