Senior Cloud Operations Engineer - Remote (UK Based)

Collaborative people that create ingenious solutions

Get on board with the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in the UK

We love a challenge and are quick to adapt

Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats. 

https://www.immersivelabs.com/why-immersive-labs

Where we are now

Immersive Labs was founded in 2017, from a cargo container in Bristol, UK we’ve grown to over 300 employees globally, announced funding of more than £150 million and been voted a Best place to work for the last 3 years running! We are trusted by the world’s largest organizations including KPMG, Sophos and the NHS to measure, map to risk, and optimize the human cyber abilities of their entire workforce.

https://careers.immersivelabs.com/our-story/

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Senior Cloud Ops Engineer

Due to our platform's exceptional growth, we are seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps engineer with extensive experience within AWS/Azure, working with Kubernetes and Terraform and with Datadog to join our engineering team.

This Senior role works closely with the Platform delivery and Content teams to deliver cutting edge labs. You will play an important part in giving certainty to the platform security, stability and availability. It's an amazing opportunity to shape and feed into our technology roadmap, and help steer our platform for a new future.

Most importantly, for you, it is a fantastic career opportunity to apply the knowledge and understanding you have of cloud frameworks, and grow with us.

You'll get to work in a friendly multi-disciplinary agile team and also work on innovative ideas during our OneTeam Day - a whole day once every 2 weeks to innovate and explore new tools and technologies alongside colleagues from the larger engineering function

This is an exciting time to be part of the Immersive Labs journey, and below you can read more about the key responsibilities of the role and the skills you will need to set you up for success. If you're passionate about eliminating repetitive work, and love a bit of automation and self service then read on... 

Your main responsibilities (we're scaling fast, so these may change as we grow):

You'll get to immerse yourself in Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog and AWS. We want to give you a place where you'll learn from us and we'll learn from you through getting involved in the following:

• Participate in architecting and building systems for maximum performance, reliability and scalability

• Work with the Engineering and Content teams on new projects/products

• Maintain and improve the DevOps teams ability to rapidly and safely deploy code and configuration

• Support the development teams ability to rapidly and safely deploy code and configuration

• Participate in on-call rotation, as an escalation path in the case of high priority incidents

• Ensure that our services are robust, resilient, secure, and compliant

You should apply if you have ​​(we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role):

• A number of years of exposure to working in production-critical infrastructures and Cloud environments

• Knowledge of the Amazon Web Services ecosystem

• In depth knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes

• Familiar with Serverless technologies

• Knowledge of network, firewall and security best practices

• Exposure to and understanding of infrastructure automation and deployment, specifically Terraform and Cloudformation

• Understanding of cloud monitoring tools

• A commitment to scripting, particularly Python

Immersive Labs’ growth has been fuelled by our values that underpin everything we do, here's how they relate to this role:

• Driven - We are innovators and market-creators, constantly moving forward to achieve results in support of our mission.

• Inclusive - We are passionate about creating an environment of inclusion and respect for our employees, customers and partners, everyone has opportunities to thrive.

• Customer Obsessed - We seek to develop deep relationships with our customers to help them achieve their business outcomes.

• One Team - We are a talented global team working together to achieve our vision.

If you would like to read more about what you can expect from our recruitment process, you can visit our dedicated interview process page.

As well as an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you. We offer an extensive range of benefits so you can do your very best work:

• Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave +  2 volunteering days and birthday half day

• Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, 7% matched pension, health plan and more

• Career and learning development through the platform and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund

• Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours

• Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours, job share, remote working

• We’re a sociable, tight-knit team with monthly socials, and sports clubs. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to movie nights and escape rooms

• When you do visit the UK hub getting there is easy: we’re based in the centre of Bristol, just a 10 minute walk from the train station. We also offer railcard loan and cycle scheme to buy a new bike

Find out more at https://careers.immersivelabs.com

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