Site Reliability Engineer, Global Screening Services
1-5 days a week in office
Compliance & screening solution for financial institutions
Open for applications
Compliance & screening solution for financial institutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
1-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve industry-wide challenges in the financial services sector.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years’ experience within a production, SaaS company (preferably event-driven)
- Be a self-starter that relishes responsibility. Take strategic direction and own end to end delivery of solutions
- Expert knowledge of SRE fundamentals and a commitment to best practice
- Fluency with common observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL and Cloudwatch
- Experience analysing and building data telemetry, querying (PromQL), modelling, pipelines and dashboards to provide concise, focused insights and alerts for distributed systems
- Strong experience with Python and/or GoLang
- Java (SpringBoot and Micrometer) useful
- Demonstrable experience working with AWS services like SQS, EKS, RDS, VPC, EC2, Cloudwatch (X-Ray, Metrics and Logs), Lambda
- Solid knowledge of Linux systems and bash scripting
- Strong knowledge of networking and common protocols (TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP)
- Experience with DevOps principles and tooling such as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Knowledge of stream processing technologies like Kafka would be useful
- Experience working with ITSM systems like JSM, Zendesk or ServiceNow
- Experience building/maintaining automated incident management workflows
- Experience developing with containers and container orchestration (Docker & Kubernetes)
- Working knowledge and experience with Agile software development practices
- Strong communication, collaboration and documentation skills with proven experience working cross-functionally
- Ability to think about distributed systems in terms of failure modes and bottlenecks
- BSc/MSc in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- Financial Services experience (or similar regulated industry) a bonus, but not essential
- Experience participating in Incident Response
What the job involves
- This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Operations team managing Kubernetes clusters in Production and, through a DevOps culture, empower development teams with observability insights they can use to innovate faster
- We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer, or production experienced DevOps Engineer, who has working experience building observability for cloud native SaaS products and driving operational excellence
- You will be responsible for delivering our monitoring infrastructure, shaping observability, and responding to incidents as well as ensuring the platform is performant and reliable
- You will be a key member of the team, liaising with product teams, embedding SRE principles and building the observability platform for the next stage of growth at GSS
- You will have direct input into the direction of Technical Operations, solving problems, supporting developers and optimising the platform through code
- Leveraging core SRE values - measuring (SLI/SLO/SLA), testing, and eliminating toil via automation with appropriate Disaster Recovery planning
- Refining KPIs to enable data-driven decision making for availability and reliability
- Proactively analysing monitoring data to ensure production services are running optimally and cost-efficiently
- Proactively tracking capacity, quotas and other performance indicators to plan for growth
- Working with development teams to ensure new features are maintainable, have well defined SLIs, achievable SLOs, are properly monitored, and evaluated for failure scenarios
- Enabling development teams through DevOps culture and the effective use of observability tools. Promote best practice, present KT sessions, help troubleshoot and resolve business affecting issues
- Building on our existing monitoring tools to deliver a comprehensive, optimised observability platform for logging, metrics and tracing to ensure suitable alerting scope
- Writing maintainable code to augment operations, scaling, resilience and observability
- Debugging production issues, mitigating swiftly and preventing reoccurrence
- Maintaining runbooks for manual tasks and replacing those runbooks with automation wherever viable
- Supporting junior members of the team to adopt best practice
- Participating in 24x7 on-call rotation, incident response, escalation, RCA and blameless post-mortems
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The regtech industry, already worth billions, is expected to scale as businesses respond to the growing dynamism of compliance regulation updates. Regtech company Global Screening Services (GSS), established in 2021, helps to enhance compliance and screening processes for financial institutions, with a focus on sanctions screening.
The company's platform takes data provided by its users and returns an alert if there is a match against a sanctions list. What makes GSS stand out is that it also cultivates a community network through which industry players can share and access knowledge, thereby helping to transform how financial crime is addressed.
The company’s leadership team boasts over 100 years of combined industry experience, meaning that GSS is well-positioned to help redefine compliance for the sector. Recent and substantial funding marks the company's transition from development to operational mode, gearing up to go live with its initial clients and expand its global presence.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$47m
SERIES A
Jan 2023
$45m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $92m
Company benefits
- Generous ESOP
- Generous pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Employee assistance programme and holistic wellbeing support
- Bonus scheme
- Flexible hybrid working
- Work elsewhere for up to one month each year
- Quarterly company wide socials
- Opportunities for progression
- Life assurance
- Virtual GP
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Tom Scampion
(CEO)Previously Managing Director at Alix Partners and Partner at Deloitte.
John Cusack
(Chair of the Board)Also Chairperson for Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and Editor In Chief at Financial Crime News.
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