DevOps Engineer, Octopus Investments
+Bonus + Share Incentive Plan
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Ethical Investments
Job no longer available
Ethical Investments
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+Bonus + Share Incentive Plan
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Octopus Group is a B Corp whose mission is to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will help change the world.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a talented and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our team
- ✅ Experience in a DevOps or similar role, with solid experience in Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) or similar CI/CD tools, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Azure cloud services (e.g., Virtual Machines, App Services, Azure DevOps)
- ✅ Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Kafka and Service Bus messaging systems and monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Splunk, or ELK stack)
- ✅ An understanding of containerisation concepts (Docker, container orchestration)
- ✅ Scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- ✅ Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, or Chef)
- ✅ Knowledge of security best practices
- ✅ Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities, with the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that
What the job involves
- Due to the size of our business and the team and the fast-paced working environment in which we operate you will have the ability to work with the latest technology in a role that offers lots of variety and exposure to multiple aspects of DevOps
- The team places a strong emphasis on continual learning and upskilling so you will benefit from having lots of support in your development and gaining certifications
- Part of a wider, agile Technology function (Octopus Labs), the DevOps team is a hands-on and passionate group of 3 highly dedicated, skilled engineers who support a wider Engineering function of 70 people based on and offshore
- Octopus Labs use the latest technology to build state of the art systems to support our business processes. Our team is constantly looking for new technologies, and people at all levels of the function are encouraged and expected to contribute with ideas on how we can improve our products
- We embrace diversity and have people from a wide range of backgrounds working both in the UK and from countries around the world
- Collaborating with development teams to streamline and automate software delivery processes
- Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
- Provision and management of cloud infrastructure using Terraform
- Configuring and managing Azure services (e.g., App Services, Virtual Machines, Databases)
- Monitoring and optimising application performance in the Azure cloud environment
- Participating in the design and implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of DevOps practices and tooling
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus is a group of companies investing in innovative ideas from various industries. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate, Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.
Across its financial services business, the company cares as much about the impact its investments have as it does about the returns it generates for its investors.
Since its inception, the company has grown significantly and has more than 3 million domestic customers and now actively operates in 18 countries.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
10 people
Jessica Bourdon-Pierre, Portfolio Manager
Insights
Company
Company benefits
- Critical Illness Cover & Death In Service
- Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Performance Bonus
- Share Incentive Plan
- Hybrid Working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
- Childcare Vouchers
- Sick pay
- 'Take what you need' Annual leave
- £3000 Bike to Work Scheme
- Employee Discount Portal
- Professional Development & Training
- Monthly 'Drink Up'
- The Greatest Christmas Party Ever
Company values
- Be Helpful: We like people who behave like it’s always day one and who remember that without our customers there is no business.
- Be Straightforward: We like people who have opinions and who express them in a way that’s respectful and easy to understand
- Be Bold: We like people who make decisions quickly and who are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Simon Rogerson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Octopus Investments for 20 years, first as Chief Executive and co-founder for 19 years and then as Executive Chairman for 1 year.
Chris Hulatt
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Manager at Mercury Asset Management for 2 years and Non Executive Director at ClearlySo for 4 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Investments
Daniel Chapman-Harris (Head of Learning & Development, Head of D&I Steering Group)
- 50/50 gender split across all senior leadership roles (currently 47% female / 53% male)
- 15% of managerial roles and above will be held by people from an ethnic background (Currently 8%)
- We partner with Black Young Professionals network, Investment 2020, Work180, Women in Finance, 10,000 Black Interns and more to promote D&I at Octopus and in the Investments industry
- We host events aimed at women in the financial services industry and how we can attract & support people in this space
- We host internal D&I events on how to support ethnic backgrounds in the workplace, Neurodiversity and more!
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