Kubernetes jobs in the United Kingdom

HealthyHealth: A New Standard for Life and Health Insurance Underwriting

Be part of the Tech and Data transformation of an entire sector from its core. We need you to help scale up a pioneer and write history.

The HealthyHealth model uses data to calculate the risk of diagnosis for over 800 conditions, along with Extra Mortalities and Morbidities.This can be used to save applicants hours filling out long insurer questionnaires or visiting the doctor, and disrupting the traditional underwriting process for the benefit of the early adopters.

• Founded 2017
• Scaling up
• Raised ~£3m
• Named one of Forbes’ “20 Tech-For-Social-Good Startups To Watch” In 2020
• 15 -> 45 Employees
• 5 -> 10 Developers
• Big data & analytics - HealthTech - InsurTech
• You will help us revolutionise this industry with a range of clients and partners from small to top-tier Insurers, re-insurers, and MGAs in Europe and APAC.

Responsibilities

We are looking for our first Technical Lead to help us scale our products and platform worldwide, while also building and nurturing the culture of our Software Engineering team. Our services consist of a cloud-hosted API that is being used by our clients and our mobile and web applications. We are looking for a person with a strong technical background, who knows and loves programming and wants to help our team to grow and improve our solutions.

You will be working on a daily basis with both on-shore and off-shore teams. That includes not only Software Engineering and Data Science team, but also working with product and business stakeholders. You will need to clearly communicate your technical solutions to various stakeholders, including potentially our clients during technical due-diligence with their engineering.

Your major focus will be on working with the team on technical improvements, security and scaling. You will also be the go-to person for the technical knowledge needed by our clients, so you might occasionally be required to join technical sales meetings with the CTO.

Responsibilities will include, not be limited to:

• Own key technological and architecture decisions and work closely with CTO on strategic decisions
• Work closely with Product Owner and business to provide the best solution for our client's needs while being on schedule
• Keep improving efficiency, security and scalability of our services by providing technical guidance to the team and verify your ideas by creating prototypes
• Be strong advocate of clean architecture, well-written code and good test coverage
• Identify potential risks in our services and address them together with the team
• Deploy services and maintain CI/CD together with devops and engineers
• Improve development practices and culture of Software Engineers and QA together with CTO
• Help us to communicate with clients efficiently by providing detailed internal knowledge of our technical solutions

Requirements

• Experience working as Technical Lead (2+ years)
• Solid English and clear communication skills
• Solid backend programming language experience (ideally Python)
• Proven experience with designing, implementing and maintaining cloud-hosted REST API solutions
• Have a solid understanding of AWS cloud components
• Be hungry to learn new frameworks, tools and technologies around cloud computing, programming, etc.
• Optionally have experience with creating mobile and web applications (ideally React and React Native)
• You should have good knowledge of Docker (with Kubernetes) and serverless technologies and know when to use them and when not to.
• Have experience with using and bootstrapping automation frameworks to help QA automate their work

Be part of the Tech and Data transformation of an entire sector from its core. We need you to help scale up a pioneer and write history.

The HealthyHealth model uses data to calculate the risk of diagnosis for over 800 conditions, along with Extra Mortalities and Morbidities. This can be used to save applicants hours filling out long insurer questionnaires or visiting the doctor, and disrupting the traditional underwriting process for the benefit of the early adopters.

• Founded 2017
• Scaling up
• Raised ~£3m
• Named one of Forbes' “20 Tech-For-Social-Good Startups To Watch” In 2020
• 15 -> 45 Employees
• 5 -> 10 Developers
• Big data & analytics - HealthTech - InsurTech

You will help us revolutionise this industry with a range of clients and partners from small to top-tier Insurers, re-insurers, and MGAs in Europe and APAC.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for DevOps Engineer to help us scale up our company. You will be responsible for maintaining our cloud-based infrastructure, while working closely with Software Engineering and Data Science teams on further improvements together.
• Your expertise will be used to discuss deployment and cloud architecture with teams in order to fulfil requirements of our clients. Because we operate world-wide, you will be also automating your work to make the infrastructure easily replicable and maintainable in various regions.
• You will be also expected to take care of cloud security, including IAM administration, VPN access, etc. in order to maintain high level of security and privacy required by law (like HIPAA, GDPR, etc.). Training will be provided via our partners.

Responsibilities will include, not be limited to:

• Maintain, monitor and improve our cloud infrastructure in AWS
• Work closely with Software Engineering and Data Science teams to deploy and monitor our applications
• Improve our infrastructure based on external (client) or internal needs
• Work with Tech Lead, CTO and Software Engineering team on improving security, scalability and availability of our services
• Maintain and improve security of AWS environments

Requirements

• Work experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Experience with deploying JS and Python application
• Good knowledge of AWS (IAM, EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, System Manager, etc.)
• Basic GNU/Linux administration
• Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• CI/CD administration (ideally GitlabCI, Bitrise, Fastlane)
• Infrastructure as Code and Instance Orchestration (ideally in Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with configuring and maintaining monitoring, logging and alerting systems (preferably Graylog, Prometheus, Grafana Loki, AWS CloudWatch)
• Knowledge of scripting languages is plus.

We are SICCAR, and we're building a product to better connect and protect businesses and society. SICCAR is a blockchain-based enterprise data sharing platform that gives organisations full control over how data is shared and used across their business ecosystem. Our transformative technology is being applied to enable trust, resilience and security in high impact problems, sustainability, government and business.

The platform is a .Net Microservices-based decentralised shared data protection system, based on our refined Blockchain solution which has been derived from Bitcoin cryptography and concepts. Through the use of our SDKs, the platform is easily used by our partners and solution providers - to build scenario-specific applications for interaction and sharing of data across multiple organisations in a controlled, verifiable, and provable manner.

We're a team of innovative people of purpose, who want to change the world and have fun doing it – now seeking software professionals to join our small engineering team as we innovate and refine our platform to deliver on an exciting future roadmap. We use Azure DevOps to execute and build on our development programme in an Agile-based Sprint methodology.

• You will bring experience and expertise that will complement our current tech stack.
• Have a problem solving, can do, attitude and you're not afraid to speak your mind.
• You will take stories where you can apply your expertise in areas from enhancing underlying platform engineering, through to developing innovative technology features and customer specific deliverables.
• You will be learning and working with experts in exciting, decentralised data technologies and cryptography.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for people of purpose, with a can-do attitude, that can join in and thrive in a team with a sense of fun.
• You should be a clear written and spoken communicator with min 3 years C# .Net recent experience.
• For the senior roles, it's useful to have built a broader view of successful software development teams in small and startup environments. Given the nature of our platform, exposure to interacting with identity in development, a computing science or numerate engineering/science background, or some cybersecurity experience are also desirable.

Requirements

Must:

• Microservices – using Distributed Application Runtime (DAPR), hosted on Linux Docker images
• Data and API – JSON, JSON Schema, REST, OData, Graph, gRPC
• Secure programming - data protection, use of HSM and OpenSource cryptography, such as Lib Sodium
• Identity – .Net Claims based Identity OIDC / JWT and Identity Server / AD B2C / etc
• Cloud infrastructure –
      - Storage: MongoDB, SQL, Redis
      - Compute: Docker, Kubernetes (kubectl), Container Registries
      - Network: Load balancers, Nginx Proxy, IP Routing, P2P Mesh

• SDK/Tooling – HTML/CSS/JS Web Assembly, Razor/Blazor other JS Frameworks
• Testing and performance - XUnit, Postman

Nice to have:

• Location: Edinburgh office, but open to remote working from anywhere in the UK