DevOps Engineer

Collinson Group

  • Haywards Heath, West Sussex London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world's original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world's leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception - from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.Key clients include Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.Are you passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, and high-performing environments? We're on the lookout for a DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic and forward-thinking engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of our development and infrastructure teams, streamlining deployment, enhancing performance, and driving continuous improvement across our systems. This role will suit someone with experience of multiple technologies who, whilst retaining an interest in the individual technologies, wishes to take a broader view of application solutions.Your Responsibilities:
  • Drive efficiency, automation, and continuous improvement across our environments
  • Design and document new processes, keeping existing documentation current
  • Enhance security posture and monitor environments proactively
  • Handle code deployments across all stages of the SDLC
  • Collaborate closely with developers, infrastructure, and cross-functional teams
  • Keep technical knowledge and documentation up-to-date
  • Contribute DevOps expertise throughout the entire project lifecycle
  • Participate in the on-call rota to respond to critical production issues
  • Proactively identify and implement automation opportunities
What we are looking for:
  • Degree in IT, Computing, Engineering, or related field
  • Enterprise DevOps experience
  • Experience in monitoring and tuning systems to provide optimum performance and high availability
  • Experience in managing internal and external system security
Technical skills:
  • Continuous Deployment pipelines
  • Terraform
  • Git
  • Puppet
  • PowerShell
  • TeamCity
  • Octopus Deploy
  • Windows-based environments
  • AWS cloud hosting
Desirable:
  • APM tools (Application Performance Monitoring)
  • ELK Stack
  • NoSQL & RDBMS databases
  • AWS Lambda
  • Experience with Continuous Delivery pipelines
Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).If you need any extra support throughout the interview process, then please email us at

Collinson Group