DevOps Engineer

At R3, we envision a world where value moves freely and business is conducted securely. Our mission is to facilitate an open, trusted, and sustainable digital economy. As a fast-growing company with the resilience of a startup, we foster an innovative culture where every idea is valued and where no two days are alike.

The DevOps Engineer plays a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the services offered by R3 to its clientele. Reporting to the Infrastructure and Release Team Manager, you will be an integral part of a dynamic team tasked with constructing, delivering, and managing the infrastructure supporting R3's primary customer services. This challenging position involves collaborating closely with Software Engineers to deliver both internal and client-facing services.

The ideal candidate will have a robust technical background in financial services, telecommunications, or critical infrastructure services. Embracing the DevOps culture, you excel in working with distributed teams and conducting peer code reviews as part of your routine.

With a proactive "go-getter" attitude, you take the initiative in resolving issues arising from continuous improvement efforts or daily tasks. Your commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences, rather than just code, is evident in your service-oriented approach. You possess a strong track record of operating, maintaining, and enhancing services to the highest standards.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring software repositories are updated with the latest releases using current DevOps tools and spearheading beneficial changes for the team.
• Collaborating with various teams to drive infrastructural enhancements that boost the high availability and scalability of existing and new service offerings.
• Championing an automation-first approach and actively contributing to automated operations.
• Delivering high-quality work that meets customer requirements for other Production department teams while advocating for continual process improvements.
• Proposing essential changes in Development and Operations to maintain a top-tier Managed Service.
• Providing training to team members on operational and administrative tasks.

Qualifications (Required):

• Passion and enthusiasm for DevOps practices within R3.
• Minimum of 5 years in a DevOps-oriented role, with additional experience in sysadmin, network operations, or support roles being beneficial.
• Strong teamwork skills, including emotional intelligence, to thrive in a diverse team environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, capable of grasping and implementing code changes regularly.
• Extensive experience with DevOps tools like Terraform, Ansible, Helm for infrastructure automation.
• Prior exposure to at least one public cloud provider.
• Proficient in Linux with a background of deploying infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and Ansible, along with automated provisioning and configuration management.
• Working knowledge of at least one modern scripting language for automation.
• Demonstrated expertise in software development tasks, with a preference for Kotlin, Java, or other JVM-based languages.

Qualifications (Preferred):

• Experience working with Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Familiarity with Cloud Native Landscape software.
• An engineering or science degree is advantageous but equivalent career experience is equally valued.

R3 is a prominent enterprise technology company specializing in digital solutions for regulated financial markets. Our innovative technology enhances the efficiency, transparency, and connectivity of financial markets, facilitating the progression of markets towards an open, trusted, and lasting digital economy.

At R3, our workforce embodies our core values of Collaboration, Ownership, Boldness, and Customer Focus, making our Corda DLT platform and R3 Digital Markets solutions trusted by world-leading financial institutions. We are dedicated to maintaining an inclusive workplace that values diversity across all aspects including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, background, disability, veteran status, and culture. We believe in fostering an environment where individuality is celebrated and recognized as an asset that enhances our collective strength.

If you do not meet all the listed criteria but believe you would be a valuable addition to R3, feel free to submit your CV/resume. We welcome individuals who embody boldness, collaboration, and enthusiasm to join our team and contribute to our shared success.