DevOps Engineer

Sidetrade; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Calling all DevOps enthusiasts! Join us at Sidetrade, the leading global SaaS provider recognized by Gartner. (https://go.sidetrade.com/GartnerMagicQuadrant22.ht...)

Indulge your passion for high-availability software and performance enhancement as part of our dynamic team. Embrace the challenge, embrace the excitement – become a Data Engineer and thrive! Shape the future of AI-powered Order-to-Cash at Sidetrade today. Join us in creating innovative solutions that redefine the industry!

About Sidetrade and its amazing R&D team

Sidetrade is a fast-growing international software company that is transforming the Order-to-Cash process for global enterprises. Its AI-powered SaaS platform digitizes the financial customer journey, empowering CFOs to secure and accelerate cash flow generation. Recognized as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for two consecutive years, Sidetrade fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity from its headquarters in Europe and North America.

The R&D team comprises experienced tech professionals who share a deep passion for technology. Together, they are dedicated to developing cutting-edge software solutions that drive the transformation of our customers' work processes. We provide comprehensive training, coaching, resources, and mentorship to empower every team member's growth and nurture their success.

What you will be doing:

• Day to day duties include the overall responsibility of CI/CD pipelines, availability and reliability of various platforms and support small multi-disciplined squads to deliver enhancements and new features of our product.
• Generally, this role will be writing code to automate processes, platform management, investigating issues and supporting their resolution.
• You will need to have a passion for using software development techniques and experience to diagnose & solve operational problems (application, architectural & infrastructure).
• As a member of the DevOps team, this role requires someone to be passionate about their work, researching the latest tools and techniques, analyzing if they would be of benefit to the company and streamlining the process and taking control of implementing this.
• You’ll be someone with a passion for proper engineering practice as you will be expected to get on board with the rest of the group efforts in terms of high-availability software (latency, performance and capacity).
• You'll be a positive and friendly individual, who’s keen to learn new skills and quickly be able to provide your input and be an asset on this team.
• We value people with a keen sense of curiosity that can pick up knowledge by themselves and share this newly acquired knowledge.

What we are looking for:

• Experience with deployment tools such as Ansible / Octopus.
• Use of modern CI/CD tools for delivery and automation (Azure DevOps, GitLab, ...)
• Solid sysadmin and network capabilities (TCP, firewall, reverse proxy, load balancer, web containers such as IIS and nginx).
• Strong knowledge of system administration across multiple OS (especially Windows / Linux) - Knowledge of database concepts with experience of PostgreSQL, Oracle & ElasticSearch is an advantage.
• Familiarity with virtualization & containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Hyper-V, ...).
• Engineering skills using one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, shell script (Linux/Powershell).
• Experience of monitoring, logging and alerting stacks or APMs such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Solarwinds, Prometheus, Grafana, TICK, ELK.
• Exposure to incident response processes and scenarios.
• Solid verbal and written/diagrammatical communication skills.
• Experience of quality assurance techniques such as load/stress/chaos testing - Proven experience of collaborating with wider stakeholders such as developers, QA, IT to deliver quality solutions to production environments.

At Sidetrade, we cultivate a multicultural environment that fuels innovation. With over 22 nationalities represented, we strongly value diversity, gender equality, inclusivity, and fairness. As an equal opportunity employer, we reject all forms of discrimination and harassment. Your unique contributions are celebrated, driving collective success in our inclusive workplace.

Discover more on www.sidetrade.com

Agencies

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