Senior DevOps Engineer

OpenCorporates Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

About OpenCorporates

OpenCorporates is a certified B Corp, revolutionizing access to company data. It has built the world's largest open database of companies, and is trusted by regulators, financial institutions, investigative journalists, and businesses for its unparalleled breadth of data, covering over 200 million companies across 140+ jurisdictions, including the entirety of the USA.

Legal entities are at the heart of the modern world - and as we move into a world of digitalized commerce and AI-generated uncertainty, OpenCorporates will be there to provide the trusted foundational data the world needs.

Why join us?

We're at an exciting stage of our journey, recently appointing Wojtek Kokoszka as our new Chief Executive Officer. Wojtek is a seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of Zappi, the leading SaaS Consumer Insights platform. Wojtek played a pivotal role in scaling Zappi to $100 million in revenue.

Wojtek joins OpenCorporates with the clear mission to scale the world's authoritative source of legal-entity data, driving performance, fostering innovation, and executing strategic vision to lead OpenCorporates into its next phase of fast growth.

About the Senior DevOps Engineer role

Data is our product. Our data is used to support a plethora of client solutions from KYC to analytics and data management. Hundreds of organisations rely on our data at scale to power their critical operations, including the US government, the OECD, Oracle and many others.

As the Senior DevOps Engineer you will be joining a small team, where you will work in a creative, innovative and collaborative environment. You will need to be someone who lives and breathes cloud, who is passionate about open source, and who can cope with a dynamic changing environment. Supporting services both internal and external in core hours and extended when needed.

This is a unique opportunity to lead and architect solutions with autonomy on internal as well as cross functional team projects and would suit someone who can demonstrate independent working.

We would like you will need to demonstrate solid experience in:

• AWS (Understanding of the well architected framework, core services like IAM, EKS, S3, RDS, OpenSearch)
• Managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters (EKS) including configuration, Helm
• Terraform (building modules and complex deployments)
• GitOps / CI.CD including GitHub, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

Bonus points if you have 1 or 2 of the following:

• Understanding of security, DevSecOps and governance (including tools and services like Guardduty, Cloudtrail, Checkov, Renovatebot)
• Command line Linux experience
• Scripting languages (Ideally Bash, Python)
• Networking (AWS VPN, Routing, Watchguards)

Benefits:

• We're flexible - We support a culture of flexibility which allows our employees to achieve a strong work-life balance.
• Offices - We are remote first but not remote only. We have a strong in person collaboration culture and are looking for people who can work in a remote and hybrid setting.
• Holiday - 28 days of annual leave per year, plus bank holidays & an extra day for every year of service.
• Work abroad - You have the flexibility to work outside of the UK for up to 4 weeks in a rolling 12-month period.
• Regular company socials.
• For those special moments in your life, such as a big birthday or your wedding, we offer discretionary time off.
• Healthy living - Private healthcare with Aviva, life assurance, plus annual budget for your wellbeing.
• Personal development - We offer personal development budgets and learning days.
• Competitive package - alongside your base salary we offer share options and a bonus scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• £500 home office set-up budget.

Diversity Matters

Don't meet every single requirement? At OpenCorporates we're assembling a diverse innovative team that defies our industry's norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification. We welcome applicants with a curious growth mindset.