Remote. Requires core hours compatible with the UK timezone, and capacity to fly to London for a few days 6x/year (current meetup schedule).

 

Our current infrastructure

• Multiple on-premise clusters for production systems


• Multiple clusters for development and testing


• VMs and dedicated servers


• Docker EE for orchestration and cluster management


• Relatively large PostgreSQL installations (including live replicas)


• Monitoring and alerting based on hierarchical Prometheus installations and Grafana


• Automated backups and manual disaster recovery plans/rehearsals

We need your help with

• Improving performance and horizontal and vertical scalability


• Further automation of our disaster recovery plans and rehearsals


• Understanding, finding and addressing security issues


• Evolving monitoring and alerting to gather more insight and service robustness


• Continuously reducing friction in the software/system lifecycle (frequent deployments, upgrades at different levels)


• Help evaluating our options when scaling up our system. Should we utilize public clouds? Go hyperconverged?

Requirements

We are looking for you if you

• are a software engineer at heart who can write code well


• know your limits and can ask for help – the scope of this position is very wide and we don't expect you to be an expert in everything (or even in most things)


• are looking constantly for opportunities for automation


• understand the devops culture


• have wide range of interests in technology – we are not a very large firm (yet), therefore quick learning and ability to pick up new information is important


• are better than average in estimation (nobody is actually good at it; we know that)


• enjoy and are good at finding and correcting problems you have not encountered in the past


• run Linux on one  of the computers you have at home


• have more than two years of experience


• are hungry for new challenges