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Sr. DevOps Engineer

Planet Pharma
Liverpool
2 months ago
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Planet Pharma are paired with a global pharmaceutical provider who we’ve built our business around complex cancer insights, uniquely positioned to help our partners break new ground as they navigate the increasingly complex disease landscape. They are currently seeking an Sr. DevOps Engineer .


As a Sr DevOps Engineer you will develop and maintain all cloud infrastructure, automation and integration across systems. It manages code workflows and takes active part in software release activities.

Core Responsibilities:Responsible for maintaining and improving cloud-based infrastructure, as well as working closely with our developers on the code changes required for our releases.

  • Will act as a point of escalation for the UK and a mentor for more junior team members.
  • Includes greenfield work, although there is a large amount of brownfield and user support.
  • Take an active part in, carry out, and lead releases. Will attend release planning meetings, communicating appropriately with team members, other developers, Product Management and Product Development.
  • Produce clear documentation for work as needed.

Requirements:Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience required

  • Minimum 5 years’ experience as DevOps Engineer working with AWS, infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, configuration-as-code tools such as Ansible, Linux systems and bash scripting, Version control such as git, CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub, bitbucket pipelines, CircleCI, Jenkins or equivalent, TACO such as digger, Atlantis or equivalent (a plus) and Containerization with Docker and ECS (Kubernetes and EKS nice to have)
  • Experience working in an Agile environment



About Planet Pharma:


We are an equal opportunities Recruitment Business and Agency. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

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