Infinity Quest
DevOps Engineer
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This role is for a DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3 years in a leadership role. Key skills include strong programming in Java, JavaScript, or Python, and hands-on experience with monitoring tools. Contract length and pay rate are unspecified.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
May 26, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Grafana #Python #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #VMware #Observability #Cloud #Load Balancing #Java #Docker #JavaScript #Linux #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #Monitoring #Programming #DevOps #Azure #API (Application Programming Interface) #Kubernetes #Unix #Leadership #Databases #Computer Science #KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Data Visualisation
Role description
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or technical lead role focused on DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
• Solid understanding of how the internet and HTTP work under the hood — DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, service meshes, and API gateways — and how these come together in modern microservice architectures.
• Strong programming ability (structured and OOP) in one or more of: Java, JavaScript, Python, or Clojure.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB; familiarity with time-series databases and data visualisation concepts.
• A proactive mindset — you spot problems, performance bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities before they become urgent.
• Proven experience managing critical production incidents under pressure.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies and drive self-development and knowledge sharing within the team.
Nice to Have
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and networking fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with KVM/VMware virtualisation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or technical lead role focused on DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
• Solid understanding of how the internet and HTTP work under the hood — DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, service meshes, and API gateways — and how these come together in modern microservice architectures.
• Strong programming ability (structured and OOP) in one or more of: Java, JavaScript, Python, or Clojure.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB; familiarity with time-series databases and data visualisation concepts.
• A proactive mindset — you spot problems, performance bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities before they become urgent.
• Proven experience managing critical production incidents under pressure.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies and drive self-development and knowledge sharing within the team.
Nice to Have
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and networking fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with KVM/VMware virtualisation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
