As a senior engineer you should lead by example when working on projects, giving critical feedback via code review to peers, and respecting other engineering decisions. Your broad experience may mean you have strong preferences for technical decisions. It’s both your responsibility to voice concerns about technical decisions being made as well as having the distance and maturity to accept decisions made by the team.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Modifying, testing and deploying changes to infrastructure


• Troubleshooting infrastructure issues


• Regular communication with both your team and the rest of the company


• Reporting technical system performance, maintenance, and outage issues to clients for both technical and non-technical audiences


• Being available for “on-call” support duties during your working hours


• Performing code reviews


• Take ownership at a project level for not only your own work, but work that interacts or impacts your own


• Assisting other engineers on your team when asked for assistance


• Carry out bug fixes and debugging not only in your own work, but others on your projects; no bug should be too obscure!


• Take an active role in improving tooling, code, and communication whether directly on a current project or assisting others on their projects.


• Remain informed on best practices within the industry


• Proactively address technical issues as they arise


• Consistently be pushing for performance and security considerations and improvements


• Provide useful architectural input and feedback for whole systems, drawing on knowledge of DevOps fundamentals, other cloud computing paradigms or frameworks


• Work with stakeholders and their expectations, navigating the relationship and taking ownership of stakeholder satisfaction


• Write technical documentation for project architecture and decisions

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, particularly services relating to high-availability web infrastructure and containerisation. For example, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB, S3, Lambda, VPC, CloudFront, Security Groups, IAM, ASG, ECS, and ECR


• Comfortable working from a Linux command-line


• Good at problem-solving and troubleshooting


• Comfortable with version control systems


• Experience with orchestration tools and contributing to existing infrastructure-as-code


• Ability to automate tasks


• Ability to use and modify CloudFormation and Terraform templates


• Familiarity with running WordPress (or comparable LEMP-based applications) at scale


• Familiarity with Docker and containerisation


• In-depth understanding of performance considerations


• In-depth understanding of security considerations


• Ability to architect complex subsystems


• Comprehensive understanding of Amazon Web Services (may be further developed on the job)