Description
Associate DevOps Engineer991
What we're all about.
Do you ever have the urge to do things better than the last time? We do. And it's this urge that drives us every day. Our environment of discovery and innovation means we're able to create deep and valuable relationships with our clients to create real change for them and their industries. It's what got us here – and it's what will make our future. At Quantexa, you'll experience autonomy and support in equal measures allowing you to form a career that matches your ambitions. 41% of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We speak over 20 languages across our 47 nationalities, creating a sense of belonging for all.
We're heading in one direction, the future. We'd love you to join us.
At Quantexa we believe that people and organisations make better decisions when those decisions are put in context – we call this Contextual Decision Intelligence. Contextual Decision Intelligence is the new approach to data analysis that shows the relationships between people, places and organisations - all in one place - so you gain the context you need to make more accurate decisions, faster.
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 Kubernetes & GitOps, utilising tools like ArgoCD and Istio
- Infrastructure Management - CasC, IasC (Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Packer)
- Hybrid public Cloud, primarily GCP & Azure, but also some AWS
- DevOps tooling/automation with the best tool for the job, commonly Bash, Python, Groovy, Golang
- Provisioning stack includes Elasticsearch, Spark, PostgreSQL, Valkey, Airflow, Kafka, etcd
- Log and metric aggregation with Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
Requirements
We are looking for candidates who:
- Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems
- Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system
- Commercial or non-commercial experience with programming/scripting/automation
- Good appreciation for information security principals
Experience in the following would be beneficial:
- Experience with infrastructure management and general Linux administration
- Experience with software build and release engineering
- Exposure to a handful of the key parts of our tech stack listed above
Benefits
Why join Quantexa?
Our perks and quirks.
What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.
We offer:
- Competitive salary and Company Bonus
- Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & events
- Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)
- 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off!
- Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period
- Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
- Private Healthcare with AXA
- EAP, Well-being Days, Gym Discounts
- Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties
- Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes
- Volunteer Day off
- Dog-friendly Offices