TELECOMMUTE DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer at Ripjar you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and security of the infrastructure that underpins our development and operational services. You will play an active role in supporting and continuously improving our core infrastructure offering, providing a solid foundation upon which we can deliver cutting-edge solutions to our customers.,

• Automate the deployment, operation and maintenance of systems in a hybrid cloud environment using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling.
• Administer systems and applications hosted on Linux-based systems.
• Design, deploy and maintain IP networks.
• Create robust automated solutions to allow development teams to self-serve routine infrastructure requests.
• Improve code security by integrating security testing tools into build and deployment pipelines.
• Implement effective monitoring of the reliability and security of applications and infrastructure services.
  
  Strong experience of administering and securing Linux hosts on both virtual and physical infrastructure.
• Extensive experience using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Helm.
• Experience of configuring, managing and securing public cloud infrastructure, e.g. AWS, Azure.
• Experience of administering containerised applications using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience of administering IP networking in a corporate environment.
• Experience of automating tasks using languages and tools such as Bash, Python, JavaScript, and GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of how to effectively use security testing and monitoring tooling, e.g. SAST and SIEM products.
• Knowledge of how to configure monitoring tooling for application and infrastructure metrics, e.g. Prometheus, Datadog, Open Telemetry
Candidates with the following background will be of particular interest:
• Experience contributing to incident response across a complex microservice-based application
• Application Security best practice including identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities in applications and cloud infrastructure, designing secure software systems, and implementing robust security measures
  
  Ripjar specialises in the development of software and data products that help governments and organisations combat serious financial crime. Our technology is used to identify criminal activity such as money laundering and terrorist financing and enables organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.
We are a remote first team, with a head office based in Cheltenham. This position is open to UK wide candidates. If you are based near Cheltenham, you are more than welcome to work from our office at any time.