We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Digital team in the UK.
As a department we are at the very beginning of a DevOps journey, which is one of the reasons we are now hiring for DevOps engineers. We are embarking on the next generation of audio experiences, and as part of this, you will be involved in an exciting departmental transformation in our ways of working and the technologies we use. Within this role you will be embedded in one of the delivery squads ensuring that all systems/network/tooling requirements of the teams are met. You will also be responsible for making sure documentation exists working with the SRE's to identify, recommend, test and rollout new tooling.
We are embarking on the next generation of audio experiences, and as part of this, you will be involved in an exciting departmental transformation in our ways of working and the technologies we use.
The successful candidate for this role, will be an individual that loves a challenge, and see’s the task of helping us at the start of our DevOps journey as a challenge they would love to be part of.
Our Team
Bauer Media Audio operates a ‘hub and spoke’ model for digital. The central digital team supports our country business units with strategy, insight, innovation, product management, technology, IP distribution and support. Our country teams are responsible for local planning, content and commercial delivery. As part of a combined community of digital experts, the teams work in partnership to create outstanding services to our users and deliver commercial success.
As a team we thrive on combining local market excellence with a wider, global perspective.
This role is a mixture of home and office work. It can be located out of numerous office locations across the UK including London, Manchester and Peteborough.
What You'll Do
Key Responsibilities and tasks:
Maintain, patch, refine and extend existing infrastructure
Design and implement new infrastructure as required
Maintain and develop terraform code
Maintain and develop build systems & pipelines
Ensure software systems are as up to date as possible
Peer review code and have code per reviewed
Communicate clearly with Software development and Product teams
Maintain and extend our monitoring, metrics, and alerting systems
Support applications in production, regarding both performance and reliability
Support development team with internal tooling
Monitor all assets (infrastructure and code) from a perspective of Security, recommending
and implementing solutions when necessary
Take part in out of hours on-call Rota. (1 week in 5)
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
Years of experience are less important to us, we are not looking to tick boxes with this role, and we are open to looking at candidates from all backgrounds. It would be great if you had some of the below:
A great team player that genuinely believes in solving challenges as a team.
Proactive mindset – with high attention to detail
Extensive experience working with deployment pipelines
Professional experience working with AWS, Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Kubernetes/Docker
Software development practices/design patterns, debugging, and performance tuning at a
senior level
Supporting Linux-based production systems
DBA Skills with relational and NoSQL database’s
A desire to build infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and support applications in production
High attention to detail
Good analytical thinking
Flexible working.
We want to make sure that we find the right people to work in our teams, and we know that the traditional 9-5, five days a week doesn’t suit everyone. So, we would love to hear from you if you feel you’re a great fit for this role and would like to work flexibly. If you are the right person for this role, we’ll find the right working approach for you.
Package Description
Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
- Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
- Opportunity to buy additional holiday
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
- Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
- Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
- Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
- Discounted high street vouchers
About Bauer Media Group
Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute, TV Choice, Scala, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more!
Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world’s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers.
Belonging at Bauer Mission statement
People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.
What we will offer you
Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.
Our mental health at work
We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.
Learning and Development
As the only Media company to be in the top 100 apprenticeship employers, we are striving to always be a great place to do great work for all, Bauer is committed to offering learning and development initiatives through its Bauer Academy tailored to its people, empowering teams and individuals to grow and progress in their careers.
Please Note: We are actively seeking this position
Bauer Core Values
Passion
We LOVE what we do – it inspires, unifies and challenges us. Our passion is contagious – both loud and quiet, making the impossible possible.
Excellence
Our desire for excellence fuels our ambition for personal and business growth.
Trust
We value honesty and integrity. Trust is our foundation, empowering our people to live up to their full potential.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is our pursuit of opportunity – we are agile, focused and resourceful
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.