Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer in London

London Full-Time No working from home possible
Quantexa Limited

What will you be doing?

You’ll be joining one of our DevOps teams in our R&D department working on the Quantexa Cloud Platform and accompanying solutions. The platform is comprised of a landscape of low maintenance, on-demand, and highly secure environments. Our environments host our software for our customers and partners to use; they also service a variety of internal use cases including underpinning the work of our R&D teams to develop Quantexa Platform software.

You’ll be heavily involved with our cloud-based technical infrastructure, with responsibilities surrounding improving the availability and resilience of our platform, improving its usability and security, ensuring we stay at the forefront of technical innovation, and reducing toil across our estate.

You will also work alongside our software engineering teams to leverage DevOps techniques to support our software release activities and work on unique cloud-based product offerings for our customers to use in their own DevOps processes on their own Cloud estate.

Our tech stack

  • Docker/Kubernetes/Istio
  • DevOps tooling/automation written with Bash/Python/Groovy/Jenkins/Golang
  • Provisioning software/frameworks (Elasticsearch/Spark/Hadoop/PostgreSQL)
  • Infrastructure Management - CasC, IasC (Ansible, Terraform, Packer)
  • Log and metric aggregation with Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
  • Public Cloud, primarily GCP, but also AWS and Azure

Requirements

What do I need to have?

  • Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems
  • Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system
  • In-depth exposure to a handful of the key parts of our tech stack listed above
  • Experience with programming/scripting/automation
  • Good appreciation for information security principals
  • Experience with infrastructure management and general Linux administration

Experience in the following would be beneficial:

  • Experience managing microservice based architectures (scaling, upgrading, traffic management, deployment strategies)
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers
  • Experience with software build and release engineering

Our perks and quirks.

  • Competitive salary & Company bonus
  • 25 days annual leave (with the option of buying up to 5 days, and rolling over up to 10), plus national holidays + your birthday off!
  • Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%)
  • Private Healthcare, including dental & optic cover
  • Life Insurance and Income Protection
  • Regularly benchmarked salary rates
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
  • Well-being days
  • Volunteer Day off
  • Work from Home Equipment
  • Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes
  • Free Subscription to a meditation, relaxation and sleep app
  • Continuous Training and Development
  • Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy
  • Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials

It’s all about you.

We want you to feel welcome, valued, and respected - because it’s your individuality and passion that make you Q. We see that, and we celebrate it. That’s why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know - we’re happy to assist.

No matter your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, or abilities—whoever you are—if you're a passionate, curious, and caring human eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.

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Quantexa Limited

Contact Details:

Quantexa Limited Recruitment Team