DevOps Engineer at Prodigy Finance

What you will do in the role                             

As a DevOps Engineer, you will take a leading role in instilling a DevOps culture within the larger technology team, mentoring engineers and help to guide development teams adhere to best practice and evolving industry standards. You will lead by example, ensuring that the rest of the technology team is working with your vision. This is a specialized role; half trail-blazer, half coach.

Specific responsibilities are to:

• Build and prototype ideas into working solutions with longevity, scalability and stability in mind
• Document and explain DevOps best practices to the broader technology team and enable them to implement this in their daily work
• Teach and mentor DevOps to other engineers within the technology team 

What you will be measured on

You’ll be measured on the following:

• Technical competence; you love coding and solving problems with the ability to learn new paradigms quickly
• Excellent critical judgement; able to make good decisions, be trusted, respected and dependable, be proactive and responsive, ask the right questions, raise flags at the right time
• Technical leadership and team spirit; we are all contributing to the same platform, so be a great individual contributor and motivate the team through leading to achieve our collective goals – we only win if the team wins – see the impact of your own work and positively influence and help the work of others
• Get stuck in, execute, generate ideas, have an impact, don’t just sit back and be a passenger
• Being level-headed; keeping your head when everyone around you is losing theirs

What you need to be great at

• Be a strong, balanced and flexible team player in an Agile context
• Ability to influence and mentor development teams and foster a DevOps culture from the ground up
• Excellent communication skills and a strong team working ethic
• Proven ability to automate provisioning and maintenance of infrastructure in a cloud environment
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving ability
• Proficient with technologies used within the business such as Bash, Ruby on Rails, Python, Terraform, Jenkins and PostgreSQL
• Experience building and understanding microservices and service-oriented architecture (SOA and REST)
• Solid understanding of data integrity, security and continuity of business

Who we are looking for; track record must-haves

• 2+ years’ experience in a Software Development environment 
• 3 - 5+ years of general DevOps experience
• Deep and broad experience with Amazon Web Services
• Extensive work experience with container orchestration in high volume, distributed systems
• Proficient in at least one object-oriented language or one scripting language
• Experience with monitoring, logging and alerting solutions - the more the better
• Deep understanding of IPv4 networking, web protocols and Linux/Unix systems

Experience that would be nice to have

• Enjoys optimising systems by investigating and diving deep (beyond speeding up build times)
• Experience with JIRA or another issue tracking product
• A solid track record of deploying and managing microservices
• Experience with online version control services such as Github or Bitbucket
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.

The Prodigy Finance fit; attributes which run true in everyone at Team Prodigy

• To be an A player at Prodigy Finance, you need to possess – in spades - the following attributes:

Innovative + Smart

• Be curious enough to want to know more, think out the box, maybe even break the box, show initiative and be smart about it to find implementable, impactful solutions.

International + Accountable

• Push yourself to be better every day. Work with others across the world, be resilient, add value and then hold yourself accountable. Encourage and celebrate each other.

Energetic + Fun

• Sense of humour = survival. Bring energy and fun. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Work hard and find the time to play. We’re in this together.