DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer at Sophos, you will be instrumental in evolving our development lifecycle. You will facilitate, automate, and scale the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of our large-scale cloud-native SaaS and on-premises applications. 

By leveraging your expertise in AWS and Kubernetes, you will streamline our CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, frequent, and reliable automated builds. Beyond technical implementation, you will act as a mentor—teaching and assisting engineering teams to build, manage, and monitor high-performance cloud applications with increased agility. 

• Platform Management: Take ownership of the management and ongoing maintenance of our Kubernetes platforms. 

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with multiple development squads to identify requirements for building and deploying complex applications. 

• AWS Automation: Design and implement the automated deployment and configuration of cloud-application workloads within AWS. 

• Observability: Develop, advise on, and troubleshoot monitoring and management frameworks for cloud-resident workloads. 

• Consultancy: Assist engineering teams in architecting manageable, scalable, and highly observable cloud-native applications. 

• Incident Resolution: Troubleshoot and resolve environment and configuration issues. Analyse logs and monitoring data to proactively communicate potential risks to stakeholders. 

• Environment Orchestration: Manage and communicate the state, versioning, and availability of various environments to Developers, QA, and wider team members. 

• Tooling Excellence: Maintain and optimise shared development tools for branching, tagging, building, releasing, and reporting. 

• Willingness to provide on-call support on weekend (once in a month)