DevOps Engineer

Enigmatic Smile

Glasgow

11 months ago

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As a DevOps engineer, you’ll be responsible for scaling our infrastructure and supporting the deployment of applications into various environments.

Security is an important requirement for Enigmatic Smile, so adherence to our PCI and ISO policies is a must for all requests and actions. You will work closely with our Cyber Security Manager to ensure our infrastructure remains secure.

What do we do?

Enigmatic Smile is a fintech scale-up. We’re a distributed team with a base in Glasgow, Scotland. Our customers are worldwide, and each country has different requirements we support through our platform. We are a visionary company looking to enable consumers, retailers, rewards publishers and banks around the world to improve customer experience.

Who are we looking for?

You will know your space and be confident in the way you complete your work, but know where your limitations are and collaborate with the wider team when needed. You like to have fun at work and have confidence that things you work on will “just work”; happy to jump in to help when things don’t go to plan, because that happens sometimes in technology.

Our way of working

We're a distributed team, with the primary engineering teams in UK and Portugal. Our wider team are on most continents of the world. Your day to day team will be based in a European timezone (GMT +/- 2h). Our working language is English.

This role is primarily remote, with occassional travel/office visits.

Requirements

Objectives of this role

Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure
Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
Building infrastructure in AWS (we use a range of technologies such as Kafka, EKS, and Redshift, CloudWatch).
Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats, including adherence to policies supporting PCI DSS Level 1 and ISO27001
Identifying technical problems and implementing software updates and fixes
Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Planning projects and being involved in project management decisions

Responsibilities

Deploy updates and fixes and provide Level 2 technical support
Build tools to reduce the occurrence of errors and improve customer experience
Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems (data)
Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues
Develop scripts to automate visualisation (management tools such as Sentry and Grafana)
Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Required skills and qualifications

Experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar software engineering role
A strong understanding of Linux and containerisation, including transition to containers from traditional configurations
Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows
Good knowledge of common development languages and tools
Working knowledge of databases, both NoSQL/Document and SQL
Problem-solving attitude
Collaborative team spirit
Security is a top focus

Skills needed by this team

AWS (Terraform)
Linux (hardening, ideally)

Benefits

As a scaling company, our benefits are evolving. As a minimum, you can expect:

Fun work trips periodically, including meetups and events across UK and Europe.
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (based on the country you live in)
Discretionary Bonus
Pension contributions
Training and certifications
Medical cover
Access to online training programmes

Benefits presently under review:

Enhanced pension contributions

Salary range: £50-60k

Your line manager is based in Northern Ireland, with colleagues in Portugal and across the UK (primarily Scotland).

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