Reporting to Senior Technology Team Lead.
The role
The DevOps role is responsible for the overall DevOps infrastructure for all K2 applications. There is a roadmap for a strategic development program to expand the external service offerings, which is a business priority. Significant business growth over the last year and plans for much more growth is driving a lot of the general system enhancement requirements including automating processes to drive efficiencies. This in turn requires close partnership between the business and technology teams as we shape the future processes for the firm.
As well as excellent technical skills this role needs strong analytical skills and a team player to help deliver on projects and systems for this critical K2 system. This role is immediately important to K2 achieving its next chapter of growth with technology at the heart of this critical part of the business strategy, and as a result offers career growth with more system and technical strategy ownership as knowledge of the system and technology offering increases.

Main duties and responsibilities
K2 DevOps Engineer

Responsible for designing technical solutions for the assigned projects
Learn and understand AWS and Lambda deployments, CI/CD pipelines
Ensuring quality of system rollouts, production availability and performance
Partner with support team for L2-L3 escalations, including out of hours rota as required
Excellent people skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties.
Experience: Skills / Abilities & Knowledge
Required
Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence
Good working experience with ;

*AWS(EC2,VPC,Networking)
* CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, etc)
* GitHub Actions
* Any scripting language
* Ability to learn fast, have attention to detail and be able to progress tasks

Preferred/Nice to have
Technical skills:
* Python
* MySQL
* Working with REST APIs (Postman, cURL)
* AWS KMS / Encryption experience
Good skills in System specification, process modelling techniques and system
architectures knowledge

Good communication in English, both oral and written
Teamwork
+4 years of relevant technology experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, General Information Technology or a related field

Working Hours
8 hours a day
2-3 days a week in the office together with the rest of the Technology team, to ensure quality time with all of the new local team members as we build our Romania based team

23 days holiday per year plus Public Holidays

Training
Opportunities for technical certifications
Opportunities for relevant conference attendance

Career Progression
This role is part of a new Technology Team at K2, and so being at the start of this journey will open up many opportunities for individual growth as the overall team grows in size and responsibility. As you learn K2 systems and technology infrastructure you will be given more responsibility, more autonomy to influence system architectures, and increase seniority. We will also ensure that there is the opportunity to learn new technologies as these are adopted by K2. This is a long term role at K2 and we invest in our people.