Devops Engineer

Title:DevOps Engineer
Location: Hybrid - Waterloo, London, UK
About iProov:
iProov is the world leader in face biometric verification. We are on a mission to make the Internet a safer place for businesses and consumers and work with fantastic customers across a number of industry sectors - organisations using our technology include the US Department of Homeland Security, the UK Home Office, the NHS, Eurostar, the Australian government, the Singapore government, UBS and many more.
Diversity at iProov is about reflecting the customers we serve, holding the principles of equality and inclusion at the heart of everything we do and all that we stand for, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together. We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our purpose.
Reporting to the Head of Technical Operations you will be based out of our UK location and work across a range of functions from ongoing support of established practices, to developing new solutions aligned to internal development requirements, as well as upscaling and remodeling current systems.
How you’ll make an impact:
As part of a rapidly expanding and dynamic organization which has attained recognition as the world leader in online biometric security you will play a key role in driving the operational functional capacity required to meet the needs of our expanding worldwide customer base and evolving technological solutions.
Reporting to the Head of Technical Operations, you will bring a range of skills to augment the current team responsible for platform development and operations. The company prides itself on innovation aligned to customer requirements and you will be a dynamic individual not afraid to deal with evolving demands and able to provide input, ideas, and deep technical understanding to a containerised cloud-based platform and extended environment.
You will be a focused individual capable of working with other technical experts and collaborating to affect a positive and appropriate outcome. Acutely familiar with, Microservice deployments, Docker, and Kubernetes, and able to contribute to the architecture & design of iProov’s distributed infrastructure.
As a public cloud-based operation utilising the three main cloud providers you will be competent in cloud technology operation as well as modern continuous deployment techniques.
We tend to look for people with:

• Participate in the design and support of complex infrastructure utilizing IAC.
• Provision Platforms and associated facilities.
• Design, develop, test, optimize, & build solutions.
• Troubleshoot platform issues, provide support, and respond to escalated tickets.
• Ensure the security and integrity of the platform is maintained, improved, and documented
• Help support compliance requirements and audit demands.
• Advanced Kubernetes and Cloud experience (preferably) in GCP environments
• Networking, VPC, VNET.
• Experience with VMware and build of kubernetes over VMware
• Compute, Storage, Access, Services and ancillary systems.
• Terraform and/or familiarity with platform provisioning from code repositories.
• Extensive Linux Command Line experience using tools such as, Curl, awk, dig, etc.
• Microservice runtime environments, familiar with, code repositories, versioning, CICD tools.
• API, HTTP Web Services, authentication/authorization, troubleshooting knowledge.
• Security, Access control, Certificates, tokens, and related techniques and implementation
• Docker development environments and deployments

About you:

• Work with project teams to evaluate objectives and timescales as required.
• Operational experience including development of monitoring systems and dashboards
• Understanding of essential metrics for effective reliability and operation of platforms.
• Scripting / Bash
• Pipeline and continuous integration/deployment experience
• Operational environment familiarity, change control, compliance, privileged operations.
• Helm deployments within Kubernetes
• Jira, Github, and ticketing processes.
• Basic Coding Experience / familiarity (python)

Benefits:

• 25 days Annual Leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays
• 3200 Share Options allocated after passing probation (6 months of service)
• Vitality Health Insurance - a range of options available on this below
• Life Assurance
• SmartHealth - Access to private GP, Psychologist, Nutritionist along with tailored fitness plans for both you and your family
• Award winning L&D platform to continue your development with personal allocated training budgets
• Enhanced Maternity leave package
• Pension - 5% employee, 3% employer
• Flexible working – remote/office etc.
• Free Barista Coffee/Tea, biscuits and fruit in the office
• Free access to WeWork discounts and free online well-being sessions

The Vitality Programme includes a number of reward benefits that all employees have access to as part of the plan, for example:

• 50% off monthly gym memberships
• Apple watches significantly discounted based member vitality status
• Half price trainers with Runners Need
• Weekly rewards – Free coffee with Café Nero
• Monthly rewards – Free Cinema ticket
• Discounts on travel with Expedia (hotels) and Mr & Mrs Smith with discounts getting greater throughout the year based on a members vitality status
• Amazon prime free months based on activity
• Up to 25% cashback at Waitrose when buying healthy foods
• 75% off stays at Champneys Health Spas
• Allen Carr’s £299 no smoking programme for free
• Access to Vitality Healthy Mind with 30% off Headspace subscriptions and the ability to earn Vitality points for using Buddhify, Calm and Headspace
• Discounts on Weight Watchers
• 50%-80% off Comprehensive Private Health screening

Due to the nature of our work, we may require our staff to pass a UK Security Clearance check. As such, any offer would also depend on your ability to adhere to the UK Security check criteria.