Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary: £80-90k
Location: Central London
Technology Involved: DevOps, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Chef, Puppet, Ansible,
The Client:
One of the most successful fintech companies in the UK are going from strength to strength and looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a well-established team of world class developers.
Being one of the biggest online consumer lenders in the UK and one of the highest rated lenders online this is a great opportunity to join an exciting company and help grow even further.
Very dynamic company with a diverse workforce and a real passion for what they do and they have some very interesting new products in the pipeline that you would have a big impact on.
They offer catered lunches, great team events and a working holiday abroad just to name a few of the great benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Plan for the maintainability of the infrastructure and foresee weaknesses in the setup
- Administer and support our 24/7 AWS based Docker infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, resilient and performant
- Work with our engineers to build and maintain effective CI pipelines and deployment processes
- Design and build the infrastructure to support our existing and upcoming financial products
- Proactively audit the security of our systems
- Document infrastructure setup making it replicable
- Identify new technologies where appropriate to improve the automation
Qualities that set you apart:
- You believe you can automate anything and everything with code
- You have high standards in everything you do with a high attention to detail
- You enjoy working in teams and helping the people around you succeed
- You thrive on being on the front lines of an outage; you dive in, take ownership, and make a plan to fix the root cause
- You embrace change
Requirements:
- Experience with Docker. We use Docker for most of our systems.
- Experience with AWS services
- Hands-on experience administering a 24/7 high profile infrastructure
- Ability to quickly triage problems under pressure, determine root cause, and drive issues to completion
- Comfortable with shell scripting and creating Docker configuration
- Comfortable with Git, creating pull-requests and peer-review
- Reasonable experience of networks, security, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components
- Excellent verbal and written communication
Extra bonus points:
- BSc or MSc in Computer Science or relevant educational experience commensurate to a bachelor's
- Experience with programming languages such as PHP, Python, and JavaScript
- Experience with Ansible
To be considered: Please apply by either clicking online or emailing me a copy of your most up to date CV to . For further details on the job specification, please feel free to either drop me an email, give me a call on By applying for this role you consent for your profile to be sent to the client for consideration.