Lead Cloud Engineer

Salary Competitive

Have you helped to build and managed large infrastructure deployments on AWS, Azure, or Google for a global 24x7 SaaS platform? Are you interested in (maybe even an expert at) tools like Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Grafana, or Kubernetes? Do you understand how important having robust monitoring and logging are to uptime and availability? How about knowing how important infrastructure as code is and that repeatability is key?


SmashFly Technologies is searching for talented, driven, self-motivated DevOps engineer to join our team in Belfast. You’d be helping us as we build out the technology to help the world find work. Brands you interact with every day use SmashFly to hire with purpose. We’re looking for someone who can come in and work with engineering teams and operations as we move to Containerize/ “PaaS-ify” and properly architect our .NET/ SQL SaaS platform. Ideally, you’ll understand what it takes to build a failure resistant, repeatable, distributed architecture.

Things you’ll do:

  • Participate in an Agile Scrum team

  • Analyze and deliver cloud solutions

  • Create and maintain tools and interfaces to drive SmashFly’s reliability and quality

  • Identify and evangelize best practices for continuous delivery

  • Promote and demonstrate best practices for Engineering and Operations teams using public cloud providers

  • Help build and release SmashFly software

Essential Criteria:

- Minimum 4 Years experience with Azure, AWS, Google or other Cloud delivery platforms beyond just virtual machines.

- Experience with Microsoft Release Manager 2013 or 2017

- Significant experience operating and supporting .NET applications on Windows Server/ IIS

- Experience with Linux servers (we use CentOS/ Redhat 7) Especially around hosting Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, and nginx

- Understanding of configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, or ARM

- Experience working with at least 1 scripting language, PowerShell, Bash, Python or Rub

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Applicants must have the right to work within the united kingdom

Desired Criteria:

- Experience using Git

- Experience with Agile development methodologies

- Experience with email delivery systems

- Knowledge of SQL Server systems

- Experience with Atlassian collaboration tools

- Understanding of cloud networking and load balancing

- Deep experience in one or more Cloud Providers, We’re talking about platform and API services, not just VMs. Things like App Services, SQL PaaS, API Manager, AKS, Redis, Azure AD from Azure or GKE, Cloud Functions, App Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Apigee from Google Cloud.


Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

Equity package
Equity package

Want to be a partner? Look no further.

Healthcare insurance
Healthcare insurance

Break a leg! Seriously, we got you covered in our company healthcare plan.

Maternity / paternity leave
Maternity / paternity leave

Kids are the future, go spend time with them.

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

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Working at
Smashfly

We build marketing automation software for recruiting.  What that means is we design, create and market technology that will help organisations hire the best talent – and job seekers find their ideal career and culture.  And this matters, right? You’re a job seeker right now. You know how much this matters. Our platform is made to: - Deliver a personalised candidate experience - Build meaningful relationship with talent - Provide reliable data for actionable insight SmashFly was born out of a vision to do better when it comes to helping people find their fit and companies to find the best talent. That vision ran through home offices, on through to our amazing space in Concord. We’ve spent our 10 years creating a new category in the recruiting space, and we are looking for people to help us grow to continue to change the game. As a venture-backed startup, we’re looking to the next 10 years to build on our history of growth and challenging the status quo to create a new experience for candidates and for companies. One that is anchoring in building relationships and bring people and brands together around meaningful work.

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