DevOps Specialist (DFABDD0)

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is partnering with a London-based technology company that builds data transparency and accountability tools for the investment management industry. You’ll join a cross-disciplinary team responsible for a robust multi-tenant cluster and own the automation across the stack, from OS installation to production deployment.

You’ll contribute to continuous deployment, data-centre affinity and workload management while mentoring peers and driving improvements in build, performance, security

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in Linux systems administration and automation.
• A track record of improving continuous integration and provisioning at scale.
• Belief in breaking long-term projects into small, frequent deliveries, and sharing knowledge with peers.

Responsibilities

• Own automation across the full stack, from OS installation through UI and production deployment.
• Participate in daily scrum and weekly releases.
• Extend automation to cover new capabilities and improve build, performance, security, and monitoring.

Skills

Linux administration

CI/CD at scale

Continuous improvement

Knowledge sharing

Tools

Puppet

Kickstart

RPM

Bash

Ruby

Python

Java

Clojure

Kerberos

SELinux

LDAP

HDFS

Flink

Kafka

Docker

KVM

YARN

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

Referment is working with a London-based technology company that builds data transparency and accountability tools for the investment management industry. Its platform aggregates and validates cost and holdings data from across the investment supply chain, serving pension funds, asset managers and other service providers. The DevOps team sits with the core application team and runs the multi-tenant cluster that serves both production customers and in-office developers.

The Role

You’ll join a cross-disciplinary team responsible for a robust multi-tenant cluster, participating in the daily scrum and weekly releases. The team’s automation covers the whole stack, from OS installation through UI and regression testing to production deployment, and you’ll help extend it further. You’ll work on new capabilities including continuous deployment, data-centre affinity and workload management, and contribute to improvements in build, performance, security, operating systems, networking and monitoring. The team breaks long-term projects into small deliveries to achieve rapid change, and expects you to be an expert in at least one of these disciplines and able to bring others along.

What We're Looking For

• Strong grounding in Linux systems administration and automation
• Expertise in at least one area such as build, performance, security, networking, storage or monitoring
• A track record of improving continuous integration and provisioning at scale
• Belief in breaking long-term projects into small, frequent deliveriesWillingness to share knowledge with peers inside and outside the team

Technologies

• OS: Red Hat Linux, bare metal and virtual machines
• Provisioning: Puppet, Kickstart, RPM
• Languages: Bash, Ruby, Python, Java, Clojure
• Security: Kerberos, SELinux, LDAP
• Big data: HDFS, Flink, Kafka
• Containers: Docker, KVM
• Schedulers: YARN, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: Jenkins

This could suit a senior DevOps or platform engineer from a Linux-heavy, high-throughput environment who wants ownership of automation across the full stack.

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