Senior DevOps Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Avantia Law, a leading legal services innovator, as a Senior DevOps Engineer/Backend Engineer. You will design, build, and maintain internal web applications, create APIs for legal tools, and manage deployment pipelines. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience in DevOps or backend engineering, proficiency in Python, and experience with AWS services. While remote-first, some in-office collaboration is required. Avantia offers a flexible and inclusive work environment with various benefits including 25 days of holiday, private healthcare or wellness budget, mental health subscriptions, early finish Fridays, a pension scheme, and enhanced family-friendly policies.

Requirements

• 5+ years progressive experience as a DevOps or Backend engineer
• Experienced with building and managing CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience in writing production software or experience working with and configuring infrastructure
• Experience with tools such as AWS Lambda / OpenSearch (ElasticSearch) / ElastiCache (redis) as well as Docker/git

Responsibilities

• Design/build and maintain internal-facing web applications
• Create applications/API's for the firm’s legal tools (KYC & Contracts), implement features using AI for workflow tracking and document searching
• Building and managing deployment pipelines and setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Configuring monitoring/alerting on production systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Start-up experience would be highly advantageous but not essential
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code solutions (eg: CloudFormation/Terraform) is a plus

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays + 1 Day off for your birthday
• Private healthcare or the option to use the budget to be reimbursed for other wellness activities of your choice
• Annual subscription to your choice of Calm or Headspace
• Early finish Fridays in the summer
• Pension scheme (enhanced after 1 year service)
• Enhanced family friendly policies after 1 year