Senior DevOps Engineer
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Senior DevOps Engineer
UK/EU - Fully Remote
9 month initial contract
Who are we?
We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team.
We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™.
What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.
Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about
About this role
As Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll be instrumental in designing and implementing our cloud infrastructure strategy, optimising costs, and developing automation frameworks. You'll work closely with the team to ensure robust, scalable, and secure deployment pipelines within our GCP environment.
Your Responsibilities
• Design and implement infrastructure planning strategies across GCP services
• Manage cloud cost optimisation and resource utilisation
• Develop and maintain automation strategies for deployment and operations
• Create and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions
• Design and manage disaster recovery procedures
About You
We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.
• Proven experience with GKE administration and Kubernetes operations
• Strong expertise in infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
• Proficiency in Python/TypeScript and container technologies
• Experience with cloud monitoring, logging, and observability tools
• Track record of implementing cost-effective cloud solutions
• Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design and automation
About us
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
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- Department
- Elastic Team
- Locations
- Fully Remote
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Contract
Workplace & culture
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly.
The Company is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
About Distributed
We are Distributed: we help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our on-demand Elastic Teams.
Last year alone Distributed won 5 awards including 2 awards for growth, most disruptive startup in Startups 100, Winner in the Deloitte Fast 50 UK, a winner in the Red Herring Europe Top 100, and winner of a global award for Outstanding Reward & Recognition for remote working from The Omnis.
This year BT Digital signed a £30m deal with Distributed to accelerate its digital transformation and innovation agenda by rapidly bringing together multi-skilled digital teams.
We do things differently, we move fast, we are recognised as leaders in our sector, and we look after our people. We are a people company that uses technology to deliver beyond client expectations.
Join us if you want to be part of our Elastic Team community that’s shaping the future of freelance working..
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