Senior DevOps Engineer

Paydock; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-growing fintech company as a DevOps Engineer, where you'll apply your software engineering expertise to optimize payment orchestration systems. This role offers the chance to tackle complex challenges while collaborating with global teams. You'll be responsible for implementing best practices in infrastructure management, CI/CD pipelines, and system security. Enjoy a dynamic culture that fosters innovation and flexibility, with competitive compensation and opportunities to work on cutting-edge products alongside leading financial institutions.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Flexible work arrangements

Collaborative culture

Dynamic work environment

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing infrastructure using IaC tools.
• Lead design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure payment orchestration is scalable, reliable, and efficient.
• Diagnose and resolve complex system issues promptly.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring and Logging

Incident Management

System Optimization

Security

Effective Communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

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A DevOps Engineer is responsible for applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations challenges, ensuring that the payment orchestration is scalable, reliable, and efficient. Their role encompasses various tasks from deploying software and ensuring system reliability, to optimizing the performance and scalability of the system.

Responsibilities (Must-Have Skills)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): A Senior Engineer should have extensive experience in designing and managing complex infrastructure using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation. They are responsible for setting best practices and ensuring that the infrastructure is highly scalable and maintainable.

Software Deployment: Senior Engineers lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines. They have a deep understanding of the software deployment process, ensuring that it is efficient and reliable, and may also mentor junior team members.

Monitoring and Logging: They are responsible for crafting a comprehensive and sophisticated monitoring and logging strategy. They have the expertise to select the most relevant metrics and set up advanced dashboards and alert mechanisms.

Incident Management: Senior Engineers take a lead role in diagnosing and resolving complex system issues. They also actively participate in post-mortem processes and drive improvements to prevent future incidents.

Optimisation: They have a deep understanding of system performance and are responsible for identifying and implementing high-impact optimizations. This may include refactoring code, tuning server configurations, and database optimization.

Security: Senior Engineers take ownership of the security of the platform, ensuring that it meets the highest standards. They are involved in regular security audits, collaborate with cybersecurity experts, and implement advanced security measures.

Effective Communications: Strong leadership communication for conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and providing clear guidance to team members.

On-Standby Responsiveness: Be on standby to respond promptly to issues, calls, and other system-related matters as they arise. Work closely with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues with agility.

Some Good To Have Skills:

• Advanced scripting and programming skills for automation.
• Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with configuration management tools
• Knowledge of database administration and optimisation.
• Experience with log management and analysis tools.
• Understanding of application and system-level security best practices.

Why Join Paydock?

• Be part of a fast-growing, dynamic fintech space, innovating payment solutions with global banks.
• Solve complex, innovative challenges in partnership with global teams
• Enjoy a flexible and dynamic culture at Paydock, where collaboration across teams creates a varied and engaging workday.
• Work closely with leading financial institutions on cutting-edge products.
• Opportunity to own the product marketing strategy for high-impact product launches.
• Competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements, and a collaborative culture.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

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