Kubernetes jobs in the United Kingdom

Overleaf is a startup and social enterprise that builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over eight million registered users from around the world and over 400,000 people use our platform each day. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

Overleaf was founded by two mathematicians who were inspired by their own experiences in academia to create a better solution for scientific collaboration and communication. Now we are a team of about fifty with fifteen engineers. We were recently recognised as one of the UK's top 100 fastest growing businesses and as the Best SaaS for Nonprofits or Education in the 2020 SaaS Awards Program.

We're part of the Digital Science family of science, health and ed-tech companies.

Your New Role

We are looking to hire a devops engineer to help run our platform. This is a complex web app that allows users to edit their scientific documents in collaboration with others, in real-time.

Your role will involve helping us to run and maintain our microservice infrastructure, debug live problems, improve security and adopt new technologies and best practices (such as continuous deployment). You will also be looking into live issues if they occur, and helping to diagnose and fix problems in production.

We have an on-call rota for production issues out-of-ours which would require you to be available at certain times. This is flexible and usually covers 1-2 days per week, for which there is compensation. You would not be required to work additional hours for this.

Most of your time will be spent working with Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine and Terraform on Google Cloud Platform, but you may also write or modify tools written in JavaScript or Ruby.

Most of our microservices are written in Node.js using MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis.

Overleaf is based on open-source software, and most of our product code is itself open source. You can find it on GitHub:https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf

As a member of the Engineering team at Overleaf, you will be helping to make Overleaf the place where scientists, researchers and academics go to do their best work.

How We Work

Overleaf is remote-first — all staff work remotely and this is part of our values. We also have an office space in London for those that want to use it, and when the pandemic settles down we'll again get the whole team together in London a few times a year for face-to-face time.

Our core hours for meetings are 2pm–5pm UK time; we try to schedule all team meetings during this time, including daily 10–15 minute standup calls and biweekly company update calls.

How We Hire

The stages in our hiring process are typically:

1. We will aim to update you on the status of your application within 7 working days from when we receive it.
2. We'll follow up by email with any questions we have about your application, usually around logistics, your ambitions and your expectations about the role.
3. We'll schedule a 30-minute call for an initial discussion to discuss the role and your experience, to see if they look like a good fit.
4. We'll schedule a more in-depth interview, which is typically two hours long. The first hour is discussion, and the second hour is based on a short homework assignment (max 1h outside of interview) or an exercise during the interview if you prefer. The problems are practical in nature (no fizz-buzz or reversing linked lists).
5. We'll make an offer. We usually interview in batches, so there may be a short delay while we interview other candidates, but we will try to keep you informed throughout the process.

If you have a deadline, please let us know in your application, and we will try to be accommodating.

Requirements

We require that you:

• Have a minimum of 1-2 years relevant experience (we aren't taking on new graduates at the moment)
  • Experience with the technologies we use helps, but you don't need to know them all; your ability to learn is much more important to us.
• Will work for us full time (or nearly full time)
• Are based in the UK, EU, US or Canada
• Will usually be available in our core hours, 2pm–5pm UK time

Benefits

• Remote and flexible working.
• Salary £35k–£75k per year depending on experience.
• Additional compensation if participating in the out-of-hours rota.
• You would join a small, dedicated and growing team.
• We're substantially (around 80%) open-source, so your work will often be on open source code.
• We get everyone together in London for team meetings several times a year for valuable face-to-face time (pandemic permitting).
• We'll provide a new Mac, PC or Linux laptop, along with a stipend for other equipment.
• We provide a training budget; many of our developers choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials.
• We run regular remote hackathons to keep learning and experimenting.
• We run a weekly internal seminar series with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We're an award winning consultancy with an awesome team of individuals - working together to help clients on their digital transformation journey.

If team work inspires you and you're driven to make a real difference to both people and organisations, we're always on the lookout for brilliant new team members - Can you add your very own chapter to the DevOpsGroup story?

What You'll Do...

As a team, we are crafting the future legacy of DevOpsGroup and we are looking for more super talented individuals to add their mark. As the team continues to grow, we are looking to meet experienced Senior AWS Engineers to discuss how your future could look with us at DevOpsGroup.

You'll be working with a variety of technologies and tools such as AWS, Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes, EKS, Jenkins, Cloudformation or Terraform (just to name a few!)

Here's how your first month will look…

• Our People Team have provided you with everything you need to know during your onboarding
• You are now using the laptop, kit and setup of your choice
• You'll dive straight into your team stand-ups
• We'll introduce you to our OKR's and possibly assigned some of your own
• You'll be using some of the many features AWS Sandbox has to offer
• You've learnt a tech stack you are not familiar with
• You've attended your first DevOpsGroup Conference
• As a new starter, the access to our knowledge base and support systems is coming in real handy
• Any queries or concerns? These have been addressed and you're more than ready for your DevOpsGroup future

By month three…

• You've continued pairing with others and work independently on areas you are more familiar with
• As you have full access to our DevOpsGroup Academy, you've probably completed some further certifications, such as the Agile and DevOps foundation
• You've been involved in implementing client infrastructure
• You are starting to deliver some exciting work for our clients
• Perhaps you've got a thing or two wrong along the way, failure is an option at DevOpsGroup and is something we are always learning from
• You may have planned how you'll be spending your yearly training budget
• You are now familiar with every member of the DevOpsGroup family
• The opportunity to influence architecture has come about once or twice
• You are familiar with a client's tech stack
• Perhaps you are regularly attending client stand-ups

A full year with DevOpsGroup…

• You've added significant value to our client experience
• You've assisted on several successful cloud migrations
• Whether it's stage or screen, the platform is yours and you may be reflecting back on some epic uses of it
• Through our academy, you are helping to champion the next generation of talent
• You continue to be in awe of the rate of change within AWS as your knowledge of this platform continues to grow even further
• You know what is required of you to achieve the next grade in your career here

We're looking for people who…

• Have no fear of change
• Have deep DevOps domain knowledge
• Stay focused while adapting fast
• Are open to occasional travel (post pandemic) but can also work remotely
• Innovate and make extraordinary things happen
• Stay awesome while under pressure
• Grow when faced with challenges

The experience you'll need…

• Deep technical understanding of AWS with validated experience working on build and migration projects
• Experience working with a range of automation tools for managing cloud infrastructure, such as Puppet, Ansible or Chef
• Strong knowledge of Terraform or Cloudformation
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins)
• You will be familiar with Kubernetes/EKS and this is an area of keen interest for you
• You can work in Scrum and Kanban, agile methodologies
• A strong dedication to delivering client success
• Hopefully you will already have some awesome AWS Certifications under your belt, bonus points for the Solution Architect or DevOps Pro Certs.

The start of your DevOpsGroup Journey…

We're an award-winning consultancy with an awesome team of individuals - working together to help clients on their digital transformation journey. We are a company at the beginning of exciting growth with heaps of opportunity for professional development.

If collaboration inspires you and you're driven to make a real difference to both people and organisations, we're always on the lookout for brilliant new team members - Can you add your very own chapter to the DevOpsGroup story?

As a team, we are crafting the future legacy of DevOpsGroup and we are looking for more super talented individuals to add their mark. As the team continues to grow, we are looking to meet experienced Cloud Engineers (Azure) to discuss how your future could look with us at DevOpsGroup.

You'll be working with a variety of technologies and tools such as Terraform, Powershell, App Insights, Azure DevOps, Ansible, AKS, Github and SQL Server, just to name a few!

Even though we have offices in Cardiff & London, we fully support remote and flexible working here at DevOpsGroup, so if you are not currently residing in these locations, we would still love to hear from you to discuss #LifeatDOG

Here's how your first month will look…

• Our People Team have provided you with everything you need to know during your onbaoarding
• You are now using the laptop, kit and setup of your choice
• You'll dive straight into your squad stand-ups and be introduced to all of the Omni squad
• DevOpsGroup metaphors are something you are totally down with
• You've learnt a tech stack you are not familiar with
• You've used all your Azure credits playing with cool and exciting tech
• Our client engagement model is something you are familiar with
• You've attended your first (virtual) DevOpsGroup Conference and like all good conferences you are now the proud owner of plenty DevOpsGroup branded SWAG
• As a new starter, the access to our knowledge base and support systems is coming in real handy
• Any queries or concerns? These have been addressed and you're more than ready for your DevOpsGroup future

By month three...

• You've continued working in your squad and work independently on areas you are more familiar with
• As you have full access to our DevOpsGroup Academy, by now you've completed a training course or two
• You've been involved in implementing client infrastructure
• You are starting to deliver some exciting work for our clients
• Perhaps you've got a thing or two wrong along the way, failure is an option at DevOpsGroup and is something we are always learning from
• You are now familiar with every member of the DevOpsGroup family
• The opportunity to influence architecture has come about once or twice
• You understand Agile methodologies and love moving JIRA tickets into done
• Perhaps you are regularly attending client stand-ups
• You may have planned how you'll be spending your annual training budget

A full year with DevOpsGroup**...**

• On reflection, you've delivered some pretty awesome things for our clients and your proud of the lasting value delivered
• Whether it's stage or screen, the platform is yours and you may be reflecting on some epic uses of it
• You've achieved significant progress on your learning pathway
• You collaborated with several of our partners to help deliver value to our clients
• You know what is required of you to achieve the next grade in your career here
• Your wardrobe is now filled with DevOpsGroup merchandise

Requirements

We're looking for people who…

• Have no fear of change
• Have the right attitude and behaviour
• Stay focused while adapting fast
• Innovate and make great things happen
• Stay awesome while under pressure
• Grow when faced with challenge

The experience you'll need…

• A deep technical understanding of Azure with experience working on build and migration projects
• You will have a good working knowledge of Terraform, and if you have an experience with Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, then even better.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Experience working with DevOps and automation tools and practices for managing cloud infrastructure particularly infrastructure as code build outs and familiarity with SDLC pipeline automation.
• Exposure to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) would be a bonus.
• Excellent communication and client facing skills including the ability to lead small to medium size projects and produce well written documentation
• Solid understanding of the DevOps tools landscape and the major areas of DevOps tooling
• Strong dedication to delivering client success

Partner and Tech Insight…

We've built some awesome relationships with our partners, which means we're always working with the newest tech. Some of our partners include AWS, Microsoft, AppDynamics, Atlassian, Chef, GitHub, RedGate, Datadog and Puppet…..

You'll usually find our partners at our monthly conferences running a session on their newest tech.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our DevOpsGroup. We believe that a Safe & Inclusive environment is important and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

Please note: To protect our staff and candidates during the Covid-19 Pandemic and help keep everyone safe, interview stages will be conducted remotely, via Telephone and Zoom. We are a collaborative bunch and embrace the necessary tools available, to ensure the process is as flexible and smooth as possible during this time.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual training allowance for personal development
• Choice of Mac or Windows laptop upon joining
• 25 days holiday plus your birthday off (+ bank holidays)
• 8% pension (5% from you, 3% from us)
• Flexible and remote working options
• Life Assurance (x4 salary)
• Health Insurance through Vitality plus a load of other perks

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer or Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. You'll work on a highly automated DevOps platform built on top of modern technologies like Kubernetes, AWS stack including EKS, Lambda, Node.JS, Elastic stack, Terraform (to name a few).

This is a great opportunity for someone who has maintained highly available & secure production environments and would like to expand their knowledge and experience while working in a dynamic environment and face new challenges.

You'll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a small team, doing things the right way and providing customer value through your work.

Your work on our platform will directly and indirectly improve people's experiences when using our fintech products by providing a stable, scalable, secure and highly available platform.

As a member of the team, you will:

• Help to design and build environments using best technologies to make them more scalable, available and secure
• Take responsibility for work and code quality
• Improve our processes and tools through communication, automation and optimisation
• Share knowledge of tools, techniques, new features and ideas with the Moneyhub team
• Solve issues and suggest solutions as part of feature development and support
• Contribute to our code base to improve and create internal tools and integrations
• Help the rest of the business understand our security and ops processes through contributing to documentation and raising awareness

Who you are

We're interested in people who:

• have worked and maintained highly-available production environments
• have a proactive approach to work
• have experience in managing Kubernetes clusters (we use EKS)
• have worked with microservices-based systems
• have some programming experience (we use nodejs)
• have written and maintained environments as IaC (we use Terraform)
• take a systematic and holistic approach to solve problems
• have experience of using testing to validate solutions
• have an understanding of web security and accessibility
• are familiar with technologies used for web applications, e.g databases, backups, CDNs
• have experience with Linux operating systems and scripting languages
• have experience of working on, or with web services from operational point of view
• Have applied practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps
• understand change and incident management
• communicate with accuracy and effectiveness
• effectively work autonomously and with colleagues
• can be part of the on-call team to provide 24/7 support for the production platform

If you require any reasonable adjustments or you would like to speak to a member of the Moneyhub team before applying then just drop us an email at [email protected]

About Moneyhub

The Moneyhub story began when we noticed a big flaw in how consumers were able to interact with their own financial data. We were frustrated by the inability to see all of our finances in a single place, preventing us from using this to improve our financial wellbeing. Our tech team had a passion to make things better, and so, Moneyhub was born. When Open Banking was just a theoretical concept, we created ground-breaking financial data aggregation tools for holistic financial planning and innovated the way to pay using bank accounts instead of cards. Now, we are a leader in using customer insights for the welfare of clients and users.

Life at Moneyhub

Our mission is to improve the financial wellness of people, their companies and their communities. We want to serve the whole population through every change in their finances. We do this by powering businesses through our APIs and white label solutions as well as our own personal financial management app for consumers. We can only do that by being an inclusive and diverse organisation. We invest in our people, and enjoy an environment focused on innovation, collaboration and openness.

We champion flexibility, and we trust and respect our employees to deliver results in a way that best suits them, working around their own lives and commitments. As well as a truly flexible approach, we also offer a fantastic range of benefits, including a 10% contribution towards your Pension from your very first day with us; 25 days of holiday (plus bank hols); private medical insurance, including cover for pre-existing conditions, plus dental and optical benefit; 6 week Moneyhubber Family Pay when you become a new parent; permanent health insurance and life cover (death in service); employee assistance programme; professional development support; life event leave; holiday purchase and more.

Location

We can only accept your application if you have the right to work in the UK (and we do not sponsor work permits). Moneyhub embraces flexible working, including remote working. You will also be required to undertake a DBS check for this role.