Devops/SRE

DevOps engineer / Site reliability engineer / London / Perm / 70-80k dependant on experience

As a DevOps / SRE engineer you’ll help the company create and maintain best practices of running highly available services in production, enable efficient development and testing, and you’ll take part in defining and implementing smooth release processes. In addition, you’ll work together with business stakeholders to define Service Level Objectives and Indicators and make sure we have a proactively monitored, instrumented and predictable platform end to end. You will contribute to constantly innovating our tech as well as helping shape our engineering culture through learning, innovation, and sharing knowledge.

• We use GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Circle CI, Terraform, DataDog, GraphQL (Apollo), Node.js, Elixir / Erlang, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Remote Working an option (up to 50%)
• £70-90k + Awesome lifestyle benefits (incl. unlimited holiday)

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor our platform / infrastructure
• Streamline engineering / testing / deployment pipelines and go live strategies
• Champion CI/CD and Cloud best practices
• Design and deliver elegant, maintainable, and modern solutions with a focus on quality
• Contribute ideas and influence business-wide solution architecture
• Innovate by staying educated and up to date on the latest tech
• Help create a culture of learning, collaboration, innovation, and autonomy

REQUIREMENTS

Here is a list of prerequisites we believe are in alignment with our vision, culture and values. We’re open-minded, so if you recognise yourself as someone with any of these traits, we’d love to speak with you.

• Pragmatic Thinking
• Experience with Linux, Kubernetes, Docker and scripting languages
• Experience with continuous integration tools, administration of web servers and databases
• Appreciation for an engineering culture with strong automation discipline
• Believer in the infrastructure-as-code approach
• Experience with running, monitoring and maintaining systems in production
• Experience working with systems requiring 24/7 operation (high availability is beneficial)
• Understanding of microservice/service-oriented and distributed architectures
• Passionate about learning, collaborating across teams, and professional development
• Familiarity with business/development methodologies such as Agile, Lean or XP
• Focus on quality while delivering value at speed
• Energized by solving real world problems

We do not expect you to tick all the boxes – that said, you should be the type of Engineer who is open minded, who wants to pick up new technologies, learn something new and be determined to support your team while drive improvements and increasing efficiency.

Technologies we use

• Circle CI, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes
• Terraform
• DataDog (APM and Logging)
• PostgreSQL and Redis
• RabbitMQ
• Elixir with OTP (large part of the backend)
• TypeScript with Node.js
• Google Cloud Functions
• GraphQL (Apollo, with Subscriptions) for UIs
• React (think Hooks 😎)
• React Native (Mobile)
• Auth0

BENEFITS

• Cutting-edge Tech
• Great Location (Old Street)
• Remote working (up to 50%)
• Unlimited holiday
• Competitive Salary
• Lifestyle benefits (£2k a year towards personal development budget)
• Monthly social activities: well-being, fun and brain stimulation
• Macbook (or comparable)

FAQs

• How is the team/company culture?

We are product-driven (and flat-structure) organisation with strong focus on engineering. We are pragmatic, we try to move fast, but we also care about craftsmanship.

• What management style or development methodology (e.g. Scrum, XP) does the team use? Do you use JIRA or Trello?

At the moment, we prefer the Kanban method. We use JIRA (and Confluence).

• Does management have a technical background?

Our management come from different engineering disciplines who have strong trust in their product engineering team.

• Which product/area of the product will I be working on?

Our aim is to build a culture that promotes understanding of the entire platform as well as being able to contribute anywhere in the stack.

• How many people are on the team?

At the time of writing, there is 10 of us.

• How do you handle working hours? Do you use time tracking?

We usually come in for the standup, otherwise we are pretty flexible.

• What does the office environment look like? What hardware will I be using?

We are based in WeWork (Old Street for now). We use Apple hardware which will be provided based on your preference. Well-being is of utmost importance to us. You will see sports equipment around the office, a juice maker, and you will be able to use quiet space to recharge batteries.

• How do people usually dress at the office? Does the team go out for lunch together?

Casual, there is no dress code. And yes, of course!

DevOps engineer / Site reliability engineer / London / Perm / 70-80k dependant on experience

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