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Cloud Engineer, London

Employment Type

Full Time, Permanent

Application Start Date

03-05-2024

Application End Date

03-07-2024

Location

London

State/County

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Zip Code

WC2A 1AP

Country

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Work Style

Remote

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Position

Experience

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Education

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Description

About us 

Globacap is a rapidly growing capital markets fintech, on a mission to digitise and automate the world’s private capital markets. We deliver workflow automation software-as-a-service that brings public markets-like efficiency to private markets. From issuing securities to the ongoing administration of them, to the settlement of secondary transactions in private securities, it’s all point and click. 

 

Our technology is already being used by some of the largest institutions in the world, such as the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Nomura/Instinet.   

 

We’re looking for people with imagination and experience to be part of our rapidly growing team. Do you have that, and share our passion for technology? Do you like taking ownership and seeing the rewards of your hard work? Do you want to be part of a rapidly growing company with big ambitions to reshape the capital markets industry? If so, we’d love to have you on our team. 

 

The role 

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our Platform squad.  

 

Our Platform squad own foundational layers for Globacap’s SaaS offering, with a focus both on our cloud-hosted infrastructure and microservices platform. A key focus for the Platform squad is the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, runbook automation, and dynamic environment configuration. 

 

As a cloud engineer in this squad, you will focus on our underlying cloud infrastructure. As we grow to support an ever-increasing number of customers, we must automate the build and operations of our shared and dedicated environments through Infrastructure as Code, whilst enabling other teams such as client success to deploy new environments themselves using runbook automation. 

 

We are primarily a remote working organisation, however occasional/infrequent travel to London may be required. 

 

What you’ll do 

  • Contribute to Platform squad deliverables such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Runbook automation and dynamic environment configuration 

  • Work with product management to understand customer requirements. 

  • Work with architecture, security and production support to discuss and agree technical direction and strategy. 

  • Provide out of hours support for incidents by participating in the call-out rota. 

 

You 

  • Experience building and operating cloud platforms for SaaS products  

  • A broad skill set covering some or all of the following: 

  • ITIL Awareness 

  • Public cloud (AWS) 

  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) 

  • Kubernetes and container orchestration 

  • Helm charts 

  • Monitoring, observability and alerting tools (DataDog, PagerDuty) 

  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) 

  • Runbook automation (Airplane, Rundeck) 

  • Basic SQL skills (Postgres) 

  • Implementing security policies and tooling 

  • Experience with Cloudflare 

  • Building for high availability and implementation of BC/DR processes 

  • Be able to prioritise tasks and use own initiative 

  • High integrity and transparency 

  • Highly efficient, focuses on solutions, and see tasks through to successful completion 

  • A positive hands-on and “yes, we can” approach 

  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment 

 

What we offer you 

  • Flexible and remote working

  • Unlimited holidays

  • Private Health Insurance, including cash back for dental and optical care, EAP service and discounted gym membership

  • Opportunity for share options

  • Company pension

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