Site Reliability Engineer, Vitesse
2-3 days a week in office
Financial infrastructure for insurance
Job no longer available
Financial infrastructure for insurance
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower the insurance ecosystem with a financial infrastructure that moves claims funds securely and in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps, Platform Engineer, or similar role
- Strong knowledge and experience in cloud platforms, substantial experience in Microsoft Azure is essential
- Proven track record in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and scalable systems
- Expertise in containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef for automation and configuration management
- Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure App Insights for proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of networking, security principles, and best practices in a cloud environment
- Demonstrated experience of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps for continuous integration and delivery
- Problem-solving mindset and meticulous attention to detail
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, handling incidents, and participating in on-call rotations
- Adaptability to evolving technologies and eagerness to learn new tools and methodologies
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will play an important role in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and tools necessary to support our software applications and services
- You will collaborate closely with the product engineering squads, technical operations, and security teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our platform
- Your responsibilities will include automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines, utilizing best practices and modern technologies to streamline processes and improve efficiency
- You will also be responsible for monitoring system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to enhance system reliability and performance
- Cloud Platform Management: Using Azure/AWS to manage and optimize infrastructure components, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost management
- Infrastructure Design and Implementation: Designing, building and maintaining the cloud-based infrastructure that supports our software applications and services
- System Reliability: Ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of systems and services by designing, implementing, and maintaining robust infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implementing and maintaining tools for automation, monitoring, and deployment to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
- Collaboration and Support: Working closely with product engineering to ensure efficient workflows and support continuous integration and delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
- Capacity Planning and Scalability: Assessing system capacity requirements and planning for future growth to ensure the system can scale and is cost efficient
- Incident Response and Management: Monitoring system health, promptly responding to incidents, and assisting with the resolution process
- Risk Management: Identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities in systems and implementing measures to mitigate these risks effectively
- Monitoring and Observability: Implement and oversee monitoring tools to proactively detect and mitigate issues, ensuring high application and system availability
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Maintaining documentation and sharing knowledge with the team to ensure transparency and facilitate cross-functional collaboration
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Vitesse is a payment business providing global payment services to a range of businesses. Operating on one of the largest domestic banking and payment networks in the world, Vitesse gives its customers direct access to over 180 countries' domestic payment networks and processes over $10B in transactions.
It's focused on serving customers in the insurance market by providing improved liquidity management and faster claims settlement. Insurance is the largest market in terms of revenue and the fastest growing, and as a result of Vitesse's success in the Lloyds of London market, the company has established itself as an industry leader.
Having closed successful funding rounds, the company aims to double its revenue in the coming years whilst also focusing on growing its team across London and Rotterdam and establishing a presence within the US market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$93m
SERIES C
Feb 2022
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127.9m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
- +1 Extra day annual leave per year
- Hybrid working
- Pension scheme
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Mental health Unlimited therapy
- 1 month sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Gym Subsidy
- Financial coaching
- 2 Days paid volunteering leave
- Learning & development
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Phillip McGriskin
(Founder & CEO)Prior to Founding Vitesse in 2016, Phillip spent nearly 5 years at Worldpay as a Chief Product Officer and Managing Director of Worldpay Features. Before that, they Founded Envoy Services where they served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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