Senior Devops Engineer

Our Vision: To become the global platform for transacting commercial property. Imagine a “Transact it now” button for a property, where your entire leasing/investment transaction is digital, from marketing, and matching through to negotiation and signing. Or a world where property portfolios can be packaged up and digitally traded like any other asset class. That world is Kato.

Our Product: Collaborating closely with clients, industry leaders, and our strategic investors, we've developed a digital commercial real estate ecosystem used by approximately 80% of the UK's commercial real estate market. This platform stands on the pillars of trust, security, and transparency, offering a singular solution that encompasses all aspects of a commercial real estate transaction, including marketing, matching, tracking, reporting, negotiating, signing, and closing deals.

However, we aren’t stopping there!

We have embarked on ambitious plans to strengthen our existing product offering and market share, expand our stakeholder base within our ecosystem, and sustain our swift expansion throughout Europe and internationally.

We're looking for the brightest minds and most passionate individuals to help us get there!

The Role

Kato collaborates with all the major real estate agencies, engaging in projects on both a local and international scale, and commands a significant presence within 80% of the UK market. In the role of a Senior DevOps Engineer at Kato, you will play a crucial role in the technical progression and efficiency of our infrastructure.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key member of the Development Operations team, dedicated to enhancing our delivery pipelines and infrastructure automation. This role focuses on improving operational efficiencies and reducing the time to value by streamlining the deployment processes, automating tasks, and ensuring the robustness of our continuous integration and deployment frameworks as well as improving our security posture.

The successful candidate will work closely with both the engineering teams and client-facing departments to bridge the gap from system architecture to live operations. This involves proactive involvement of scalable solutions, and maintaining high standards of operational excellence through advanced monitoring and post-deployment support.

Key responsibilities

• Security Integration: Integrate security throughout the SDLC, conduct vulnerability assessments, and ensure compliance with standards like GDPR or PCI-DSS.
• Development and Operations: Maintain CI/CD pipelines, enforce coding best practices and security, and automate repetitive tasks.
• Collaboration and Leadership: Work with cross-functional teams, mentor on best practices, and contribute to strategic alignment of security and development.
• Incident Management: Lead incident response, manage security monitoring and alerting tools, and maintain compliance documentation.
• IT Support: Provide expert-level support, enhance security awareness through training and documentation, and secure IT infrastructure.
• Research and Development: Keep abreast of emerging technologies and trends, evaluate security tools, and refine DevSecOps processes.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain playbooks and metrics, and communicate test results and risk assessments effectively.
• Agile Participation: Engage in Agile ceremonies, provide testing perspectives, and promote quality assurance best practices.

Candidate background

Technical Skills:

• Programming and Scripting: Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, or Go, and scripting languages like Bash or PowerShell for automation tasks.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage and provision infrastructure through code.
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Knowledge in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Travis CI.
• Containerisation and Orchestration: Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and container management solutions to support scalable, distributed systems.
• Cloud Platforms: Deep understanding of cloud services (AWS) including managed services, and cloud security best practices.
• Security Tools and Practices: Familiarity with security scanning tools (static and dynamic analysis tools), vulnerability assessment tools, and penetration testing tools (e.g., OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Qualys). Knowledge of secure coding practices, encryption technologies, and understanding of network security protocols.
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), or Splunk.
• Database Management: Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, database security concerns, and database management.

Operational Skills:

• Incident Management: Ability to lead incident response strategies, including troubleshooting, mitigation, and post-mortem analysis.
• Compliance and Risk Management: Knowledge of regulatory compliance requirements relevant to the industry (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2) and experience in risk assessment and management.
• Performance Optimisation: Skills in optimising application and infrastructure performance for scalability, efficiency, and reliability.

Soft Skills:

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot complex issues and find innovative solutions.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with IT teams, developers, stakeholders, and to document processes clearly.
• Adaptability: Capacity to quickly adapt to new tools, technologies, and methodologies in the fast-evolving DevSecOps landscape.
• Teamwork: Strong teamwork skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• Time Management: Efficient time management skills to juggle multiple tasks and priorities under tight deadlines.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Good knowledge of relational databases, version control tools, and developing web services.
• AWS certification:
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

Working at Kato

• A role at the forefront of the digital transformation in the commercial real estate industry.
• The opportunity to work with a dynamic, rapidly expanding global client base.
• Collaboration with a team of passionate, innovative professionals.
• A supportive, growth-oriented work environment.

We want you to be aligned with and incentivised by Kato's success, so we offer a competitive salary, an Apple laptop, all the software you need to thrive, and…

• 25 days annual leave
• Extra “life” days; a duvet day, a life-event day, your birthday off, 2 days’ pawternity
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
• Healthcare package (including Dental & Optical care)
• Training & support provided
• Enrolment onto our company pension plan
• Casual dress code
• Snazzy offices in Soho and Bracknell with games & refreshments
• Summer & Christmas parties, plus ad hoc social events and highly competitive office Bake Off

Our tech stack

• PHP 8, Laravel
• React
• MySQL
• Amazon web services
• NewRelic

Interview process

• 30 mins online test
• 120 mins video call with the Head of Engineering
• Offer stage

At Kato, we're dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diversity in age, gender, race, orientation, beliefs, abilities, ethnicity, and perspectives.

We prioritise everyone's voice, ensuring it's heard and respected.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £60,000.00-£85,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• How would you design your perfect Continuous Delivery? Please write down as much as detail as possible. Failure in answering this question would result to rejection.

Education:

• Bachelor's (required)

Experience:

• DevOps: 6 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London

Application deadline: 27/05/2024