SteelEye is a fast growing FinTech company based in London, that offers a data platform to help financial institutions such as Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokerage Firms, Asset Management Firms to comply with financial regulations in the European Union.

The company has a highly experienced management team and a strong board, who have decades of technology and management experience and worked in senior positions at many leading international financial businesses.

We are looking to hire a seasoned SRE to join us as we start on our next phase of growth. We have a culture of openness, collaboration, and the passion to get things done whilst appreciating the importance of a good work life balance.

What you’ll do

• Develop and Maintain IAC using Terraform and Ansible
• Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
• Deploy code into test and production
• Deal with challenges associated with scale.
• Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
• Investigate application issues and remediate with long term solutions
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
• Thrive in an environment that uses Elasticsearch extensively.
• Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
• Champion best development practices and provide mentorship.

What we’re looking

Essential Skills

• An AWS Certified Engineer
• Coding experience in Python, Go and/or Rust etc.
• Operational experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Terraform exposure
• Ansible
• *nix and shell scripting

Desirable Skills:

• Security Principles
• Big Data
• Elasticsearch
• kafka
• Circle CI
• Packer
• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Challenges of scale
• Production support

Soft Skills

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.

We really care about our people as they are the heart and soul of the company. We offer 25 days annual leave, private medical cover, Company pension scheme and life insurance plus we host lots of social events and activities as well as charity events over the year. Our London office is based on the Strand in the heart of London and we have offices in New York, Bangalore, India and Braga, Portugal.

This role suits a Senior Engineer from a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer background who is real technologist and cloud specialist interested in the latest tooling and technologies that support software development and infrastructure.