DevOps Engineer

Who we are.

Zilch is a payment tech company on a mission to create the most empowering way to pay for anything, anywhere. Combining the best of debit, credit and savings, we give our customers the option to earn instant cashback or spread the cost of pricier purchases, completely interest free and with no late fees. Pretty great, right? We’ve already done big things since launching in the UK in 2020. In our first 24 months, we gained a huge 3 million customers. And just 14 months into our journey, we earned double-unicorn status – the fastest company in Europe to do so bragging-not-bragging

There are some exciting projects coming up and we’ve got big growth plans. Want to join us?

We're looking for:

• Someone with bags of energy, is happy, passionate and loves coding
• An engineer who is wholehearted about writing awesome code that they can be proud of
• An enthusiast who lives and breathes software, and obsesses about quality

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Implement deployment pipelines to deliver microservices and front-end applications into development, staging and secure production cloud environments
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to implement security, resilience, and performance features
• Automate key technology processes to remove bottlenecks within our teams
• Continually improve our technology, our systems, our practices, and our knowledge

Key requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in Software Development industry
• 2+ years of proven expertise in DevOps
• Experience of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform or Ansible)
• Experience with Docker containers and Git
• Good programming experience in at least one high-level language (e.g., Java)
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, or other container orchestration tools
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems. Eg. MacOS, Ubuntu
• Strong understanding of application, system and network monitoring. Centralised metrics and logging. Eg, Cloudwatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
• Strong understanding of primary AWS services Eg. EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, IAM

Bonus skills:

• Experience managing and securing REST APIs using API gateways
• Good knowledge of SQL and caching solutions (e.g., Redis, Memcached)
• Linux experience with Bash scripting and shell programming
• Experience with content delivery networks (e.g., Amazon CloudFront)
• Experience of security practices and securing cloud applications
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud Platform

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• MyBenefit cafeteria/Multisport
• Home workstation setup bonus
• Share Options Scheme (only for permanent employees)
• Learning & Development - company support for professional qualifications and learning development
• Hybrid working (Mon, Weds, Thu in the office)
• Casual dress code
• Work related social events
• Free fruit, snacks, and refreshments in the office
• Branded merchandise