Senior DevOps Engineer

About the job

Description

Our client is a well-established global fintech business specialising in foreign exchange. It offers a broad suite of currency products and services, from data and market insight through to international payments for both individuals and businesses, delivered across web, mobile and phone. Its platforms serve hundreds of millions of users each year.

About This Role

Our client is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing team responsible for building and transforming its technology estate. Partnering closely with Development and Security, you will build systems that improve the experience of millions of customers. The work spans building and deploying products, strengthening monitoring and the detection of production issues, and delivering integrations that meet customer needs. You will also provide guidance and support to multiple development teams in the UK and internationally. If you have a strong background in building modern systems, this role could be a great fit.

CULTURE & VALUES

• Ambition: an experimental, forward-thinking culture with high standards for delivery
• Ownership: people are encouraged to get involved, share their perspective and take personal accountability
• Collaboration: a trusting, inclusive environment where people can be themselves

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and run applications in production that are hosted in AWS, VMware, Kubernetes
• Collaborate with development and IT Operations teams to support a continuous delivery model
• Immediately start to transform and grow existing platforms and services
• Create systems to enable a self-service development environment
• Demonstrate a high performing 'DevOps' culture
• Deliver zero-downtime deployments and build highly available systems

Position Requirements

• Strong experience with implementing software delivery pipelines.
• Configuration management and IaC. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar.
• Experience with monitoring systems, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, Icinga2, APM
• DevOps - Kubernetes, Github, Artifactory, ElasticSearch, Docker, AWS ECS/EKS
• Hosting services - AWS, VMware, etc.
• Understanding of Linux, Windows servers, and networking.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Desirable: experience running large scale web applications and APIs in production