Kubernetes jobs in the United Kingdom

Datapane (github.com/datapane) is looking for an exceptional and experienced systems / infrastructure backend engineer to join our team. This role covers both backend systems engineering, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering; you can think of it as involving everything around what runs, where it runs, and keeping it running!

Our scale and workloads present unique challenges which mean this role is hugely important as we grow. Datapane's public API is the most popular way to share and embedding data science documents on the web. Additionally, we provide both a managed/automated cloud and on-premise solution for customers which includes serverless execution of their data science workloads and hosting of their internal data science reports.

The role has many facets, including:

1. As a systems infrastructure engineer, you will work on our serverless deployment engine that supports executing user code securely using Linux sandboxing technologies, such as containers, namespaces, etc. This covers running user's notebook and scripts in a highly available manner, and in the future will expand into use-cases such as providing Python REPLs for users to run analytics code from their browser
2. On the SRE side, maintaining the managed Datapane PaaS that includes our highly available public product and managed organisational private workspaces - all automated with Python + Pulumi and running on Kubernetes on GKE in conjunction with other GCP components
3. As a solutions engineer, developing a system for shipping on-premise solutions to customers who require Datapane in their private environments, such as VPCs (on AWS / Azure) or bare metal. This currently is built on Docker Compose along with cloud-specific components and provisioning systems (e.g. Terraform, Cloud Formation)

This will be a flexible role with a lot of potential. You might working with some of the latest Linux technologies (such as user-mode containers) to safely isolate analytics code; be orchestrating our CI/CD system to handle building and deploying a product used by tens of thousands of public users and organisations; optimising container build and distribution workflows; working on on-premise and cloud solutions; or pairing on new plugins to integrate Datapane with different data-stores. You'll also be helping to improve our automated deployment, management, and monitoring of customer workloads on the Datapane hosted platform.

The core Datapane platform is a Python system comprising of an OSS library and a free / managed Django server. On the infrastructure side, we try to stay as cloud-agnostic as possible, and can run on any IaaS, but are focusing on our own hosted PaaS on GCP.

Linux and Docker/container knowledge are essential, as is working with the main cloud platforms -- we have several customers running automated setups on AWS, Azure and GCP. Prior Kubernetes experience is desirable but not required; however, you need to be ready and willing to learn K8S as an administrator and operator. As an engineer, you will need to know some Python - we deliberately try to stick to a single language across our stack to maximise reuse, hence our product and most of our deployment scripts and commands use Python. General systems knowledge, for instance, Postgres setup, Redis, networking, load balancing, HTTP caching, SSL cert management, etc. are required to help maintain the Datapane PaaS.

You should be interested in developing best practices for running highly available and highly performant data services, and excited to pick up the new technologies and skills to do so.

Lastly, you should like the idea of releasing to real customers regularly, and prioritise getting a great product into users' hands for feedback and iteration. You will have extensive scope to build and architect the backend, and to help grow the team in the future.

We're looking for permanent, full-time, remote employees excited to join us on our mission. Please do not apply if you cannot start immediately/in the near future, are applying on behalf of an outsourcing company, or a freelancer looking for contract work - unfortunately such applications will be ignored.

We're looking for an experienced SRE or “DevOps” to join the Platform Team at Tessian. The Platform Team is responsible for defining and operating the infrastructure upon which our development teams and customers depend. Why is this role exciting?

• We have plans for fast growth in terms of customer numbers and our Engineering team.
• We have an ambitious product vision and a strong team determined to execute on it.
• We solve hard problems - scale, big data (Spark/EMR), security, large databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) and complex integrations.

What are our current and upcoming projects?

A large migration from AWS ECS to Kubernetes

In the past few years it has become clear to us that using AWS ECS is slowing us down. We have an ambitious goal to migrate most of our platform to Kubernetes by the end of the year, with an aim of speeding up our engineering teams.

Bolstering our security and deployments for Enterprise

We intend to close more enterprise deals and have a plan to do it. A key project we plan to start will be creating a deployment method that allows us to maintain developer velocity whilst also giving reassurances to security conscious customers.

Keeping the lights on as we scale to bigger customers

A crucial part of this role is to ensure that our systems remain reliable and working with engineering teams to drive quality and solve problems.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Support the vision and execution for the infrastructure for a fast growing missing critical SaaS product.
• Short term technical delivery within the team as well as setting the long term vision.Note that this does not include line management.
• You will work with the Head of Engineering and many stakeholders (tech leads in other teams) to define your team's roadmap.
• Day to day operation and security of the platform comes under you, with a focus on empowering other teams to improve their velocity.

We'd love to meet someone who:

• Has at least 5 years of AWS and “DevOps” experience
• Has experience with stakeholder management or as a product owner.
• Is a great problem solver who takes pride in their work.
• Enjoys building scalable and resilient systems, with a focus on systems that are robust by design and suitably monitored.
• Has strong experience managing a range of production applications in a distributed and highly available AWS environment.
• Has experience with and is opinionated about containerization (Docker) and a container orchestration system (e.g. ECS/Kubernetes).
• Has experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Has a deep understanding of Linux operating system and administration skills, and shell-scripting skills.
• Has a deep understanding of server/network security concepts and implementations.
• Programming knowledge, preferably Python.

Why we think you'll love it here

For summer 2021, we're excited to announce what we call "Refreshian Summer" - where every single Tessian will be able to down tools at 1pm every Friday in July & August, and enjoy a long weekend during the sunniest months of the year!

It's important to us that all Tessians are part of the journey we're on, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark to provide above market rate salaries - there's plenty more too….

Beyond this, there's plenty more that makes Tessian a great place to work

• A full week of work-remote a year, in addition to 25 days of paid holiday
• Curate your career with development experiences uniquely suited to you
• We're family friendly, with policies built to support you in all stages of life
• High-quality tech kit for you to work on
• If you're relocating to join the team, we'll provide a contribution to help with your costs
• On Fridays we stop at 5 for a virtual happy hour (or, to just log off early!)
• Classpass subsidy - which you can use for either in person or virtual classes

Coronavirus has changed how we work, and we're currently working from home. During these times we're supporting our team with:

• A work-from-home subsidy to cover all your home office must-haves
• Remote socials with food and drinks budgets

There's plenty to look forward to once we're back in the office too:

• An array of breakfast options, delicious snacks, drinks and a top-of-the-range coffee machine
• Flexible work from home policy
• Team lunch provided once a week
• Ping-pong and chess tournaments
• Whole team socials every quarter
• Dinner budget for those times you just can't tear yourself away

We want to help small business win. That's why we're here.

We connect small business owners to investors – to create jobs, help families and power economies – because we believe that people are made to do more. And we want to help them.

So, we created the leading online marketplace for small business loans. Our investors have lent £9.8 billion in 130,000 loans to 90,000 small business owners. In a single year, we unlocked 115,000 jobs and contributed £6.5 billion to the global economy. There's never been a better time to join!

Be part of the team that changes everything. Let's build the place where small businesses can get the funding they need to win and leave a legacy behind, forever.

This role sits within the “Tech and Data” teams. The drivers behind our platform – brilliant people working together to create, code, and build the next game changers.

What will you be doing?

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who's always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology and build scalable infrastructure? If your answer is yes, you're going to fit right in with our team.

The Platform team builds and maintains the infrastructure that powers all the apps at Funding Circle. If you enjoy automation, working with the latest technology and helping define and steer the technical direction of a global brand then this role is for you.

We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we're looking for people who feel the same.

• Be an automator: we're using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practice continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
• Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
• Be a game changer: we're building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; we're using technologies such as Kubernetes, Apache Kafka , Serverless
• Be a collaborator: you'll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
• Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to continue the development of our world-class engineering team.

You are

• Knowledgeable and experienced with building, running and scaling any of the following, in a highly available, high traffic Production environment:
  • Container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, Mesos
  • Observability tools such as ELK, Graylog, Prometheus, Graphite, Jaeger
  • CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins, CircleCi, Drone, ArgoCD
• From a Software Development background, familiar with the SDLC and know one or more coding languages, such as Go, Python, Ruby, Node
• An Infrastructure as Code expert
• Experienced with working in cloud-based infrastructure, such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• An excellent communicator especially in a remote environment

Why should you join us?

We're gearing up for our biggest chapter yet – and it's being driven by tech.

That means full steam ahead working on our global platform and real challenges for you to noodle and solve – as we build new things, reimagine the stack and go after the greenfield.

We believe that great ideas come from everywhere. So, there are no pigeonholes here. We keep it agile and open. Think big remits and huge ownership in a continuous learning environment. Close knit teams, with mentorships and global career opportunities. Everyone working together to make a genuine difference to small business owners, to us and to you.

Join the team making it happen. Help us define long-term commitments and launch the next game changers – let's build the incredible.

It's in our differences that we find our strengths.

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We're proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better. We particularly encourage applications from applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. We welcome applicants who may want to work flexibly, this position is available to be remote within the UK.

Want to Build the Incredible? We'd love to hear from you.