DevOps Engineer

What you’ll be doing

You will help bring us closer to our DevOps nirvana and contribute to our Platform as a Service and DevOps culture (test driven infrastructure, automate everything, self-service tooling). 

We are product driven, not project driven. Our PaaS, built on cloud infrastructure, is our product and the rest of the business our customers.

We are mostly hosted at AWS (and annually attend re:Invent) and have built a PaaS on top to allow our product teams to deploy their applications using a Codebuild / GitHib Actions/Docker/Ansible/Terraform driven, region agnostic, blue-green automated deployment pipeline; this offers both AMIs and Docker images for deployment to our respective AWS EC2 and ECS production environment. We also use Azure and GCP with zero on-prem infrastructure.

• are security minded and endorse chaos engineering along with the approach of “you build it, you run it” and “you break it, you fix it”.
• understand the need to build scalable, secure, auditable, reproducible and usable infrastructure.
• be hands-on in creating solutions to build and automate environments for production use.
• create and manage our subdomains with regards to DNS, SSL certificates, traffic manager routing and monitoring
• work in a timely, prioritised and start small manner. We look at the highest pain points for both dev and ops and work backwards
• continuously re-evaluate using the right tool for the DevOps job and making abstraction easy. 
• will be required to be part of the on call rota, and believe that through well designed systems and automation you will never be called.

• Linux systems administration.
• experienced of cloud hosting such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• experienced with continuous delivery / provisioning / deployment.
• able to build and maintain production public-facing sites.
• familiar with the concept of ‘infrastructure as code’.
• experienced with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform and Cloudformation (but not limited to those mentioned) 
• strong in programming skills (in any language).

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

Ready to join us and help us elevate our DevOps practices? Apply today.

About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

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What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?

We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid. 

On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits. 

Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.

Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.

And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.

There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling. 

We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme

Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).

And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.