Senior DevOps Engineer

at  Freetrade

London
At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings, but for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach.
We’re here to change that.
We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives to help us on our mission to demystify investing. Our goal is to help our customers achieve better long-term financial outcomes.
In 2024, we’ll be focusing on making our business cash flow profitable. We’ll also be radically improving our product for our core customer base. In the UK, we now have over 1.6 million registered users, and we offer a range of products such as the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and UK Treasury bills.
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work in a newly formed Platform Team to manage our Google Cloud Platform, provide DevOps capabilities to the rest of the Engineering teams and help develop a FinOps culture in Freetrade.

You will…

• Own and manage our Google Cloud infrastructure, working with the engineering teams to ensure our services are deployed on the most appropriate cloud systems and make recommendations on appropriate technology choices.
• Own and manage our monitoring and diagnostics. You will work with the engineering teams to ensure we have best in class observability, alerting, SLOs and cost attribution for our software stack.
• Own and manage the CI/CD infrastructure for our products.
• Deliver against challenging technical problems, weighing trade-offs to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions quickly.
• Establish and maintain a high bar of best practice on FinOps, Infra as code, PaaS.
• Own and manage dashboards for tracking operational performance metrics of the platform, such as platform cost per user, per transaction, base costs.
• Influences team and engineering roadmaps and strategy
• Writes and maintains documentation on the developer operations and platform spaces.

About you:

• A track record of working with Google Cloud and cloud native technologies.
• Knowledge of containerisation using Docker and experience managing deployed services in Kubernetes clusters.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and experience of using Terraform or an equivalent.
• Knowledge of any scripting language (Javascript, Python, Ruby etc.) and experience of identifying and exploiting automation opportunities.
• Deep understanding and obsession with the details.
• A love for the world of investments.
• Up to date with technology to influence good practices.
• Experience of running platforms that deliver high performance at scale suitable for B2C products
• Experience of running highly resilient platforms, where reliability and graceful degradation is critical.

Benefits & Logistics
The application process consists of a four stage process. You will initially have a phone interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists, followed by a call with the hiring manager, technical interview a cultural and behavioural interview.
We offer a competitive salary plus stock options.
You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We’re very open about what we’re working on, and the best places
About Freetrade
Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. ‍ Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable. We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more. Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.
Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.
Our headquarters are based in London and we’re hiring.

Please refer the Job description for details