DevOps Engineer, Zinc Work
£62k
Plus Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
2 days a week in office
Automated employee reference and background checking software
Posted today
Automated employee reference and background checking software
101-200 employees
Posted today
£62k
Plus Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To change the way people prove their work identity.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable working alongside the Platform Lead and happy to wear many hats with support
- This is a mid-to-senior level role, we care far more about the scope and depth of what you've owned and delivered than ticking a specific years-of-experience box, so don't rule yourself out if your path here has been non-traditional
- Wide ranging experience across the DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering space
- Adept at working with Typescript codebases, with a good understanding of YAML within the context of CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable working with containers and container orchestration (we run our platform on AWS ECS). Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling such as CircleCI is a strong plus
- Experience debugging and understanding performance issues within Javascript, with a good understanding of functional programming
- Experience with Terraform or comparable IaC tooling. Terraform and Terragrunt are both part of our current stack, so familiarity with Terragrunt specifically is a plus
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical team members
- Strong cloud skills, AWS is a preference given our stack, but we recognise the overlap with other cloud providers so candidates from different backgrounds are welcome to apply
What the job involves
- Zinc’s engineering team has grown continuously over the last few years and continues to scale, in order to maintain and support this growth within the engineering function we’re looking to grow the team in order to better support the platform as well as developers going forward
- As a result Zinc is now looking to add a dedicated DevOps engineer to maintain and extend Zinc’s Platform offerings as well as improving Developer experience within the organisation as we look to the future by revamping our architecture, CI pipelines and deployment strategy in order to enable us to scale the engineering function
- Working closely with the Platform Lead to understand the business and requirements, how the engineering team currently functions, and our current approach to the DevOps mindset within the company
- Targeting areas of the app to revamp and modernise, alongside the wider organisation, to help achieve the scalable architecture needed to hit company goals
- Developer Experience - defining new tools and policies to maintain and improve Developer Experience, whilst driving quality across the Engineering function
- Platform Architecture - collaborating with the Platform Lead to plan strategic improvements to the Zinc Platform, enabling the company's tech to scale alongside the customer base
- CI/CD - ensuring platform pipelines follow best practices, defining what "great" looks like across the tech stack, and maintaining the velocity the team achieves day-to-day
- ---What Success Looks Like 🏅---
- Shows curiosity about how Zinc operates and embeds within the wider engineering team, helping developers be the best they can be
- High levels of ownership and passion, driving quality within the organisation
- Working with the Platform Lead to plan and architect future revamps of the tech stack
- Proactive in solving engineering problems across a wide range of areas
- Reports directly to the Platform Lead, working closely day-to-day to shape and deliver the platform roadmap
- No on-call rotation for this role, and no plans to introduce one - the focus is on building resilient systems and processes that reduce the need for reactive firefighting in the first place
- Reporting To: Iliasu Oko-Osi
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The existing processes for referencing and background checking suffer from notable inefficiencies, marked by biases, time-consuming procedures, and an intimidating experience for candidates. Addressing these challenges, Zinc Work aims to solve these processes by introducing an automated reference and background-checking solution.
Setting itself apart in the market, Zinc Work focuses on the user-friendly design of its solution, its swift integration into existing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and its high level of customisation. With a vision to offer a solution for background checks, Zinc covers a spectrum from criminal record checks to financial, education, identity, employment, and reference checks.
Funding secured in 2023 was led by esteemed financial services investor AVP (AXA Venture Partners) and supported by Seedcamp, and will facilitate the launch of groundbreaking industry initiatives. These include the introduction of the first reusable global Right To Work check, the first Employment verification reference integrated with HMRC, and a background check template library collaboratively contributed to by over 40 Zinc Work customers. This financial injection underscored Zinc's commitment to innovation and reinforced its position as a trailblazer in the realm of automated reference and background checking solutions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
43% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"Team energy is great, there is lots of positivity and support. Because we only come in 2-3 days a week, when we are in everyone is engaged and happy..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$6.8m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$1.4m
SEED
Total funding: $8.7m
Company benefits
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- Apple laptop and latest tech gear for your home workstation
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company Retreat
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
Company values
- Empathy: Seeking to understand your perspective first
- Collaboration: We will work teogether to solve problems
- Empowered: Empowering candidates with information and data
- Speed: We will work to deliver at pace
- Integrity: We are truth seekers, providing transparent information
- Pragmatic: We're a solutions oriented team that seeks to solve
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Charlotte Lucy Hall
(Co-Founder)Previously a Marketing Manager at Superscript, Podcast Producer at Talent Hacks for Scaleups, and a Marketing Executive at ILTM.
Luke Shipley
(Co-Founder)Previously EMEA Head of Technology at Intelletec for 1 year. Has also co-founded stitch Leggings and Lean Lychee.
People progressing
He was a regular soldier in the Army, after leaving and studying he joined Zinc as an SDR (After a spell gold diving in FLorida). Having come in with no experience he has promoted fast through Zinc.
Tiasha joined Zinc way back in 2021, she highlighted that she wanted to work in Account Managment and has worked hard to make this career change happen.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zinc Work
- We currently do not record LGBTQIA+ status: our team is small, which means data is hard to anonymise.
- As of January 2024, 48% of the Zinc team are Ethnic Minorities.
- We offer flexible working for everyone from day one.
- Accommodations are available for everyone, regardless of status and never need to be justified: this is outlined in our DEI Statement which is accessible to all employees.
- We offer prayer space at our co-working offices, and flexible diary arrangements for employees to keep their faith.
- We’ve created a ‘Manual of Me’ page in our company Notion: to help foster understanding and allow team members to advocate for their communication style and work patterns.
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