DevOps Engineer

2018-03-22T10:21:05Z

London United Kingdom

Closed

Who We Are:

The what3words team is on a mission to create the global standard for communicating location. We’re making the world an easier, more efficient and safer place for everyone.

what3words is built on the very latest tech platforms, which we’re always innovating and improving on – from a new website to apps, car and logistics software and hardware, voice technology, OCR and more.

We are proud of our tech stack. You’ll be exposed to technologies such as ReactJS, Docker, Redis, AWS Lambdas, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Athena, BigQuery, Java, Scala, C++ and Swift.

Life on the what3words tech team is innovative, Agile and fast-paced. You’ll be joining a group of talented people from all over the world on an unprecedented journey.

Everyday brings new challenges, and we are continually learning.

We are a global company located in West London’s creative hub. Our headquarters are near Portobello Road and a short walk from Westbourne Park and Royal Oak tube stations.

Requirements

Essential Skills:

  • AWS experience - EC2, S3, CloudFormation
  • Linux
  • Shell scripting
  • Git
  • Python
  • CI - Jenkins, Travis
  • Docker
  • Networking fundamentals - DNS, certificates

Desirable Skills:

  • ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK)
  • Kubernetes
  • Deployment - Ansible, Packer
  • Security / Hardening
  • Monitoring
  • CMS Experience - Wordpress
  • Big Data experience

You will have:

  • Excellent communication skills with perfect spoken and written English
  • The ability to talk to techies and non-techies in suitable language
  • A passion for development and staying current with technology trends
  • The ability to work both independently and with others
  • A focus on high quality software engineering work and attention to detail
  • The ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Extra credit if you:

  • Know about building out scalable data stores
  • Have a passion for working as part of a fast-moving engineering team

Benefits

We offer the following benefits to all permanent employees of what3words:

– Salary: £45k - £65k dependant on experience.

– 25 days holiday

– Share options

– Pension

– Private healthcare

– Cycle to work

– VDU eye tests

– Perkbox

– Free breakfast & snacks

– Birthday vouchers

– Weekly lunch & learn sessions

– Regular team lunches & team socials

– Sports and hobbies clubs


Please note that this role will be based in our London office, therefore we will only accept applications from individuals based in London (or ready to move to London immediately) and those that have authorisation to work in the UK.