Looking for an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is revolutionising the medical industry? Look no further than FundamentalVR! As a global pioneer in immersive VR surgical skills training and performance data, we are changing the way surgeons are trained and lowering the surgical risk to patients with our patented HapticVRTM technology.
With our unique hardware-agnostic platform, surgeons can be trained in any setting, at any time, anywhere in the world, without the need for costly and resource-intensive wet labs, animal testing, or cadavers. Join us at FundamentalVR and be part of the future of medical training and patient care!
About The Role
We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to play a critical role in our software development and deployment process. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of AWS services, hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, and a strong SRE mindset to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our applications.
What You Will Do
- Deploy, and manage scalable and reliable AWS infrastructure using services such as ElasticSearch, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Route53, WAF, and VPC
- Deploy and enforce IAM best practices
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Automate testing, building, and deployment processes to streamline software releases
- Ensure best practices for version control, branching, and code reviews are followed
- Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
- Respond to incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and implement improvements to prevent future issues
- Work closely with development, QA, and product teams to support a seamless DevOps process.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to team members on best practices for DevOps and SRE.
- Document processes, infrastructure configurations, and operational procedures.
- Participate in agile development and SCRUM
- Engage in collective responsibility for maintaining a high-quality product
Requirements
What We Are Looking For
- 5+ years professional experience in similar roles
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a focus on AWS
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation or CDK
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues
- Knowledge of and enthusiasm for industry best practices
Good to Have:
- AWS certification(s) such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or similar.
- Experience with AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations
- Experience with other CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or TeamCity
- Familiarity with additional cloud platforms like Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Knowledge and experience with other IaC solutions such as Terraform and Ansible
- Knowledge of security best practices and experience implementing security measures in a cloud environment
- Team leadership experience
- Interest in management and mentorship
Who You Are
- You understand what it means to work in a startup, this excites and motivates you
- You like to do everything to a high standard but know when to be pragmatic
- You are highly collaborative and an excellent communicator
- You proactively flag issues as they occur and openly discuss them with your manager to address problems promptly and utilise them as learning opportunities to improve and grow together as a team
Benefits
- Private Healthcare
- Death in service insurance
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave
- Perks: Access to hundreds of vouchers and discounts
- 25 days of holidays per year (which includes 3 days between Christmas and new year) + bank holidays + one extra day per year, up to a maximum of 28 days.
- Opportunity to participate in and become a key player in a fast-paced start-up environment with lots of exciting growth opportunities
- Opportunity to work with VR plus haptics, the next frontier of simulation and virtual reality
Fundamental VR operates a hybrid working model - with a need to come into the office circa 4 days a month
Diversity Is Our Strength
Fundamental VR is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability or age.
At Fundamental VR, we have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing the best medical training experiences to our clients around the world, and we know our company runs on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.
You must be a UK or EU national or have a valid visa, unfortunately we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.
