DevOps Engineer

Blackbullion is an award-winning financial technology company on a mission to empower young people towards a better financial future. Our ecosystem, deployed across dozens of universities, colleges and companies is made up of our financial education learning platform, Funds Management System and our recently launched app. We are proudly the Europas hottest European EdTech startup, the Social Mobility Small business of the year 2024 and a regular in the Most Innovative Fintech top 50 lists.

Role overview

As the sole dev ops engineer at Blackbullion, you will have a significant impact on shaping our infrastructure and development processes. You will be responsible for building and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, and automating workflows to ensure seamless software delivery. Given our small team, you’ll be wearing multiple hats to ensure our systems are scalable, secure, and reliable.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Management and Monitoring: maintaining our existing AWS-based infrastructure
• System Monitoring and Incident Response: ensuring observability across all of Blackbullion’s products and swiftly addressing issues
• Security and Compliance: building security into every component of our infrastructure and ensuring compliance with security standards across our stack
• Performance Optimisation: identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks in products and infrastructure
• Cost Optimisation: monitoring infrastructure costs and making sensible decisions when it comes to balancing performance and price

Other responsibilities

• Keeping up to date with industry trends, tools and best practices
• Regularly testing our backup and recovery processes
• Identifying key areas for automation and working with the development team to introduce tooling where necessary

Requirements

We’re looking for a devops engineer with at least 4 years of experience building, scaling and maintaining cloud infrastructure. We’re also looking for someone with engineering experience with a language like Python or Typescript.

Product team experience is also a bonus.

Benefits

Compensation 💰

We offer competitive salaries and regularly benchmark the role against other companies. We review salaries annually to ensure we continue to pay fairly.

Options 📈

Every team member is granted options: we want everyone to “have skin in our game” and be part of our success.

Learning & Development 📚

We have a training budget set aside for every member of staff and we will do our best to contribute to anything you want to learn – whether through courses, books or more formal learning.

Flexible Working ⏳

You’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work.

Time Off 🏖️

32 days of holiday (incl. bank holidays) plus your birthday off too – we strongly believe in recharging and re-energising regularly.

Equipment 💻

We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so you’ll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home.

Cycle to Work Scheme 🚴‍♀️

Save up to 40% on a new bike and/or equipment.