DevOps Team Lead

November 8

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Financial Crime • Data Fusion • Automated Analytics • Data Intelligence • Natural Language Processing

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Description

• Ripjar specialises in software and data products for combating financial crime. • Core infrastructure team manages hybrid cloud IT infrastructure for data analytics solutions. • DevOps Team Lead oversees core-infrastructure team, ensuring efficient operations and improvements. • Collaborates with teams to align infrastructure with business needs and regulatory requirements. • Coordinates team activities, monitors performance, and optimises processes for support operations. • Handles incident response, compliance activities, and disaster recovery testing. • Ensures security best practices and cost management for infrastructure services.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in operations management, particularly within a platform / core infrastructure team (or equivalent). • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. • Proficiency in managing hybrid cloud environments (both public and private) and familiarity with relevant technologies and platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Our production workloads are currently hosted in AWS. • Proficiency in infrastructure provisioning, systems administration and monitoring tools. We use Terraform, Ansible, k8s and Datadog to manage a range of RHEL/Rocky 9 hosts. Our analytics clusters make use of Spark, HBASE and HDFS. • Experience in designing and implementing scalable infrastructure solutions, ideally with some exposure to parallel processing environments used for large-scale analytics. • An appreciation of security best practice in areas such as network security, threat modelling, vulnerability assessment, IAM, SIEM and incident response. • Skills in system monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting infrastructure and micro-service-based architectures. • Understanding of compliance frameworks like ISO 27001 and SOC 2, and experience in managing audits and compliance activities. • Familiarity with incident response processes and tools, ensuring timely resolution of issues.

Benefits

• Competitive salary DOE • 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. • Fully remote working with occasional office travel • 35 hour working week. • Company Share Scheme. • Private Family Healthcare. • Employee Assistance Programme. • Company contributions to your pension (Salary exchange scheme) • Enhanced maternity/paternity pay. • The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro. • Free food and drink • Hybrid working from our Cheltenham, Bristol or London offices