Midweight DevOps Engineer

Midweight DevOps Engineer

Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

Department: Digital

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Remote

Compensation: £40,500 - £60,000 / year

Description

Location: Remote, but occasional travel to our Poole or London offices will be required

Diversity matters  We are building a brand that represents the people of the world. It’s what you do that counts, and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future. 
We see you, we celebrate you, we want you!
Who we are
You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good.

The Living Wage Foundation’s statement 'a hard day's work deserves a fair day's pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what’s inside that counts - whether that’s an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone.

LUSH Digital offers a range of exciting online and in store experiences for our customers.
Developers of many disciplines are responsible for creating and developing new innovations
in technology, as well as providing and maintaining a global digital estate across multiple
platforms and devices.

We love open source! The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is always our first port of
call when a requirement for a new tool comes up. Whenever we can, the code we produce
is made public for all to use.

Role overview
As a DevOps Engineer you will be working with the rest of the team to collaborate closely
with our engineers to deploy, operate and enhance the global digital infrastructure. Building
and maintaining the tools for deployment and monitoring operations whilst troubleshooting
and solving any problems the engineering team may face whilst getting their code in front of
its users. As well as this, as part of the LUSH Digital plan to move away from big tech, you’ll
be assisting us in removing our reliance on GCP which involves planning and scoping new
projects, finding which tools fit our use cases and implementing them for developers to use.
We would like to see knowledge of the latest DevOps tools and practices. Experience with

Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD and any cloud platform (we currently use GCP) is
required.

We love automation so programming / scripting skills are beneficial. Understanding
application profiling and observability tools including Prometheus/Grafana and large-scale
distributed systems would also be beneficial. Knowledge of networking and web protocols
would be a plus.

You can find out more about Lush Digital here -
https://weare.lush.com/lush-life/our-company/we-are-digital/

Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management & Automation:
  • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform.
  • Manage and optimize containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab CI/CD and ArgoCD.
  • Automate deployment, scaling, and monitoring processes to ensure high availability.
• Cloud Platform Transition:
  • Contribute to the strategic shift away from GCP, researching, evaluating, and implementing alternative solutions.
  • Plan and scope new projects related to cloud platform migration and tool adoption.
  • Assist in the selection and implementation of new DevOps tools to support evolving needs.
• Monitoring & Observability:
  • Implement and maintain observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) for application profiling and performance monitoring.
  • Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues.
  • Establish and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems.
• Production Environment Support:
  • Ensure the stability and reliability of the global production environment, with a focus on minimizing downtime.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related issues in a 24/7 global environment.
  • Work with Cloudflare or other DNS providers to manage and optimize DNS configurations.
• Collaboration & Communication:
  • Collaborate closely with development teams to support their deployment and operational needs.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to engineers on DevOps best practices.
  • Document infrastructure configurations and processes.
  • Contribute to open source projects when possible.
    
    

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Required:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform and familiarity
• with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) components (Any cloud provider is
• advantageous).
• Strong knowledge in containerisation/containerisation orchestration technologies,
• including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, particularly Gitlab CI/CD and ArgoCD.
• Familiarity with application profiling and observability tools such as Loki,
• Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience with Cloudflare or another DNS provider
• Experience working in a global production environment with minimal/no downtime.
• Our reach is global, so a 24/7 operation.

Desired:

• Programming or scripting abilities, with a focus on Bash and Golang (the wider dev
• teams use Python and TypeScript).
• Knowledge of networking and web protocols is advantageous.
• Familiarity with database technologies, such as MySQL and Postgres

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• *6 months’ full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver)
• *Enhanced paternity leave
• Bonus scheme
• Day off for weekday birthdays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted rail and bus season tickets 
• Employee assistance programme
• *Financial childcare support on return to work
• We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
• Support groups, film nights, yoga, meditation sessions and much more

*qualifying period & hours required.

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