DevOps Engineer

Calastone; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London is seeking a DevOps engineer to enhance and maintain CI/CD systems. This role involves working closely with Engineering teams to modernize infrastructures using Kubernetes, Terraform, and other tools. The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology and strong collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing Kubernetes deployments and CI/CD processes.
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies, especially Azure.
• Good communication skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain DevOps processes on agile teams.
• Maintain Continuous Integration and Delivery systems.
• Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams.

Skills

Kubernetes application deployments

Terraform

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Bash scripting

Azure Cloud environment

Chef

Agile development practices

Tools

DataDog

Linux Servers

python

Job description

Role Purpose

In this role you will enhance and maintain new and existing DevOps process and culture on Calastone's agile work-stream teams. Partnering with our Engineering and Infrastructure teams, you will help build systems and test automation infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the Continuous Integration and Delivery systems and their usage in the development and infrastructure teams.
• Maintain and enhance existing Helm charts and Chef cookbooks
• Become part of the Development Workstreams alongside Development, Infrastructure, Security and Database specialists

Knowledge & Skills

Crucial - The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate a commercial appreciation of:

• Kubernetes application deployments and troubleshooting.
• Terraform or other IaC tools for deploying to the cloud
• Experience and understanding of GitHub Actions.
• PowerShell or Bash - Scripting experience is essential.
• Cloud environment experience Azure - Essential
• Configuration Management tooling experience: Chef - Puppet or Ansible.
• Agile development practices.

Advantageous - The ideal candidate would have some level of knowledge in one or more of the following:

• Management and Support of Monitoring tools, DataDog.
• Test Driven Development - Unit testing frameworks, mocking frameworks, and patterns for testability.
• Configuration and management of Linux Servers
• Version control systems such as git
• Bash or Python

Person Specification

You are someone who has a passion for good technology, an attention to detail, and excellent communication skills. We take team dynamics seriously so, like us, you thrive on team alliance. We view ourselves as enablers for the business and engineering teams, so you ought to be able to contextualise your work for less technical members of the organisation. We need your help to modernise the funds industry, bridging the gap between finance and modern technology to create faster and more efficient service for the benefit of the end investor.

Weekend Working and On Call

Your normal hours of work will be from 9.00 am to 5.30 pm, with one hour for lunch each day, to be taken between 12.00 pm and 2.00 pm - four weekdays and one weekend day (every third week). You may be required to work such additional hours as may be necessary to properly perform your duties, but you will receive no additional remuneration for additional hours worked.

The team is required to provide out-of-hours on-call support to the Operations team on a rotational basis, typically once every 3 to 4 weeks. Participation in the on-call rota will be expected upon successful completion of probation and once you have been assessed as suitably skilled to fulfil this responsibility.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

The company is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive, contribute their best and achieve their full potential. We ensure that all recruitment, promotion, and reward decisions are capability-based without regard to protected characteristics. We want you to perform at your best in the recruitment process; if you require any reasonable adjustments for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know.