DevOps Engineer

Department: Tech - Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Zinc - London

Reporting To: Iliasu Oko-Osi

Compensation: £62,000 / year

Description

Key Responsibilities 🗝️

• Working closely with the Platform Lead to understand the business and requirements, how the engineering team currently functions, and our current approach to the DevOps mindset within the company.
• Targeting areas of the app to revamp and modernise, alongside the wider organisation, to help achieve the scalable architecture needed to hit company goals.

• Developer Experience - defining new tools and policies to maintain and improve Developer Experience, whilst driving quality across the Engineering function.
• Platform Architecture - collaborating with the Platform Lead to plan strategic improvements to the Zinc Platform, enabling the company's tech to scale alongside the customer base.
• CI/CD - ensuring platform pipelines follow best practices, defining what "great" looks like across the tech stack, and maintaining the velocity the team achieves day-to-day.

• Shows curiosity about how Zinc operates and embeds within the wider engineering team, helping developers be the best they can be.
• High levels of ownership and passion, driving quality within the organisation.
• Working with the Platform Lead to plan and architect future revamps of the tech stack.
• Proactive in solving engineering problems across a wide range of areas.

• Reports directly to the Platform Lead, working closely day-to-day to shape and deliver the platform roadmap.
• No on-call rotation for this role, and no plans to introduce one - the focus is on building resilient systems and processes that reduce the need for reactive firefighting in the first place.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀

• Comfortable working alongside the Platform Lead and happy to wear many hats with support.
• This is a mid-to-senior level role, we care far more about the scope and depth of what you've owned and delivered than ticking a specific years-of-experience box, so don't rule yourself out if your path here has been non-traditional.

• Wide ranging experience across the DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering space. 
• Adept at working with Typescript codebases, with a good understanding of YAML within the context of CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable working with containers and container orchestration (we run our platform on AWS ECS). Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling such as CircleCI is a strong plus.
• Experience debugging and understanding performance issues within Javascript, with a good understanding of functional programming.
• Experience with Terraform or comparable IaC tooling. Terraform and Terragrunt are both part of our current stack, so familiarity with Terragrunt specifically is a plus.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical team members.

• Strong cloud skills, AWS is a preference given our stack, but we recognise the overlap with other cloud providers so candidates from different backgrounds are welcome to apply.

What we offer 🍉

• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
• £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)
• Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
• 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption) 🐣
• Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
• Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
• Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
• Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
• Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest) 
• Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme 
• Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳