Sr DevOps Engineer in Bracknell

At Xe, we live currencies. We provide a comprehensive range of currency services and products, including our Currency Converter, Market Analysis, Currency Data API and quick, easy, secure Money Transfers for individuals and businesses. We leverage technology to deliver these services through our website, mobile app and by phone. Last year, we helped over 300 million people access information about the currencies that matter to them and over 225,000 people used us to send money overseas.

We are currently looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing team who will be responsible for building and transforming our technology estate. Working closely with Development and Security you will create functional systems that will improve the experience of millions of customers. Your challenges include building and deploying products, improving ways to monitor and identify production issues, and implementing integrations that meet customer needs. You will be providing experience, guidance, and support to multiple development teams within the UK and across the globe. So if you have a solid background in building modern systems we’d like to meet you.

OUR PRINCIPLES

• AMBITION - We dream big, try things out and always ask “why not?” and “what if?” We’re ambitious in our thinking and our delivery.
• RESPONSIBILITY - We get involved, bring our perspective, and are always open to new ideas. We take personal responsibility.
• COMMUNITY - We value a sense of belonging, trusting each other and encouraging authenticity. We contribute to our community.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and run applications in production that are hosted in AWS, VMware, Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with development and IT Operations teams to support a continuous delivery model.
• Immediately start to transform and grow our existing platforms and services.
• Create systems to enable a self-service development environment.
• Demonstrate a high performing 'DevOps' culture.
• Deliver zero-downtime deployments and build highly available systems.

Position Requirements

• Strong experience with implementing software delivery pipelines.
• Configuration management and IaC. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar.
• Experience with monitoring systems, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, Icinga2, APM.
• DevOps - Kubernetes, Github, Artifactory, ElasticSearch, Docker, AWS ECS/EKS.
• Hosting services - AWS, VMware, etc.
• Understanding of Linux, Windows servers, and networking.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Desirable: experience running large scale web applications and APIs in production.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Discretionary Bonus.
• 23 days annual leave increasing with each year of service (capped at 28 days).
• Paid day off for your Birthday.
• 4% employer pension contribution.
• Discounted Euronet Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Life Cover, Income Protections Scheme & Critical Illness cover.
• Healthcare.
• Plumm Mental Health and Wellbeing.
• Volunteering day for a charity of your choice.

We want Xe to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organization that encourages diversity in all respects.

At Xe we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on recruitment@xe.com.

The position responsibilities outlined above are intended to define the general contents and requirements to perform this job. It is not to be taken as a complete statement of responsibilities or requirements. This job description does not restrict the Company’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job as needed.