Ripjar specialises in the development of software and data products that help governments and organisations combat serious financial crime. Our technology is used to identify criminal activity such as money laundering and terrorist financing and enables organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The DevOps Team Lead will oversee the day-to-day management of the core-infrastructure team (currently 5 headcount), ensuring the efficient provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of our mixed public and private cloud environment. This role requires a strategic mindset to design and implement infrastructure improvements while managing performance, capacity, and cost. The role holder will collaborate closely with Product, Delivery, Engineering, and Security to align infrastructure capabilities with business needs alongside regulatory requirements.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 5 years in operations management, particularly within a platform / core infrastructure team (or equivalent).
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in managing hybrid cloud environments (both public and private) and familiarity with relevant technologies and platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Our production workloads are currently hosted in AWS.
• Proficiency in infrastructure provisioning, systems administration and monitoring tools. We use Terraform, Ansible, k8s and Datadog to manage a range of RHEL/Rocky 9 hosts. Our analytics clusters make use of Spark, HBASE and HDFS.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable infrastructure solutions, ideally with some exposure to parallel processing environments used for large-scale analytics.
• An appreciation of security best practice in areas such as network security, threat modelling, vulnerability assessment, IAM, SIEM and incident response.
• Skills in system monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting infrastructure and micro-service-based architectures.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks like ISO 27001 and SOC 2, and experience in managing audits and compliance activities.
• Familiarity with incident response processes and tools, ensuring timely resolution of issues.

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