DevOps Engineer(Engineering) - London, United Kingdom - Legatics

Description

We are hiring remotely for this role in Europe

Help us simplify legal transactions
A large segment of the legal industry works on transactional legal processes.

Building a wind farm, merging two companies or selling a skyscraper - lawyers help make these things happen and their work is surprisingly similar to planning and leading a technology project.

For example, how do you make sure that when you buy a building you're getting all the land you think you're getting? How do you make sure you don't fund a wind farm and then find that there is no permission to build it or that the people you funded are scammers? Since the dawn of Microsoft Word, this humble word processor has been the default way to manage these legal transactions.

We want to change this, by building a platform that allows transactions to be managed online, and in a collaborative way.

That means we're on a mission to transform the $600bn market for legal services worldwide.

Our customers include some of the world's top law firms, such as Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Freehills, Shearman & Sterling and King & Wood Mallesons.

We are looking to hire a specialist DevOps engineer to join our team. The role is available at junior or mid level, dependent upon your skills and experience.

We see DevOps as a team-wide ethos and approach and something that involves all of our engineers - we aren't aiming to build a classical infrastructure operations team with a different name.

Our goal is to have a group of experts who are responsible for infrastructure setup and configuration, monitoring and visibility but who also develop and deploy tools, reusable frameworks and components for use in product development and to help us optimise our infrastructure and working practices.

We are working towards full Continuous Delivery, using feature flags and canary or blue/green deployments to allow frequent, small releases to our production environments.

We need to further develop our logging and monitoring solution, including adding advanced features around security and distributed anomaly detection.

We build web-facing applications, running on Linux, deployed in AWS and working in Agile teams. We use React, and Python, with GraphQL between front- and backend.

Assist in designing and implementing, with our development teams, scalable, reliable infrastructure, deployment processes and tools
Contribute to the automation and streamlining of deployment, testing, and release processes using appropriate tools, building on what we already have and extending with new capabilities where helpful
Monitor and optimise system performance and availability, helping engineering teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues as they arise
Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployment, and release processes
Support Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration and deployment

Steve Howe, Devops Lead - who you will be reporting into, alongside a welcoming, inclusive and committed team.
We love to socialise together too, holding regular team events.

Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, working with AWS
Experienced Linux user - preferably Debian-based distros
Proficiency in at least one scripting and one programming language, ideally including Bash scripting. Javascript or Python will be a plus
Experience with automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and building high-availability infrastructure using them
Familiarity with web-based systems and the core internet protocols, experience with TCP/IP networking
Strong problem-solving and communication skills, in English
Upper-intermediate level of English

Bonus points for the following (but don't worry, these are NOT essential):

Experience building and maintaining software and tools for use as-a-service by software development teams
Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
Have proficiency in troubleshooting network issues, TCP handshake process, web caching at different levels, routing and NAT/PAT work, DNS, email etc
Experience with penetration tests, automated security test systems (Prowler, AWS Config etc)
Familiarity with web-based systems and the core internet protocols
25 days holiday per year (plus public holidays).
~ Early Finish Fridays - on the last Friday of every month, we finish at lunchtime
~ Pension with NEST.
~ Access to Mental healthcare for you and your immediate family.
~ Enhanced parental leave policies so you can spend more time with your family.
~ Lots of opportunities for accelerated professional development and career progression.
~ Work alongside a supportive and talented team with the opportunity to grow one of the world's leading LegalTech scale-ups.
~ Technology
js on AWS, managed using Terraform, Kustomize and Kubernetes. Our frontend is an SPA built with React and Redux, with some Ramda. We have a dedicated test / QA team, doing a combination of manual and automated testing.

We work according to DevOps principles and we're working towards full CI/CD, aiming for frequent small releases supported by feature flags, distributed config management, monitoring & tracing, etc.

Power in diversity
We put users at the heart of our design to provide legal transaction experiences that everyone loves.

In order to make that a reality, we seek to foster a diverse and inclusive working environment that can empower our people to be creative, effective and innovative, to build a brand we are proud of.

We don't discriminate against gender, race, religion or belief, disability, age, marital status or sexual orientation. Whatever your background may be, we welcome anyone with talent, drive and emotional intelligence.

We're committed to building a diverse team and are constantly looking for ways to improve our processes to help us do that.