Principal DevOps Engineer

at  Capco

ABOUT YOU

Capco is looking for hardworking, innovative and creative people to join our Digital Engineering team.

We’d also like to see:

• Demonstrate practical experience of engineering best practices, while being obsessed with continuous improvement
• Have expertise in a set of the team’s domains, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems
• Able to work individually or with teams drawing on experience to recommend tooling and solutions aligning with organisational strategies. Influences organisation wide testing strategy
• Architects services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Guides teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design choices that minimise the cost of future changes
• Actively contributes to security designs based on the organisation’s security strategy. Fosters a security first mindset across teams, and leads by example. Has advanced knowledge of key security technologies, protocols & techniques (e.g. TLS, OAuth, Encryption, Networks)
• Be comfortable managing engineers ensuring they are tracking the team’s efficiency and quality of work, they assist in regularly adjusting processes and timelines to ensure high quality work is delivered
• Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to customers.
• Have played a role in the delivery of critical business applications and ideally customer facing applications.
• Have the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.
• Have an awareness and understanding of new technologies being used in finance and other industries and loves to experiment.
• Have a passion for being part of the engineering team that is forming the future of finance

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

You will have experience working with some of the following Methodologies/Technologies;

• Expert in the Software Development Lifecycle with both a Dev and Ops mindset
• Hands on development experience in at least one object-orientated language e.g. Java/C#, JavaScript, Golang.
• Deep understanding of containerisation and aware of container orchestration concepts, including hands on Docker experience
• Proven experience using one of Azure, GCP or AWS with a strong understanding of CSP networking and security features and services
• Great appreciation of DevOps and Infrastructure as a Code concept and techniques, including Terraform and CloudFormation
• Hands on experience of using scripting with Python, Groovy to build CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, CircleCI, GoCD
• Driven the implementation of DevOps solutions within a project or organisation, ensuring compliance with organisation standards and best practice
• Understanding of application and system monitoring tools with experience of auto-healing, autoscaling and predictive monitoring
• Experienced in Automation and Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet and Helm
• TDD or BDD understanding and how to enable and orchestrate the different types of tests required by the quality phase
• Experience of Kubernetes, Istio and knowledge of related tools (Kiali, Fortio etc)
• Wider Engineering technical expertise
• Ability to lead teams of engineers and manage technical product transformations

THE ROLE

We are looking for engineers who want to play a key part in supporting the evolution of the Financial Services industry one project at a time. You will be expected to be a strong team player who prides themselves on delivering modern, first class cloud based platforms through practicing best in class Agile ways of working at all times.

You will have experience working with some of the following Methodologies/Technologies;

• Expert in the Software Development Lifecycle with both a Dev and Ops mindset
• Hands on development experience in at least one object-orientated language e.g. Java/C#, JavaScript, Golang.
• Deep understanding of containerisation and aware of container orchestration concepts, including hands on Docker experience
• Proven experience using one of Azure, GCP or AWS with a strong understanding of CSP networking and security features and services
• Great appreciation of DevOps and Infrastructure as a Code concept and techniques, including Terraform and CloudFormation
• Hands on experience of using scripting with Python, Groovy to build CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, CircleCI, GoCD
• Driven the implementation of DevOps solutions within a project or organisation, ensuring compliance with organisation standards and best practice
• Understanding of application and system monitoring tools with experience of auto-healing, autoscaling and predictive monitoring
• Experienced in Automation and Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet and Helm
• TDD or BDD understanding and how to enable and orchestrate the different types of tests required by the quality phase
• Experience of Kubernetes, Istio and knowledge of related tools (Kiali, Fortio etc)
• Wider Engineering technical expertise
• Ability to lead teams of engineers and manage technical product transformation