Senior DevOps Engineer

Abound; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the fintech sector is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure and CI/CD processes. You will leverage your extensive AWS expertise to provision infrastructure, refine deployment pipelines, and ensure robust security measures for customer data. The role offers a hybrid work environment, equity options, and various employee benefits including a wellness budget and paid sabbaticals. Join a mission-driven team dedicated to making affordable loans accessible to more people.

Benefits

Equity

25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays

2 paid volunteering days

One month paid sabbatical after 4 years

Employee loan

Free gym membership

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Team wellness budget

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in DevOps or cloud-infrastructure roles.
• Expertise in AWS services and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Responsibilities

• Provisioning infrastructure for new clients and partnerships.
• Refining CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed.
• Optimising AWS costs and system architecture.

Skills

AWS

Python

Git

CI/CD

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GitLab

Job description

About the role

We’re on a mission to make affordable loans available to more people. Using the power of Open Banking, we have built state-of-the-art technology that allows us to look beyond traditional credit scores and offer fairer credit to people ignored by traditional lenders.

We have two parts of our business. On the consumer side, we have Abound. Abound has proven that our approach works at scale, with over £650 million lent to-date. While other lenders only look at your credit score, we use Open Banking to look at the full picture – what you earn, how you spend, and what’s left at the end.

On the B2B side, we have Render. Render is our award-winning software-as-a-service platform that allows Abound to make better, less risky lending decisions. And less risky decisions mean we can offer customers better rates than they can usually find elsewhere. We’re taking Render global so that more companies, from high-street banks to other fintechs, can offer affordable credit to their customers.

Technologies we use: AWS (ECS, RDS, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch), AWS CloudFormation, CDK, CDK for Terraform, Docker, GitLab, Python, NewRelic

Who you are:

• Seven or more years professional experience in a DevOps, SRE, or cloud-infrastructure-focused role

• Deep expertise in AWS services, including ECS, RDS, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch
  Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK, Terraform, or AWS CloudFormation

• Professional experience using Python (or a similar language) for scripting and building tooling

• Proficiency in git for Version control

• Solid understanding of CI/CD best practices

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Effective communication and collaboration skills

• Previous experience as software engineer would be an advantage

What you'll be doing :

• Helping provision the infrastructure to launch new clients and partnerships

• Refining our CI/CD pipelines to keep our time-to-change under 30 minutes

• Onboarding 3rd-party security services and tooling to help keep our customers and their data safe

• Defining our monitoring and alerting rules using infrastructure-as-code tooling

• Optimising AWS costs by profiling and adapting the system architecture

• Assisting with investigating production incidents

What we offer

• Everyone owns a piece of the company - equity

• Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office

• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays

• 2 paid volunteering days per year

• One month paid sabbatical after 4 years

• Employee loan

• Free gym membership

• Save up to 60% on an electric vehicle through our salary sacrifice scheme with Loveelectric

• Team wellness budget to be active together - set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering