about the role:

Here at nate, we are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to come and assist our growing engineering team. There is an increasing demand for support to help them deploy faster with a focus on reliability. As our user base continues to grow, there is an increasing demand to ensure our services are healthy and robust, with the data kept secure.

As a passionate DevOps Engineer you will be instrumental in helping to build a DevOps culture with the opportunity to instil best practices and introduce new technologies. It means collaborating with a team of motivated individuals who are as passionate about the future of commerce and artificial intelligence as we are! And it means being an equity-holder, a doer, a risk-taker, a leader and an example to others. 

what you'll do:

• Work both collaboratively and independently to support our engineering teams to deploy and maintain services
• Improve the observability of our systems to support rapid iteration while maintaining stable services
• Improve our processes of deployment through to production with the development of the infrastructure code base
• Evangelize DevOps best practices and training the engineering team, with the ultimate goal of building a culture of DevOps
• Participate in rotating on-call duties and timely post-mortems of production incidents

about you:

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability and openness to mentor and guide team members
• Extensive experience of AWS cloud infrastructure 
• Experience of Docker and Kubernetes for containerisation and container orchestration
• Experience in infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
• Proficient with CI / CD pipelines, such as CircleCI
• Experience with at least one scripting language 
• Experience managing microservices for scaling, traffic management and deployment strategies
• Some SRE experience - improving the reliability of systems in production, fixing issues, responding to incidents
• A software development background is desirable with the ability to analyse and debug code (we currently use Typescript and Python but also exploring other languages such as Go)

finally, some perks!

• Absolute work title freedom
• Fully paid health benefits
• Professional Growth Fridays
• Wellness, education, and family planning stipends
• Weekly massage sessions
• Team building trips
• Global events and conferences
• Fully stocked fridge and pantry in office (coffee, tea, fruit, snacks, drinks, you name it)
• Weekly catered lunch
• Unlimited vacation days plus paid bank holidays and volunteer days
• Competitive compensation including equity!