Senior DevOps Engineer
About Us
At FOD Mobility Group, we believe in using technology to help people make better travel decisions that can improve their lives. With an ever-expanding team of technology focused individuals, working in offices based in Saltaire, we pride ourselves in creating one of the best working environments in West Yorkshire. 🏆
FOD Mobility Group is a leading multi-platform technology company focused on corporate and consumer mobility. The Group's market-leading technology and services include global vehicle hire and mobility company Fleetondemand. 🚗
About the Role
Joining our small DevOps team you will provide senior expertise in working on the design, build, support and improvement of our AWS infrastructure. You will work with our development, infosec and product teams to help make the most out of cloud technologies / automation, to deliver stability, scalability and value.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Provide technical expertise to the DevOps and other teams to guide and support the engineers with technical challenges, strategic and tactical direction
- Collaborate with stakeholders and teams to find common pain points and address them with the DevOps engineers
- Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, scalability and cost of the environments
- Proactively support, maintain, and develop our AWS infrastructure to maintain a highly available 24x7x365 service for our customers
- Ensure mission critical platforms and services are always operational
- Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments
- Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
- Proactively monitor system performance and capacity planning
- Write scripts, build tools, and automate common processes
- Investigate alerts raised from security systems and escalate to our Security Operations Centre where necessary
Skills, Experience & Expertise
- Previous working experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) - particularly Cloudformation, EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, RDS, Eventbridge & Cloudwatch
- Solid practical knowledge and experience with Docker
- Solid practical knowledge and experience with Docker Swarm
- Experience running applications at scale, especially horizontally scaled systems and/or distributed systems
- Previous working experience with Continuous Integrations (CI) Services, ideally GitHub Actions
- Excellent understanding of Jira, sprints, Kanban, and workload planning
- Experience with monitoring and alerting toolchains, particularly Grafana + Prometheus
- Web server configuration for Apache & nginx
- Demonstrable knowledge and practical hands-on experience of Linux systems Working knowledge of bash, python & PHP
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills, able to communicate effectively in all areas of the business
Desirable Experience
- AWS certifications desirable but not mandatory
Our values
🥇 Aim high: Set bold objectives that push the limits of what’s possible. We continually raise the bar for excellence by challenging ourselves and the capabilities of our technology.
📢 Be disruptive: The world has never been changed by rebels without a cause. It’s also never been changed by passive observers. Be bold enough to be the first. Be right enough to create lasting change.
🔍 Transparent delivery: We foster reliability, consistency and trustworthiness at all levels of our company. We are honest and transparent about what we can deliver and follow through on our commitments.
🤝 Better together: Great ideas aren’t created in a vacuum. We value joint problem solving, collaboration, partnerships and alliances to embrace our collective strengths.
🧠 Open heart, open mind: Everyone you know, knows something that you don’t. Embrace everyone regardless of position, background or experience. Listen to other people’s ideas. Be receptive to differences and avoid assumptions.
🏃 Play the long game: Prioritise sustainable growth over short-term gains. We invest in our people and products with a long-term mindset which translates into results that stand the test of time.
Life at FOD
🏆 FOD Legend awards held every quarter with an extra special annual award
🎉 Social events held during and after work hours with free drinks and catering often provided
📱 Weekly, themed Friday Cheers events (our last one was speed quizzing!)
💛 Regular charity events for our charity of the year
🙏 Quiet room for prayer, meditation, and quiet time
☕ Barista-style coffee machine with free biscuits, fruit, toast, and hot chocolate
📺 Various meeting rooms kitted out with the latest tech to help hybrid teams work best
🧠 Mental health first aid trained People & Culture team
😃 Therapy via private healthcare after 1 years’ service or EAP CBT programme
📚 Immediate access to training, mentoring, and professional development support
Your compensation package
- 25 days of annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays!)
- Holiday buy and sell scheme for up to 5 days
- Paid birthday day off
- Free onsite parking
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private healthcare scheme available to you after 1 year of continuous service
- Salary sacrifice schemes including bikes, technology, furniture and car rental
- Free eyecare vouchers and contribution towards glasses
- Employee Referral Scheme up to £500 for successful referral
- Workplace pension scheme with 4% match
- EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - legal, life support, mental health
- Annual flu jabs and health checks
Working Hours
You are required to work 37.5 hours per week between Monday and Friday, with core working hours from 8am to 6pm.
This is a hybrid role so travel to our head office in Saltaire will be required when necessary.
If you like the sound of the role and believe in the same things that we do, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by clicking ‘Apply’ now.
