DevOps Engineer

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 organizations 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 organizations - all in one place - so you gain the context you need to make more accurate decisions, faster. 

Founded in 2016 Quantexa helps organizations make their data more meaningful, and is the world’s leading software company providing a single networked view of internal and external data as an input to analytical and AI models. From compliance, fraud, anti-money laundering and credit risk to customer intelligence and master data management, Quantexa partners with Global Tier 1 Insurers and Banks, Government Agencies, Telecoms and Technology companies to deliver Contextual Decision Intelligence.

Due to the continuous success and high demand from our customers, we are looking for Mid to Senior level Scala Engineers to join our R&D team to build and shape the next generation of products that transform how organizations around the world use data.

Headquartered in London with significant offices in New York, Boston, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore, and Brussels and Malaga Quantexa is continuing its expansion within the UK, building on our core values of Determination, Ambition, Teamwork and Accountability.

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 Docker/Kubernetes/Istio
• DevOps tooling/automation - ArgoCD/Jenkins/Github Actions
• Scripting languages - Bash/Python/Groovy/Golang
• Provisioning software/frameworks (Elasticsearch/Spark/Hadoop/Airflow/PostgreSQL)
• Infrastructure Management - CasC, IasC (Ansible, Terraform, Packer)
• Log and metric aggregation with Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
• Public Cloud, primarily GCP and Azure, but also AWS

Requirements

What do I need to have?

• 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
• In-depth exposure to a handful of the key parts of our tech stack listed above
• Experience with programming/scripting/automation
• Good appreciation for information security principals
• Experience with infrastructure management and general Linux administration

Experience in the following would be beneficial:

• Experience managing microservice based architectures (scaling, upgrading, traffic management, deployment strategies)
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• Experience with software build and release engineering

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 

Our mission. 

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future. 

It’s all about you. 

It’s important to us that you feel welcome, valued and respected. After all, it’s your individuality and passion for what you do that will make you Q. We see that – which is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’ve created and will continue to improve our inclusive and diverse work environment. Regardless of your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity or ableness – whoever you are – if you are a passionate, curious and caring human being who wants to push the boundaries of what’s possible, then we want to hear from you. 

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