Principal DevOps Engineer

Location: London 

Full time, permanent

Salary: £95,000

Tes is an international provider of digital solutions, which is passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

As the Principal DevOps Engineer, you'll spearhead our Kubernetes-driven initiatives within the AWS cloud ecosystem. With expertise in low-level design and architectural choices, you'll play a pivotal role in architecting, implementing, and maintaining our Kubernetes infrastructure. Your role will also involve presenting technical strategies and progress updates to management, ensuring alignment with our DevOps, CI/CD, and overall cloud strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Kubernetes Architecture & Management:
  • Architect, implement, and maintain robust Kubernetes clusters within AWS, specifically leveraging Amazon EKS.
  • Design and oversee both high-level and low-level designs for cluster management, pod deployment, network configuration, and storage integrations.
  • Work with stakeholders to gather requirements, ensuring that Kubernetes solutions are aligned with business needs.
• Cloud Architecture and Management:
  • Design, implement, and manage cloud architectures using AWS services, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
  • Use infrastructure-as-code principles, utilizing tools such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform, to manage AWS resources.
  • Collaborate on the design, configuration, and maintenance of AWS services that support the Kubernetes environment and other applications, including services like EC2, RDS, VPC, and more.
• CI/CD & Automation:
  • Develop and maintain Kubernetes-integrated CI/CD pipelines leveraging tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Tekton.
  • Automate deployment processes within Kubernetes, ensuring seamless application rollouts and rollbacks.
• Monitoring, Logging & Performance:
  • Implement monitoring and logging solutions for Kubernetes using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluentd.
  • Analyze cluster and application performance within Kubernetes, optimizing where necessary.
• Collaboration & Integration:
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure containerized applications are Kubernetes-ready.
  • Integrate Kubernetes with other AWS services and tools to ensure a holistic cloud approach.

What will you need to succeed?

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Significant experience in a DevOps role with a heavy emphasis on Kubernetes and AWS.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes concepts, architecture, and best practices.
• Capability to draft low-level design documents and translate technical requirements into detailed architectural blueprints.
• Experience with AWS services, particularly Amazon EKS.
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Solid understanding of networking and storage principles within a Kubernetes context.
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to management and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Kubernetes certifications, such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• Experience in multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments or federated clusters.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies, like Istio or Linkerd, within a Kubernetes environment.

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• Hybrid working, 3+ days in the office
• Health care cash plan
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking 
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes powers schools and enables great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

For more than 100 years, we’ve supported schools and been a champion of great teaching. As education is changing, so are we. We’ve grown to provide a wide range of products to help schools and students flourish.

We work together with teachers and schools to build trusted education solutions that help them to be the best they can be. From safeguarding and compliance, to staff and pupil management, and professional development and SEND provision, our innovative and flexible services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. 

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. 

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organisation striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

www.tes.com/tesglobal