Staff Engineer - Devops

About the Position

Staff Engineer - DevOps

Join our DevOps team at DDN in Bristol, UK, and be at the forefront of innovation with Infinia Software Defined Storage (SDS). Our team is dedicated to driving high-performance and scalable emerging technologies, supporting multiple client protocols and delivering robust, enterprise-grade storage solutions.

Location

Bristol Office

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering - Infinia Engineering

Why Join Us?

Our DevOps team is transforming the way software-defined storage operates in both on-premises and cloud environments. Here’s a glimpse of the exciting work we do:

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Constantly evolving our infrastructure with Terraform, Python, and Bash, building cloud infrastructure on GCP with future plans to expand into other cloud providers.
• On-Premises Excellence: Develop and deploy self-sustaining infrastructure that delivers mission-critical applications faster, while enhancing flexibility and performance.
• Build and Release Acceleration: Engineer build acceleration solutions by integrating with Nexus/JFrog Artifactory, streamlining build workflows, and connecting tools to self-managed artifact repositories.

Cutting-Edge Tools We Use

Our infrastructure and tooling reflect our commitment to modern DevOps practices. Here’s how we empower engineers to stay at the top of their game:

• Kubernetes and ArgoCD: Orchestrate scalable deployments with Kubernetes and leverage ArgoCD for automated and declarative application management.
• Packer + MaaS: Create custom bare-metal images with Packer and deploy them seamlessly using MaaS (Metal as a Service) for Ubuntu.
• K3s + KubeVirt: Build a self-provisioning VM environment to empower developers and QA engineers.
• Infinia & Harbor: Utilize Infinia for S3 storage services, and Harbor for container image management.
• GitHub Enterprise (GHE) + Actions: Collaborate using GHE, with DevOps leading the development and maintenance of workflow actions for CI/CD pipelines.
• Docker: Build containerized environments for both cloud and on-prem applications.
• Quay & GCS Buckets: Manage external artifacts with Quay and Google Cloud Storage (GCS).

What You’ll Work On

• Self-Deployable Environments: Our DevOps engineers are building a seamless, self-service environment to empower developers and QA teams.
• Bare-Metal & Cloud Integration: Get hands-on experience with bare-metal provisioning using MaaS, while deploying infrastructure in hybrid models with GCP and expanding to other cloud providers.
• Streamlining Build Systems: We integrate tools like Nexus/JFrog Artifactory to accelerate builds and optimize workflows, ensuring smoother development and faster delivery.
• Constant Innovation: We believe in continuous improvement, constantly enhancing infrastructure-as-code to make deployments faster, more reliable, and easily replicable.

Required Skills

All of the following skills are mandatory:

• Application Deployments within Kubernetes using tools like Helm or ArgoCD.
• Cloud experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a plus; experience with other cloud providers is good to have.
• Docker experience.
• Configuration Management with Ansible or similar tools.
• Monitoring and Metrics using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
• Bash Scripting expertise.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development using GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, and related tools (e.g., YAML, Groovy).
• Basic Linux Proficiency for underlying infrastructure management.

Preferred Skills

The following skills are desirable but not mandatory:

• Linux Administration, Networking, and Troubleshooting.
• On-prem Kubernetes Deployment and Administration.
• Virtualization experience.
• Python or Golang programming knowledge.
• CI/CD pipeline automation and scripting using languages like Python or Groovy.
• CI system integration and optimization experience.