DevOps Engineer

Package & Benefits: Salary range of £50,000 - £65,000 per annum, along with benefits such as health insurance, employee option scheme, pension scheme, and 25 days of annual leave. In addition to a laptop and hardware budget provided.

Hybrid work arrangement: Our office is located in Aldgate East (London, UK), but we provide the option for flexible remote work from home.

UK-based applicants Only: This opportunity is open to individuals with pre-existing, unrestricted rights to work full-time in the UK.

Direct applications only, no agencies: Please note that we do not accept applications through agencies.

Student placement: This role is not suitable for individuals participating in student work placement schemes.

CV & cover letter: Please provide a CV and cover letter within your Easy Apply application. Please add your cover letter to the same file as your CV when prompted to upload in the following steps of Easy Apply.

What sort of software engineer do you want to be?

We are Motilent - a growing, profitable medtech company in London tackling the world's biggest chronic diseases and changing the way we see the gut.

We're at an exciting stage having recently been given an FDA listing for another of our medical devices, with continued growth in the usage of our technology we plan to grow our engineering team in 2024. Motilent's leading technology in digestive diseases is used by leading hospitals and life science companies worldwide.

You are an experienced DevOps Engineer, who wants to work at the cutting edge of clinical science and research, whilst having a real impact on the lives of people suffering from disease.

You're itching to become more than just a generic DevOps engineer, and see what it's like inside mission-critical software and infrastructure built to the highest standards. You want to help bridge the gap between the most challenging problems in medicine, and supporting the deployment and management of infrastructure using the latest software technologies. You want to work across infrastructure and configuration defined as code, automation of deployment, and more. You want ownership, career advancement, and to expand your skills and knowledge.

You should apply for this role if:

• You enjoy creating simple, effective, efficient, performant and clean code to define infrastructure and configuration, as well as refactoring and improving existing code.
• You care about providing high-quality services and infrastructure.
• You have a working understanding of Agile development and continuous integration/continuous delivery.
• Manage the Motilent infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and the configuration of its services using Configuration as Code.
• Manage the deployment of Motilent services updates, and updates to the infrastructure that supports those services.
• Design, implement and maintain Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines.
• Automate and improve development and release processes.
• Physical Installation and Maintenance of GIQuant in Hospitals.
• Define and deploy monitoring and observability processes for the Motilent services.
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats. Constant improvement of our security posture via adoption of the latest cloud security tools and processes.
• Help design and deploy solutions that meet our RTO, RPO and SLA up time objectives.
• Work in accordance with our Quality Management System (QMS) to enable us to ship regulatory-cleared medical devices. Document and Risk Assess key DevOps activities in line with our QMS.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 3 years as a DevOps engineer within a commercial enterprise with evidence of keen problem-solving skills and ability to use initiative to solve technical challenges.
• Proficiency in at least one modern Infrastructure/Configuration as Code language.
• Proficiency in terraform.
• Proficiency in developing complex modules using IaC.
• Proficiency in deploying infrastructure using IaC in AWS.
• Proficiency in administration of unix based systems.
• Proficiency with Git.
• Understanding of Agile software development methodologies.
• Proficiency in terragrunt.
• Proficiency in the development of CICD Pipelines in Gitlab.
• Proficiency in at least one Object Oriented Language.
• Proficiency in at least a scripting language.
• Understanding of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Working experience in DICOM DIMSEE / DICOMWeb.
• Working knowledge of AWS Lambdas.
• Working knowledge of Docker and containerization.
• Working Knowledge of Event Driven Solutions.
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or relevant field.
• Terragrunt and Terraform.
• AWS.
• Docker.
• Java.
• ...and more.
• You will report to a Technical Product Lead, who will also help you to further develop your skill-set.
• This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, our office is located in Aldgate East, but we provide the option for flexible remote work from home.
• Close collaboration with other members of our team.
• Opportunities to attend international conferences.
• Team socials.

Additional Information

• £50,000-65,000 per annum.
• 25 days of annual leave + public holidays.
• Health Insurance Scheme.
• Options Scheme.
• Full-time, Permanent.
• Budget and time for learning on the job.
• Laptop and hardware provided.

Interview Process

• Applicants must send a CV and cover letter - please add your cover letter to your CV before you upload it to LinkedIn when asked.
• If successful, applicants will be asked to complete a test within a given time frame.
• On test review, successful applicants will be invited to a brief non-technical interview to assess their compatibility with the company.
• This is followed by a longer, technical, formal interview with engineering representatives.
• Finally, references and background checks will be required.