DevOps Engineer Sky News

Key Responsibilities

• Manage cloud-based hosting infrastructure and associated services.

• Build and maintain cloud-native development and deployment infrastructure.

• Support engineering teams with platform operations, reliability, and deployment workflows.

• Automate and improve development, deployment, and release processes.

• Ensure systems are safe, secure, and compliant with cybersecurity standards.

• Design, deploy, and manage containerized applications using AWS ECS.

• Operate scalable, highly available container-based production environments.

• Partner with engineering teams to optimize cloud-native architectures.

• Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, and incident response.

• Serve as release engineer for deployments across digital platforms.

• Provide technical incident support as part of a 24/7 on-call rota.

KEY SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• Minimum 2+ years of relevant DevOps or cloud engineering experience.

• Solid experience with AWS cloud environments.

• Strong experience with CI/CD automation.

• Strong hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK.

• Extensive knowledge of Agile-based software development life cycles.

• Use Python and shell scripting to automate cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows.

• Strong Linux systems and services administration experience.

• Strong experience operating containerized workloads using AWS ECS.

• Experience with Docker containerization.

• Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL or other relational databases.

• Strong experience using Git-based source control workflows (GitHub/GitLab).

• Familiarity with microservices architecture and cloud deployment patterns.

• Proficient in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and CloudFormation.

• Experience with performance testing and tuning of distributed systems.

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) is a strong advantage.

• Experience with NGINX administration and optimization.

• CDN configuration and implementation experience.

• Understanding of VOD and streaming protocols (HLS / RTMP / DASH / RTP).