Platform Engineer

Deblock; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in the UK seeks a DevOps Engineer to work within an engineering team, focusing on building and managing automation in GCP cloud services. Candidates must have over 5 years of DevOps experience, strong automation skills, and a good understanding of security protocols. This role offers a competitive salary, stock options, and flexible remote working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Stock options

Private dental and health insurance

30 days of paid holidays

Flexible remote work

Ability to work abroad for 4 months a year

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
• Experience in configuring monitoring and alerting of production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and support automation in our GCP cloud services.
• Script, test, and deploy new versions of environments.
• Develop performance monitoring and security monitoring tools.

Skills

DevOps experience

Kubernetes/Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Networking concepts

Automation skills

Security knowledge

Team collaboration

Education

GCP Certification

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be directly working with the engineering team. In this fast pace environment, you’ll be given complex problems to solve. You are obsessed with our good architecture, efficiency, and resilience and want nothing but the best product for our customers.

Your speed, ability to deliver, and capacity to come up with the most elegant solutions will make you one of the pillars of our engineering team.

We want to revolutionize the FinTech industry. Create a new paradigm. And we need the best minds to do it 🧠 🚀

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps
• Experience in Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Kubernetes/Docker, Terraform, HTTP Servers, CI/CD as well as strong automation skills, including experience creating and supporting test environments and automated testing tools
• A solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, DNS, or similar) & expertise with software build tools (GitHub, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience in configuring monitoring and alerting of production systems
• Good understanding of the security when it comes to the systems that work with money and crypto, knowledge of the common attack vectors and ways to mitigate them/reduce the impact (zero trust policy)
• Team players: Credit the team & Blame no-one

What will make you stand out

• GCP Certification
• Experience with Crypto, Payments, and Fintech infrastructures
• Experience working in the bank or fintech

What you’ll be working on

• Be responsible for helping build, manage, and support in automation, teamwork, continuous delivery etc. in our GCP cloud services
• Build and manage instances and services in the public cloud for Development, QA, and Production environments
• Script, test, and deploy new versions of environments and target infrastructures
• Develop tools and services such as performance monitoring, security monitoring, deployment/configuration, continuous integration/build servers, and cloud resource creation scripts

What you’ll get

• Competitive salary + stock options
• Private dental + health insurance
• The best tech for your job
• 30 days of paid holidays (excl. bank holidays)
• Option to work 100% remotely or come to the office - your choice!
• Ability to work abroad for 4 months a year