At Octopus we’re transforming the industries we operate in and improving the lives of millions of people. We’ve built market-leading positions in a number of specialist sectors, including smaller company financing, renewable energy, healthcare and property finance. We employ in excess of 750 people and manage more than £8.3 billion on behalf of more than 50,000 investors. Our products don’t just help real people solve real life problems, they also make a positive impact on the world around us.

The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs. Our aim is to have an impact in everything we do, and to make a vital contribution to the UK economy by helping people, companies and institutions generate wealth. And we’re always on the look-out for smart, talented people who share our values.

Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a DevOps engineer to help define, implement, and support our rapidly changing tech infrastructure and delivery pipeline. We embrace change and need someone who is passionate about innovative technology, as well as understanding what good looks like and appreciates the importance of security throughout the SDLC.

• Implementing and designing CI and CD packages/pipelines to allow measurable improvements to deployment frequency, a faster time to market, and a lower failure rate of new releases
• Building and maintaining tools to automate application and infrastructure deployment, and to monitor operations
• Coordinating with other members of the DevOps, Development, Test, and Product Owner teams to enhance and optimize existing processes
• Providing guidance & support to the Dev and QA teams as needed
• Experience in development operations including deployment automation, automation scripting, configuration management & standardization
• You are very ‘hands-on’, and love getting your hands dirty in the detail
• You have a "can do" attitude and love to experiment, tinker and play around with new tech.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Deploying to Kubernetes clusters in the cloud
• CI/CD - At least 2 year’s experience managing Jenkins environments
• Experience managing Azure, Google Cloud
• Experience managing Linux environments
• Hands-on experience in Terraform and provisioning languages (e.g. Ansible)
• Experience monitoring cloud infrastructure and microservices (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Additional Information

Our Values and DNA  

At Octopus we don't just focus on what we do but also how we do it. Everyone shares our values of being straightforward, helpful and bold. And while these are the principles that guide us as an organisation, our DNA goes even further, by revealing our inner strengths: 

- We are loyal: we fully buy-in to the company's vision and believe in everything that Octopus stands for.

 - We are respectful: we live and breathe the Octopus values of being helpful, straightforward and bold. 

- We are resilient: we have an inner strength that means we never give in. 

- We are intellectually curious: we seek to understand how the world works and were always learning, adapting and improving. 

- We understand who our customers are: and because we know them really well, we always give them our very best.  

What we offer  

Octopus has built an exciting and inclusive high-performance culture where employees feel empowered. This means we welcome discussions around flexible working hours. We also understand the value of diversity, and we have a team dedicated to promoting gender, ethnic, socio-economic, LGBT and disability equality, to make sure we back up our words with actions. All Octopus employees are given the opportunity to develop new skills, aim higher and accelerate their careers. 

At Octopus we’re transforming the industries we operate in and improving the lives of millions of people. We’ve built market-leading positions in a number of specialist sectors, including smaller company financing, renewable energy, healthcare and property finance. We employ in excess of 750 people and manage more than £8.3 billion on behalf of more than 50,000 investors. Our products don’t just help real people solve real life problems, they also make a positive impact on the world around us.

The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs. Our aim is to have an impact in everything we do, and to make a vital contribution to the UK economy by helping people, companies and institutions generate wealth. And we’re always on the look-out for smart, talented people who share our values.

Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a DevOps engineer to help define, implement, and support our rapidly changing tech infrastructure and delivery pipeline. We embrace change and need someone who is passionate about innovative technology, as well as understanding what good looks like and appreciates the importance of security throughout the SDLC.

• Implementing and designing CI and CD packages/pipelines to allow measurable improvements to deployment frequency, a faster time to market, and a lower failure rate of new releases
• Building and maintaining tools to automate application and infrastructure deployment, and to monitor operations
• Coordinating with other members of the DevOps, Development, Test, and Product Owner teams to enhance and optimize existing processes
• Providing guidance & support to the Dev and QA teams as needed
• Experience in development operations including deployment automation, automation scripting, configuration management & standardization
• You are very ‘hands-on’, and love getting your hands dirty in the detail
• You have a "can do" attitude and love to experiment, tinker and play around with new tech.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Deploying to Kubernetes clusters in the cloud
• CI/CD - At least 2 year’s experience managing Jenkins environments
• Experience managing Azure, Google Cloud
• Experience managing Linux environments
• Hands-on experience in Terraform and provisioning languages (e.g. Ansible)
• Experience monitoring cloud infrastructure and microservices (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Additional Information

Our Values and DNA  

At Octopus we don't just focus on what we do but also how we do it. Everyone shares our values of being straightforward, helpful and bold. And while these are the principles that guide us as an organisation, our DNA goes even further, by revealing our inner strengths: 

- We are loyal: we fully buy-in to the company's vision and believe in everything that Octopus stands for.

 - We are respectful: we live and breathe the Octopus values of being helpful, straightforward and bold. 

- We are resilient: we have an inner strength that means we never give in. 

- We are intellectually curious: we seek to understand how the world works and were always learning, adapting and improving. 

- We understand who our customers are: and because we know them really well, we always give them our very best.  

What we offer  

Octopus has built an exciting and inclusive high-performance culture where employees feel empowered. This means we welcome discussions around flexible working hours. We also understand the value of diversity, and we have a team dedicated to promoting gender, ethnic, socio-economic, LGBT and disability equality, to make sure we back up our words with actions. All Octopus employees are given the opportunity to develop new skills, aim higher and accelerate their careers. 

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

The Portal team is a new product engineering organization created to develop and ship platforms and products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. Our products define new categories and advance Facebook's mission of empowering people to build community.The Portal Software Infrastructure team supports all software development for Portal, both Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and Facebook development based. As a Software Engineering Manager in Portal Infrastructure you will be leading a team of engineers at the heart of Portal’s engineering process, building software that empowers engineering teams to develop and deliver high quality products quickly. We are focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of developing software at scale without sacrificing stability, quality, velocity or code health. Our infrastructure teams ensure success by partnering with engineering teams and developing scalable tools and infrastructure that help engineers develop, test, debug, release and operate software products quickly. increasing the pace of product development and ensuring our products are thoroughly tested. We are champions for code health, testability, maintainability and best practices for development and testing.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and lead technical talent
• Be both highly technical and an effective people manager
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organisational level
• Participate in technical design
• Measure the impact of your team, define and influence strategy
• Develop and support processes to maintain uptime, SLAs and availability of critical platform components

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience of software engineering work experience, including hands-on technical management
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python, JavaScript, or PHP/Hack
• Experience building and managing technical teams, including performance management
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

The Portal team is a new product engineering organization created to develop and ship platforms and products at the intersection of hardware, software, and content. Our products define new categories and advance Facebook's mission of empowering people to build community.The Portal Software Infrastructure team supports all software development for Portal, both Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and Facebook development based. As a Software Engineering Manager in Portal Infrastructure you will be leading a team of engineers at the heart of Portal’s engineering process, building software that empowers engineering teams to develop and deliver high quality products quickly. We are focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of developing software at scale without sacrificing stability, quality, velocity or code health. Our infrastructure teams ensure success by partnering with engineering teams and developing scalable tools and infrastructure that help engineers develop, test, debug, release and operate software products quickly. increasing the pace of product development and ensuring our products are thoroughly tested. We are champions for code health, testability, maintainability and best practices for development and testing.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and lead technical talent
• Be both highly technical and an effective people manager
• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organisational level
• Participate in technical design
• Measure the impact of your team, define and influence strategy
• Develop and support processes to maintain uptime, SLAs and availability of critical platform components

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience of software engineering work experience, including hands-on technical management
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python, JavaScript, or PHP/Hack
• Experience building and managing technical teams, including performance management
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent

Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

The Orchard is a leading music distribution company operating in over 40 markets worldwide –  distributing music from independent artists including Ozuna, Skepta, Jorja Smith, John Prine, and Kelsea Ballerini. With cutting edge operations and an unparalleled global team, The Orchard partners with labels of all sizes to make their music and video available across hundreds of digital and physical retailers around the world. At The Orchard, the focus is to provide a comfortable, social and engaging environment to encourage productivity and creativity.

 The Orchard is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join our London office. 

Responsibilities:

• Automate build and deployment processes in a hybrid (AWS + proprietary) hosting environment for micro-services.
• Set and scale tools related to micro-services.
• Create and maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) environments to facilitate an Agile development process.
• Research, recommend and implement new technologies.
• Aid in efforts to increase our security presence
• Participate in ongoing Sony systems integration efforts to build and scale infrastructure of our delivery platform.

Qualifications: 

• Strong experience with system automation (e.g., Chef)
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins) and continuous deployment
• Experience with containers (e.g. docker) at scale in an HA environment.
• Understanding of Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, etc). Prior experience with Snowflake a big plus.
• Source control with Git.
• Security background preferred
• Solid Linux shell scripting (Bash, Ruby, Python) chops.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

The Orchard is a leading music distribution company operating in over 40 markets worldwide –  distributing music from independent artists including Ozuna, Skepta, Jorja Smith, John Prine, and Kelsea Ballerini. With cutting edge operations and an unparalleled global team, The Orchard partners with labels of all sizes to make their music and video available across hundreds of digital and physical retailers around the world. At The Orchard, the focus is to provide a comfortable, social and engaging environment to encourage productivity and creativity.

 The Orchard is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join our London office. 

Responsibilities:

• Automate build and deployment processes in a hybrid (AWS + proprietary) hosting environment for micro-services.
• Set and scale tools related to micro-services.
• Create and maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) environments to facilitate an Agile development process.
• Research, recommend and implement new technologies.
• Aid in efforts to increase our security presence
• Participate in ongoing Sony systems integration efforts to build and scale infrastructure of our delivery platform.

Qualifications: 

• Strong experience with system automation (e.g., Chef)
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins) and continuous deployment
• Experience with containers (e.g. docker) at scale in an HA environment.
• Understanding of Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, etc). Prior experience with Snowflake a big plus.
• Source control with Git.
• Security background preferred
• Solid Linux shell scripting (Bash, Ruby, Python) chops.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.