DevOps Engineer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are a London fintech, building a problem resolution network for the financial industry. In our first two years since going live, we have signed over 500 banks in 50 countries.

Our clients' back-office operations use our services to quickly connect withthe right people with the right skills in the right firms, to resolve queries and issues quickly & efficiently.

We're looking for someone who has a passion for technology, SRE, DevOps, a hunger to learn, and the professionalism required in a mission critical role.

Our close-knit team of operations engineers automate everything; system administration, continuous integration,deployments, monitoring, metrics and tooling.

They enjoy working on complex problems with others and are not afraid to span the stack from the network all the way to building and extending tools.

Responsibilities

Building, monitoring and maintaining a 100% cloud environment (AWS)
Enabling to keep creating secure, reliable, repeatable production rollouts of the platform
Helping to define SLOs and measure SLIs
Developing tooling that enhances the lives and happiness of the Dev and Ops team alike
Investigating new technologies that advance the observability and performance of our platform
Taking ownership of tasks, communicating ideas and decisions throughout the team and ensuring tasks are fully completed with high quality

Requirements:

Strong Unix/Linux administration skills, that includes understanding TCP/IP networking, scripting (Bash or Python)
Proven experience in an agile, fastpaced and productoriented environment as an SRE or related 'DevOps' role
A dislike of adhoc or manual processes, enjoyment of automating them away and experience of doing this using one or more of Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt etc.
Participation in a 24/7/365 operations oncall rotation responsible for mission critical systems
Strong teamwork, written and oral communication skills

Desirable Attributes

An understanding of modern infrastructure design & administration, experience of using AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or one of the other IaaS providers (Linode, Digital Ocean, OpenStack, VMWare, XEN) and using Terraform, CloudFormation, boto or otherorchestration tools
An appreciation for security, both in design & operation
Ability to work in a small team part of a larger organisation, capable of independent work & working with distributed team members
Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery (tooling and approach)
Experience of or a strong desire to be part of a larger engineering organisation
Experience building, operating, maintaining & scaling RabbitMQ/AMQP & Postgres
Experience with containers and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
A degree in a relevant discipline