Senior DevOps Engineer

About ITRS

Recognised as a Great Place to Work, ITRS is an Enterprise SaaS provider with industry-leading solutions. Our prestigious customer base includes 90% of the world's top investment banks. We are backed by leading private equity investors and are rapidly growing.

Our headquarters are in Shoreditch - London's tech hub – with offices in other UK and global locations from the Netherlands to Manila, NYC and Florida. We pride ourselves on a diverse, friendly, dynamic culture - with a focus on internal promotion and developing our people.

Scope of Role

ITRS has a DevOps team that creates and supports its Continuous integration, build and similar systems. We are now building its next generation observability platform with the capability to collect, store and analyse the vast amount of data generated by banks and financial institutions.

Crucial to the adoption of our product is a streamlined client deployment and management process. With around 200 clients we are faced with different levels of complexity, automation, and sophistication in the deployment process – complexity which we need to consider when developing, testing, and marketing the product.

ITRS is looking to strengthening its DevOps team with an Engineer with experience in Kubernetes-based systems as well as a background in more standard software development DevOps.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Report to our Engineering Operations Director and work with the DevOps Engineering team in developing a flexible DevOps infrastructure to help all our Product Engineering teams.
• Work with Product, Engineering, TechComms, CloudOps, and Support to define, document, and promote best practices around deployment and management of our products.
• Help clients and early adopters to deploy our products (SaaS / On-prem, as applicable).
• Improve the manageability and supportability of our products – this includes working with Product and CloudOps teams to define new features required to make the product easier to manage.
• Actively participate in proposing, planning, and implementing DevOps solutions.
• Be an active part of the DevOps team  supporting  Engineering teams developing multiple ITRS products, sharing best practices, providing support, sharing knowledge and generally collaborating to solve the most pressing issues at hand.

Requirements

• Understanding of networking and TCP/IP.
• Knowledge of systems/networking security best practices.
• Experience with Linux system administration.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other similar orchestration technologies.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker.
• 4+ years’ experience in cloud technologies (for example AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience with configuration tools such Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
• Experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMWare, ESXI.
• Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL database.
• Experience in continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience with VCS such as Git.
• Some level of programming experience such as Python, Java, .NET.
• Proven ability to quickly assimilate modern technologies and skills.
• A Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or similar degree.
• Willing to work in a hybrid setup, reporting onsite at least once a week to our Makati office.

A person in this role would benefit from the following:

• Cloud container orchestration using Kubernetes and Helm.
• Working at scale with distributed cloud-based architectures.
• Experience in managing Kubernetes production environments.
• DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, Firewalls, VPN Configuration, etc.
• Monitoring, Back-ups.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.)
• Python, Bash.
• Experience in building custom tools.
• Experience in testing with automated frameworks.

Benefits

• Health Insurance for you and your dependants
• Supplemental Medical Claim
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Retirement Plan
• Flexible Hybrid Working
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Life Assurance
• Subsidies and Allowances

ITRS is an Equal Opportunity employer and Inclusion is part of our everyday life. We celebrate diversity and pride ourselves on providing an environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and have a voice, allowing everyone to contribute equally. We remain committed to advocating inclusion, diversity, and equality into our ITRS family as we grow and enrich our business.

We welcome applications from everyone in the community as we recognise that a diverse workforce is a stronger workforce.