Job Description
DevOps and Release Engineer
Permanent, Full Time
(Hybrid working role - minimum three office-based days a week in London)
About the Team
PPL’s IT team is constantly evolving and challenging what they do so we can remain the best at what we do. They aim to find new ways of working and stretch their capabilities to do great things. Being a part of IT at PPL requires a passion for technology and developing new skills. The team has core areas which include IT Development, Operations, Support and Projects.
What you’ll be doing:
You will provide DevOps services such as continuous integration, deployment, and automated environment builds with configuration management. This ensures PPL can develop new systems efficiently and maintain an optimised software development lifecycle.
You will play a key role in leading how we utilise AWS to achieve our business goals. This involves implementing either traditional AWS architecture or serverless solutions, depending on the project requirements. Your AWS expertise should not be just theoretical; it should be based on hands-on experience with APIs and microservices in a similar design pattern to ours.
You will lead by example in promoting best practices to foster the adoption of a DevOps culture. This includes advocating for version control, automation, repeatability, and reuse as standard practices within the team.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Define technical solutions and produce documentation to ensure operational efficiency and maintenance.
- Provide DevOps & AWS services, challenging existing processes, and maximising tool benefits.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of current and future business system needs, offering technical support and automation where possible.
- Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, users, colleagues, and suppliers to ensure effective communication and service provision.
- Stay updated on best practices, emerging technologies, and share knowledge to enhance team capability and productivity.
What’s you’ll need:
- Experience working in a DevOps team.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Platforms
- Experience in creating CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in scripting, writing structured, easily maintainable scripts & code with appropriate source control.
- Experience working with containerised applications.
- Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle best practices for client-server product architectures, focusing predominantly on cloud-based server development.
Next Steps
If this sounds like you, then apply today!
Equality and Diversity at PPL
PPL are committed to equal opportunities, diversity and inclusivity; therefore, we welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community.
Here at PPL we are proud to operate in a genuine, open and straightforward way while continuing to maximise all opportunities as they arise striving to represent PPL’s members. Our job is to protect our members’ rights, and make sure their talent and investment is rewarded fairly. We take an entrepreneurial approach, working together to create new ways to deliver better service and solve business challenges. Collaboration creates great things; everyone’s talent deserves recognition and each of our members is important to us. We are the professional face for our clients. We serve with a smile and go the extra mile when representing them. We share a passion for music – that’s why we do what we do.
