Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Bournemouth BUT we are happy to support remote work if Bournemouth is unsuitable. Some overseas travel may be required.
Salary: £45,000-£60,000 (experience dependent)
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
The Role:
At MIS, customer experience is at the forefront of everything we do. To help us build functional systems that improve customer experience we are now looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer. They will be responsible for database management, deploying & updating products, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet our customers’ needs. If you have a solid background in software engineering or are familiar with Python and Azure, we’d love to speak with you.
We are currently migrating our services from DigitalOcean to Azure in addition to some on-premises servers; which are mainly used for big data processing. The DevOps Engineer will need to create, maintain, upgrade, and keep services/servers secure inline with our development schedule. Additionally, the role will manage and improve our GeoServer solution, providing web mapping data to all of our products.
Job Duties:
- Create, maintain & upgrade servers/services
- Database administration for SQL Server, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and MongoDB
- Migrate services from DigitalOcean to Azure
- Manage cloud environment (Azure)
- Manage and improve GeoServer offering
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
- Work closely with other team members to ensure services are containerised (Docker) and orchestrated (Kubernetes) appropriately
Present ideas for system improvements
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Must have:
- Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
- Experience with Cloud computing
- Familiarity with container orchestration services (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with MicroServices
- Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git & GitLab
- Significant experience Linux operating system environments
- Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python & Bash
- Working knowledge of SQL/noSQL database administration
Highly desirable:
- Experience with Azure
- Experience with Nginx, Gunicorn/Uvicorn
- Understanding of ETL architecture or prior experience with ETL
Desirable:
- Knowledge/Experience developing RESTful Web Services
GIS (Web, QGIS, or ArcGIS)
Qualities and character traits:
Character Traits:
- Curious/inquisitive
- Initiative (self starter)
- Happy to work on big projects
Qualities:
- Articulate – clear, concise and logical in both writing and speech
- Creative and intelligent
- Accurate and precise
The Company:
MIS aggregate and analyze space, air and ground based sensors to provide a timely, robust and holistic view of global events. As the winner of the 2018 British Claims Award for Outstanding Achievement of the Year, we combine machine learning algorithms with over 100 years of military-trained damage assessment expertise to deliver timely and actionable intelligence to global insurance markets. Our military heritage drives our sense of urgency and means we understand what has to be done during major catastrophes, ensuring customers get what they need – on time, every time. We are proudly the owner of a cross market SaaS solution, adopted by key players in the (Re)insurance industry. We have been serving the insurance market since 2016; recent technological advances means our product is on the desktops of many claims and underwriting staff across the industry and we are looking for new talent to augment the teams delivering this high quality analysis.
MIS is a proudly and defiantly diverse employer. We only care that you are a good human, who is amazing at your job, who is interested and interesting, who wants to do truly transformational work. We don’t care about gender identity, sexual preference, skin colour, able-bodied-ness, marital status or otherwise of our team members. We just want to work with the best.
Benefits:
- 20 days annual leave PLUS 8 UK bank holidays PLUS 3 days Christmas stand down
- Company pension scheme
- Employee share scheme (subject to approval and qualifying period)
- £10 Wednesday Lunch Club allowance
- Competitive Maternity/Paternity Policy
- Training budget each year for formal courses or any learning (training courses, talks, books, etc.)
- Regular team socials
Flexible hybrid working: some days in the office, some from home
Please click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Devops Administrator, Systems Developer, Systems Support, Systems Architect, Software Support, Lead Systems Support, Project Management, Web Developer may also be considered for this role
