DevOps Engineer

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 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 A strong focus on Docker/Kubernetes/IstioDevOps tooling/automation written with Bash/Python/Groovy/Jenkins/GolangProvisioning software/frameworks (Elasticsearch/Spark/Hadoop/PostgreSQL)Infrastructure Management - CasC, IasC (Ansible, Terraform, Packer)Log and metric aggregation with Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertmanagerPublic 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 problemsTake a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider systemIn-depth exposure to a handful of the key parts of our tech stack listed aboveExperience with programming/scripting/automationGood appreciation for information security principalsExperience 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 engineersExperience with software build and release engineering 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. 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.