DevSecOps Engineer - Remote

Plentific ,
London, Greater London
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Plentific is one of the fastest-growing property technology companies in the UK, with offices in Germany and Turkey. Our mission is to improve lives by making housing and property work better for everyone. We empower landlords and property managers with a platform to manage their properties. We utilise great local trade talent to create more jobs, build community cohesion and provide better services than ever before. Since our humble beginnings in 2013, we've achieved a lot at Plentific: * We're growing fast. We work with many of the biggest property providers in the UK. * Dramatically improved outcomes for housing providers, speeding up service delivery fivefold and creating economic opportunities within their local communities. * Set a new industry benchmark on responsive repairs by reducing typical time frames (20 days) to less than 4 days. * Recognised as 'Deal of the Year - Residential' at the UK PropTech Awards 2018, * Recognised as 'Professional Services Partner' at the UK Housing Awards 2019 and; * Repairs and Maintenance Provider of the Year at the 24Housing Awards 2019. * Entered partnerships with social enterprises such as Beam , with whom we help co-fund training for homeless people into trades jobs, and thus rebuild their lives. 2019 was an exciting year for Plentific - we were celebrated as leaders of transformative change - not just in our sector - but across business in the UK (UKBA Business Change/Transformation winner). Following a major funding round, we're now expanding into the wider professional/commercial real estate sector in Europe, with plans to launch into the US multi-family market later this year. We're a technology led business. We're proud to develop cutting-edge solutions for our customers, and that's only possible to do with a great team. Our culture is open. Empowering. Fast paced. If you're tenacious, passionate and driven, you'll fit right in. The role: We're looking for an experienced, detail-oriented and driven DevSecOps Engineer to join our engineering team and take on significant responsibility from day one. You will monitor site security, design new architectures and maintain existing infrastructure to ensure security controls are met. The team: The engineering team sits at the centre of everything we do at Plentific and is constantly tackling challenging problems, such as online payments, quoting, invoicing, booking, search / scoring algorithms, ETL, data pipelines, in-app messaging, real-time notifications and fraud prevention. Our backend engineers mostly work with Python and Django on an increasingly more service-oriented architecture. The tech stack includes Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, JavaScript (ES6, React.js, Alt.js, Node.js, Express), AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Celery, Pandas, Numpy, Scrapy, Git (with Zenhub), Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Logstash and lots of raw SQL for analytics. We have a very large and clean code base as we put significant emphasis on design patterns, code readability, testability, maintainability and extendability. Responsibilities: * Ensure the protection of all platform, application and infrastructure assets * Implement preventative mechanisms to identify and reduce security risks within DevOps * Integrate within the engineering teams and educate them to ensure DevSecOps practices are used throughout * Drive and maintain the use of API security, container security and cloud security, whilst optimising the use of automation * Document and update any procedure regarding the security, the data-flow, and the risk management of the infrastructure * React to security incidents by being a first responder and thoroughly document from start to finish in order to reduce the risk of similar incidents * Work with the business team to ensure that all regulatory controls are met Requirements * Experience as a DevSecOps engineer * Advanced knowledge of the AWS ecosystem, in particular with regards to security * Excellent understanding of many security principles across the whole product stack * Proven hands-on experience in Linux, Git, Docker and Kubernetes * Working knowledge of Jenkins or an equivalent CI/CD tool * Knowledge of RESTful API security * Software development experience in Python a large advantage * Excellent knowledge of networking protocols * Ability to think out of the box with a can-do attitude * Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical concepts in plain English * Excellent attention to detail with a strong sense of urgency * BSc in computer science, engineering or another computational field Benefits As you can see, we have big plans and are eager to grow our team of dreamers and doers to achieve our vision of managing over 1 million properties through our platform across various countries. You can help us shape the future of property management. Here's what we offer: * A competitive compensation package * Private health care including discounted gym membership * Learning and development

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