Quantexa is hiring a

Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Full-Time

What we’re all about.

It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we can go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team.      

If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.


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 lowmaintenance, 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

  • A strong focus on 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

Benefits

Why join Quantexa?

We know that just having an excellent glass door rating isn’t enough, so we’ve put together a competitive package as a way of saying thank you for all your hard work and dedication.

We offer:

  • Competitive salary 💰
  • Company bonus
  • Private healthcare, Life Insurance & Income Protection
  • Cycle Scheme and TechScheme
  • Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep 🧘‍♀️
  • Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)
  • 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off! 🌴
  • Ongoing personal development
  • Great WeWork Office Space & Company wide socials

Our mission

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It's all about you

Quantexa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment, where everyone feels welcome, valued, and respected. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital, disability, or veteran status. Whoever you are, if you’re a curious, caring, and authentic human being who wants to help push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.

Internal pay equity across departments is crucial to our global compensation philosophy. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, education, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.

Quantexa is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our talent acquisition processes. If you require support, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team.

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