Senior DevOps Engineer

Luminary is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with exceptional programming

• Skills and server administration experience to help effectively grow our services.
• We're looking for an engineer who is well-versed in infrastructure as code and excited about
• Modern web technologies to join the Platform team at Luminary. We're at a critical point in
• Planning our future developments and we need the expertise and insight of an experienced
• DevOps engineer to help us scale and fulfil our bold ambitions within the music tech world.
• As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Luminary, you will work closely with other developers and
• Key stakeholders within the business, and report directly to the Senior Platform Lead.
• Working primarily on our JavaScript AWS-hosted stack, you will have ownership of our
• Infrastructure - the essential foundation for our customer-facing websites, our RESTful API,
• Our database and our subscription services.
• We do sprints and standups, communicate a lot, support each other, value each other's
• Opinions, and constantly strive to collaboratively improve our working environment.

What you'll do:

Support the Platform team in completing objectives on time and to the highest quality

Standards

• Help to continuously improve the quality and performance of our platform services
• Deploy, automate, manage and maintain AWS cloud-based production systems
• Ensure security best practices are implemented and maintained
• Apply security updates related to the infrastructure in a timely manner
• Develop and maintain tooling as well as communicate their use to the wider team
• Support the migration to a serverless event-driven architecture on AWS
• Build scalable and secure backend services on top of a NoSQL database
• Pair with other developers and participate in code reviews
• Help debug issues with internal APIs, the infrastructure, or 3rd party service

Integrations

Help evaluate new technology alternatives and vendor products

What you'll need:

• Proven Linux server management ability
• Min 3 years of commercial experience with AWS
• Some commercial experience with Lambda (with Serverless framework preferably)
• Min 3 years of experience with Docker and containerisation
• Capable of writing modern Javascript / Typescript
• Strong infrastructure as code experience (AWS Cloud Development Kit preferably but

Cloudformation or Terraform ok)

• Experience setting up CI/CD with Github actions, CircleCI or similar
• Knowledgeable about Git workflows (Trunk Based Development in particular)
• Superb time-management skills and the ability to work independently
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work effectively with

Employees at all levels

Luminary offers:

• The opportunity to work with the leading minds within technology, hardware, and
• Music creation to directly impact the way we create and interact with music
• A competitive salary according to your level of experience

A range of meaningful benefits including:

Following probation, a competitive health care cash plan and a generous

Bike-to-work scheme

• A competitive company pension scheme following 3 months of full time work
• 23 days holiday with 2 additional social impact days and the standard 8

Statutory holiday days

20 hours per year dedicated to volunteering within the local community

Flexible working hours

• 'Lending Library' of all Luminary products
• Team member discounts on Luminary products
• Apple laptop and relevant software licenses for your role

Generous Parental Leave policy

Currently on hold due to COVID-19 remote working:

• A great working environment, featuring daily complimentary homemade
• Plant-based lunches and limitless homemade GOLDnola
• Wellness programme which includes regularly offered massages

Friends and family events

Company-wide Hack Days and workshops to expand your skills

In-house bike storage

• The majority of our team members are currently working remotely due to COVID-19. We will
• Discuss the latest updates with regards to remote working as part of our interview process.
• Luminary wholeheartedly believes that difference stimulates a healthy and productive
• Environment, as well as positively impact the products we create. We actively encourage
• Diversity of background and perspective, and as an equal opportunities employer, we oppose
• All forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination in all of our employment related processes and
• Matters.