At R3 our vision is a world where value moves freely, and business is done safely. Our mission is to enable an open, trusted, and enduring digital economy. We are a scale up with a startup’s grit. We encourage a workforce where no idea is too small, and no two days are the same.
The DevOps Engineer is a pivotal role in the design, implementation and operation of the services R3 offers to its customers. Reporting to the Infrastructure and Release team manager, you will be part of a delivery team with the exciting objective of building, delivering and maintaining infrastructure that will host R3’s main customer services. This is a challenging role which will include working alongside Software Engineers within R3 to deliver both internal and customer facing services.
You will have a strong technical background in financial services, telecoms or critical infrastructure service provider. You embrace the DevOps Culture. Working with distributed teams and carrying out peer code reviews is second nature.
You have a “go getter attitude” by taking proactive approach into fixing issues that appear from continuous improvement changes or you detect them by carrying out day to day tasks.
You believe strongly in delivering experiences, not just lines of code. You are focused on the end result for the customer, with a service-led approach, and have a strong background in operating, maintaining and improving services to the highest possible standards.
Responsibilities:
- Keep repositories up to date with software releases within the DevOps software tooling currently used. As well as innovating and driving for changes that will benefit the entire team.
- Collaboration across different teams.
- Driving for infrastructural improvements that can help improve high availability and scalability of existing and new service offerings.
- Owning and advocating the approach of automation first.
- Delivering on high quality work that meet customer requirements on existing services for other Production department teams such as Business operations, Security. While still being able to drive for improvements of the current process in place.
- Responsible for pushing for changes both in Development and Operations that are essential and necessary to be running a high standard Managed Service.
- Educate other team members both on simple and complex operational and administrative tasks.
Qualifications (the must-haves):
- First and foremost, we want you to love what you do. You’ll need to be a DevOps evangelist within R3 and the community of R3 products, both current and future.
- You’ll have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a DevOps-type role. We’d love to see evidence of other experience too, you might have been a sysadmin, network operations person, or worked in support in previous roles.
- We believe that we work better as a team. You’ll be working in a diverse team of people with a variety of skills and backgrounds, a high level of emotional intelligence will be assumed. People skills are essential.
- You’ll need excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- We operate under Infra-as-Code, which means you are able to pick up and understand code changes on a daily basis.
- Strong experience in DevOps Tools like Terraform, Ansible, Helm to automate Infrastructure.
- You’ll need working experience with at least one public cloud provider.
- You’ll have solid Linux experience. You’ll need to have been deploying infrastructure as code in your previous role (such as Terraform and Ansible) and used automated provisioning and configuration management tools.
- Working knowledge of at least one contemporary scripting language is essential to be able to automate things.
- You must demonstrate proven experience in software development tasks. Ideally a background in Kotlin, Java, or other JVM-based languages are required for the role.
Qualifications (the nice to haves):
- Exposure to Kubernetes clusters in production systems/services would be a plus.
- Exposure to Cloud Native Landscape software.
- An engineering or science degree would be great, but appropriate career experience is just as important. Be prepared to tell us all about that experience.
R3 is a leading enterprise technology firm specialising in digital solutions for regulated financial markets. Our technology enables financial markets to operate with greater efficiency, transparency and enhanced connectivity. Our focus is on progressing markets and fostering an open, trusted and enduring digital economy.
R3ers center around our core values – Collaborative, Ownership, Bold and Customer First – as a result our flagship DLT platform, Corda, and R3 Digital Markets product suite is trusted by the world’s leading financial market infrastructures (FMIs), exchanges, central banks and commercial banks.
R3 is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are a diverse and inclusive team that supports all ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, origins, disability and veteran status and cultures. At R3, we’re committed to fostering an environment where individuality–not conformity–is embraced and valued because we believe our collective differences are what make us better together. For more information, visit www.r3.com or connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
If you don’t meet all of the above criteria, but you think you’d be a great addition to R3, send us your CV/resume. We’re always interested in meeting bold, collaborative people who are excited to work with us.
