Staff DevOps Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

As the Staff DevOps Engineer, you will be a key player on the DevOps team servicing Loadsure’s product suite through building, testing and maintaining the critical infrastructure and tools allowing for the rapid development and release of software.

Primarily responsible for simplifying the development process of software to achieve Loadsure’s main engineering goals as the organisation continues to scale. The position will proactively work alongside the insurance and product teams to develop a successful user interface for our network of direct clients and brokers. You will be highly organised and comfortable building relationships and working with all levels of the firm. Stakeholder management and communication will be vital to the success of the role.

This position requires a self-driven, high-energy, professional who’s passionate about disrupting an industry and wants to be rewarded for their performance and contributions.

We believe that with a growth mindset, tech-first innovation, and focused execution, anything is possible. We value others’ insights and ideas to build a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and lighthearted environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain a resilient, secure, and efficient immutable infrastructure to meet established business and operational goals
• Automate deployment, monitoring, management, and incident response by building infrastructure as a code using Terraform
• Manage and create CI/CD pipelines, configuration, and automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
• Write and maintain runbooks for knowledge-driven automated processes
• Manage and communicate capacity planning based on performance, usage, and utilization stats
• Ensure system availability and business continuity by implementing redundant servers/services
• Proactively research and propose the use of new concepts, processes, technologies, and tools
• Manage cross-functional requirements working with Engineering, Product, Services, and other departments
• Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures
• Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance

Skills and Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience as a Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer or similar Engineering role
• 8+ years experience in managing DevOps/Infrastructure environments
• Experience maintaining production systems on GCP, AWS and/or Azure
• Experience using infrastructure as code software such as Terraform
• Experience in continuous integration practices & tools such as GitHub Actions, etc.
• Experience in observability implementations using tools such as DataDog
• Analytical and detail-oriented, aligned to the DORA principles
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Comfortable dealing with internal and external senior representatives
• Self-starter and takes initiative
• Effective listening, strong verbal and written communications skills
• Must have outstanding interpersonal and problem solving skills
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing technical environment
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience in developing business critical applications
• Experience in developing and operating large-scale cloud-based distributed applications
• Experience of the compliance environment such as SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001:2022
• The ability to continuously improve infrastructure “whilst in flight” and not only support greenfield solutions
• Transportation or insurance industry experience
• Enthusiastic about emerging technology and Insurtech

About Us

We’ve combined groundbreaking AI and industry expertise to create a service that goes beyond conventional cargo insurance. This is holistic freight protection.

With trailblazing end-to-end InsurTech, our mission is simple: empower brokers to better serve the freight community, maximizing profits and minimizing losses for all.

At Loadsure, we celebrate the spirit of individuals and empower them to grow. Fostering a culture of personal freedom, mutual respect, and collaboration, we enable the professional success of each person, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religious belief, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, marital status, or disability. Understanding, communication, respect among all people: This is how we’re nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace in which everyone can thrive.

Why work for Loadsure?

• Fantastic company stock options
• Remote working with great flexibility
• 25 annual leave days, in addition to our recognised national holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
• Birthday day off
• Subsidised gym/wellbeing membership
• Strong healthcare coverage for employees and their families
• A culture of work-life balance
• A community that gives back
• Engaging and collaborative work environment
• An exciting opportunity to work with a talented team that’s passionate about what they do and believes in their product and people