DevOps Engineer

Oaknorth.ai ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

OakNorth is the next-generation credit and monitoring platform that provides banks and lending institutions with the insight and foresight needed to create a better borrowing experience for the Missing Middle - the growth business who are the backbones of communities and economies globally but who have been in banking's blind spot for decades. The business was founded in 2015 by Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman, who previously co-founded Copal Amba and grew it to 3,000 employees over 12 years, before selling it to Moody's (NYSE: MCO) in 2014, returning 125 times capital to seed investors. Since its inception, OakNorth has secured over $1bn from several investors, including: Clermont Group, Coltrane, EDBI of Singapore, GIC, Indiabulls, NIBC, Toscafund, and SoftBank's Vision Fund. The Platform has been deployed at various banks across North America, Europe, and Asia, and in the UK where OakNorth lends off of its own balance sheet via OakNorth Bank. The platform has helped OakNorth Bank become the fastest-growing business in Europe according to the Financial Times FT 1000 (2020), profitably lending over 4bn to date. In terms of the impact this has had on the economy, OakNorth Bank's loans have directly helped with the creation of 13,000 new homes and 17,000 new jobs in the UK, as well as adding several billion pounds to the economy. With offices in London, New York, Manchester, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Istanbul, Gurgaon and Bangalore, the global team across the OakNorth Holdings group is over 800 people. You will: * Have excellent leadership skills and experience: Knows how to recruit, motivate, lead and retain excellent devops engineers * Lead by example: The right person will want to spend most of their time doing, rather than managing * Have been there, done that: Experience of infrastructure and release automation in a continuous integration/continuous delivery framework. * Have strong opinions: They won't be inflexible, but their deep experience has led them to a good practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't * Be a committed team player: Works well with devs and client stakeholders to ensure mutually excellent outcomes * Have exceptional judgement: By the time they say a release is good to go, or infra is ready to ship for a client, it's rock solid * Have good spoken and written communication skills: Not going to disappear or be hard to talk to or work with. Able to work with counterparts at clients to understand their needs and ensure our infrastructure works for them * Be a self-starter: They will be trustworthy in a situation with a high degree of self-management. Will just grind on problems making things better * Be calm in a crisis: If there is an emergency, they step up and deal with it. When things calm down, they make it so it doesn't happen again * Be meticulous about planning and organisation: Even if the dev effort is a little chaotic, infra is rock solid * Be great at the 1 to n: We've built a version which works for our first couple of clients. We need the person who will make it work flawlessly for many clients in multiple timezones etc * Be low drama: Looks to resolve problems, not amplify them * Believe in process: Deep commitment to setting up and automating excellent processes. Will build out an automated alerting machine and then make sure the phone never has to ring You have: * Deep Unix/Linux experience * Enough bash, python etc to be dangerous * Networking and information security * Docker, Kubernetes * Infrastructure automation: Terraform, Ansible, Salt stack, Puppet/Chef etc * Cloud providers: Working experience of AWS and at least one of Azure, Alibaba and GCP * Log collection and monitoring: ELK or similar * Continuous integration: Jenkins, CircleCI, Bamboo Thank you very much for your interest in OakNorth. We are happy to consider you for roles within our group of companies. If we can identify a match between your skill set and our immediate recruiting needs, please expect to hear from us very soon. If we are unable to identify a fit in the near term, please note that we intend to retain the data you send to us so we may contact you in the future. For more information regarding our Privacy Policy and practices, please visit: