DevOps Engineer

About Cake Solutions

A BAMTECH MEDIA COMPANY - Delivering Direct to Consumer video at scale.

Cake Solutions delivers well-engineered, resilient, responsive, and elastic systems. Successful systems are not just lines of code; they are a result of the best architecture, engineering, and project management. We all come to work to make our systems elastic, resilient, and responsive, but also ready for change. Our expertise in engineering & delivering distributed systems enables us to excel in implementing business-critical Internet of Things, media delivery, and e-commerce systems.

Position

You will be helping to build and deploy system infrastructure in a cloud-focused environment while providing operational advice to developers when appropriate. Our experienced, cross-functional agile teams enable the delivery of entire solutions not just lines of code.

Joining Cake will help you develop your love for automating things and making developer and ops lives better. We will help you to develop your technical skills further keeping you up to date with new DevOps technologies and working with clients on a Global scale.

A successful candidate will have a real passion for on-going learning and continuous skills development. The role will involve creating and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines, to ensure automated and repeatable development processes.

Your qualification

• Agile working practices
• Amazon Web Services e.g. EC2, S3, Route53 (or an equivalent cloud provider)
• Experience or understanding of managing infrastructure as code using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform
• Unix/Linux OS administration and configuration
• Python / Ruby / Go / Groovy (good understanding of any one of these languages)
• Build servers - i.e. Hudson, Jenkins, etc.
• Virtualization software: Vagrant, Oracle VirtualBox, VMware, Parallels
• Demonstrable experience with at least one configuration management tool e.g. Puppet / Chef / Ansible
• Experience in building and deploying one or more of the following types of applications: Scala, Go, .NET, Java, Erlang
• NoSql database admin - MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, etc.
• Apache Mesos/Marathon, DC/OS, Kubernetes, Zookeeper, etc.
• Kafka
• Contributions to the technical community, either through blogs, internal workshops, meetups or conferences.

What we offer

If working for our Stockport office requires emigrating please do not fear. Cake offers visa sponsorship as well as support in the relocation process.

 We currently house 20 different nationalities within the company and embrace a diverse range of cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds.

We also provide fantastic benefits, some of which include, Perkbox access, informative lunch and learn sessions, gym membership, attendance at international conferences, a cycle to work scheme, unlimited holiday allowance (paid & unpaid), flexible working and a team football match every Tuesday evening!