Senior DevOps Engineer

About Tangent

At Tangent, we partner with large enterprises from IWG plc to SAP & UK Power Networks, helping them to build future-ready digital experiences, products, and capabilities.

As a 100-strong agency, we excel across a wide range of disciplines including strategy, consultancy, design, engineering, and project management. Our global presence spans offices in London, Valencia, Cape Town, Lahore, Poznan, and Cairo.

What you’ll be doing

This role will be reporting into our Infrastructure and Operations Manager. You will support Technical Architects and Developers with one of our largest, globally distributed, enterprise clients.

Here at Tangent, we pride ourselves on being cloud-first, if not cloud native, hence you will get your hands on progressive technologies.

What we are looking for

We are looking for an experienced, hands on, DevOps engineer, who is passionate about delivering scalable, resilient, secure and available infrastructure.

Key responsibilities include:

• Cloud infrastructure; experience with AWS and Azure services
• Containerized applications and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Distributed systems & microservice architecture
• Application & infrastructure security, including access control, threat prevention and detection, auditing, and reporting
• CI/CD (Including Azure DevOps); usage & implementation of pipelines, version control and deployment
• Monitoring & Alerting, implementation, and on-going management
• IaC / Terraform
• Networking, including at applications, containerization and virtual networks level as well as potential peering to third party networks
• Working within an agile and waterfall development team
• Object-oriented design and design patterns

As successful individual should be:

• A proactive, self-starter; being able to come into an existing project and hit the ground running
• An excellent communicator - able to communicate technical information succinctly and meaningfully to non-technical colleagues and clients
• Partner for solutions architects, able to support, make and justify architectural decisions and the creation of operational processes
• Ability to create architectural diagrams, technical specifications and build infrastructure.
• Able to work as part of a team, working closely with Project Managers, Front End Developers and Architects
• Able to estimate technical effort, licensing and hosting costs and clearly communicate them to non-technical users
• Able to plan; spotting technical risks, issues and dependencies and communicating the impact of these to the project team (with enough lead time to do something about them)
• Used to working in an agency environment, familiar with working to budgets, schedules, completing timesheets, participating in stand ups and providing progress

Technical skills required:

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience with AWS & Azure
• Kubernetes/Containerization
• CI/CD
• Terraform
• Understanding of enterprise level, distributed systems and not only brochure ware sites
• Understanding of Cloud Architecture Patterns

Bonus points if you

Bonus points if you have experience in:

• Technical Degree
• Knowledge of scripting languages g. BASH or PowerShell
• Recognized certifications from cloud providers (nice to have, not essential)
• GCP
• Puppet
• Python, AI solutions
• GitOps
• Understanding of ISO27001
• Experience working within a digital agency environment would be beneficial

Life at Tangent

What we believe

At Tangent we understand people - designing user-centric products and creating high-performing teams.

We are truly committed to protecting our most important asset, the planet. Always seeking to improve out digital footprint and lower carbon emissions.

We make decisions with a purpose in mind. Producing work that is measurable, considered and will drive clients’ businesses forward.

Our strategy is underpinned by our 4 core values:

• Always ask questions
• Listen more than speak
• Own your area
• Strive for better

What we offer

We work hard to make sure Tangent is not only a fun place to work but also provides a platform for you to grow.

100% remote working

We understand life is about balance, that’s why we provide the flexibility you need to work in a way that suits you best. You are welcome to work 100% remotely or hybrid from our London, Newcastle. Lahore, Cape Town or Valencia office.

Global socials and parties

There’s always a social in the works at Tangent - all designed to help you form friendships with your colleagues. For our overseas employees, we will fly you over at least once a year to attend our London social events to get some IRL face time.

Enhanced holiday

After two years of service, earn an extra day off each subsequent year, accumulating up to a maximum of 3 additional days. Embrace a well-deserved moment of rest or check something off your life bucket list- it’s totally up to you!

Growth and training

We provide continuous opportunities for improvement and career development. From specific training or qualifications to event attendance, we encourage our teams to stay curious, nurture their skills and reach their ambitions.

At Tangent our aim is to create a working environment where every single member of the team has the opportunity to be themselves. We are an equal opportunities employer and will welcome and consider all applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex and sexual orientation.