Staff DevOps Engineer Job Description
About the Role
You’ll architect resilient cloud‑native environments, streamline deployment pipelines, and deliver tailored automation solutions that drive customer success at scale. This is a high‑impact role for a technical expert who thrives on cross‑functional collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivering value through infrastructure excellence.
A Day in the Life of Our Staff DevOps Engineer
- Have clear and solid relationships with software development departments.
- Plan and document work and projects.
- Build and continuously optimize CI/CD process and streamline automation effort for server provisioning and applications deployment.
- Build a resilient and scalable service infrastructure to accommodate regions.
- Deploy, monitor and scale application services.
- Mentor team members and drive knowledge sharing.
- Participate in project management and on‑going strategic planning.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE environment.
- 6+ years of experience working with Linux and Windows systems.
- Strong understanding and knowledge of Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding and knowledge of cloud infrastructure components such as AWS Cloud (EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda, Opensearch, S3, FSX, Route53 and network appliances.)
- Working knowledge of Jenkins, GitLab or alternative CI systems.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as a Code approach (Terraform preferred).
- Good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle.
- Good understanding of microservice architecture.
- Good experience in Monitoring k8s clusters, APM, services and infrastructure located in AWS (NewRelic, Prometheus).
- Ability to create automation tools in Go, Python, Bash, Powershell.
- Familiarity with Continuous Delivery tools used with microservices.
- Coding experience.
Company Description
Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.
Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space.
More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium.
We are growing, debt‑free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry.
Form of work
We work in the office 5 days a week, so you must be located close to our office in Cambridge Science Park.
Benefits
- Private health insurance including dental coverage
- Pension scheme with company match up to 9%
- nilo.health, mental health and wellbeing support
- Remote working abroad program
- Professional development support and resources
- Employee referral program
- 28 days’ holiday + public holidays and special leave
- Enhanced family and special leave
- Free lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office
- Electric car charging stations, free office parking, bicycle, and scooter storage