DevOps Engineer at WorldRemit

As a member of WorldRemit’s Engineering team you will aim high, embrace challenges and always do what’s right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company’s technical direction and long term decision making.

What we’re looking for from you...

• Solid experience in either a DevOps or Engineer role with a keen interest in solving problems using code.
• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps methodologies. You understand the build and deployment cycle of an application and how it fits into a global platform.
• Great Terraform Skills. All of our infrastructure is defined using Terraform and deployed using Atlantis. You should have a good understanding of Terraform and be able to solve common issues.
• Containerisation. You have a good understanding of Docker and Kubernetes and how you can leverage these tools to ensure there is zero downtime.
• Holistic view on application delivery. You understand the use of many systems, APM, monitoring, logging, alerting, scaling to build a robust platform for applications to respond to the varying demands from both external sources (traffic) and internal sources (feature team delivery) in a safe and controlled manner.
• Our Cloud Native platform is hosted in AWS. You’ll be comfortable working with a system that supports users from around the world, at scale.
• Agile outlook. You need to be excited about working in a fast-changing environment. Products, tools, frameworks and processes change, we evolve and take the best bits with us. The teams drive the evolution.

Description

Who we are

We’re global, we’re growing and we’re going to need talent to keep up the pace. We’re making payments simpler for over 4m customers worldwide, in over 90 currencies. We’ve been around for 10 years, disrupting the market with a digital payment platform that aims to make sending money abroad as easy as sending a text message.

There’s almost 1,200 of us already hard at work and we love welcoming new people. We’ve got offices across the world, from London to Sydney and 15 locations in between - they’re open for business but right now lots of us are working from home. Want to be part of our global growth story - read on…

About the role

• Based in the US and working in the DevOps team, you’ll be helping us build our CI/CD platform (and all tertiary services) used by the global Engineering departments. The work is varied; from helping engineering teams deliver features reliably, to designing and implementing new DevOps tools and techniques, our team is proactive and always involved.
• We are a fast moving team operating in a growing Fintech company, supporting engineers on three continents. We are growing 50% year on year and this is continuing at pace. We use a modern DevOps tech stack –Jenkins, K8s, Harness, GitHub, Python, Terraform– and GitOps and Agile working practices to get the job done.
• As a member of WorldRemit’s Engineering team you will aim high, embrace challenges and always do what’s right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company’s technical direction and long term decision making.
• Reporting to the Director of Technology Reliability and Operations- Engineering, you will:
• Use code to solve problems. Configuration, infrastructure, tooling, and automation, everything must be solved by writing code.
• Helping design processes. You’ll be working closely with feature teams to assist with the release of new products, as such there is plenty of scope to design processes that fit in with the overall direction but allow teams to deliver code to production reliably and at pace.
• Helping design architecture. As well as owning the delivery of solutions you will also play a part in designing the architecture, how it interacts with dependencies from a logical and infrastructure viewpoint.
• Growing together. You’ll review others' work and happily seek feedback on yours to ensure we build a better codebase and sharpen each other's skills.

What you'll get from us

• 401K offering 4% employer match of employees’ base salary.
• Part employer-funded medical and dental care plans.
• Part employer-funded health savings account
• Recharge days, 4 per year, 1 day each quarter to use to relax, refresh and recharge
• Employee Assistance Programme offering general advice and wellbeing support, 24/7, 365
• Employer-paid Life insurance of 2 times your salary, should the worst happen.
• Voluntary Benefit plans available
• 15 days of vacation plus public holidays, rising to 18 days after 3 years.
• Paid sick leave.
• Eligible for discretionary bonus and recognition rewards.
• Our aim is to extend our high performing Infrastructure team and ensure we have the capability to work across multiple time zones effectively.

Based on this, we'd be really interested in candidates in the following locations:

• Florida
• North Carolina
• Virginia
• Illinois
• Canada (Montreal)