Company Overview
Sliide is a mobile technology company that solves some of the most pressing challenges for mobile network operators and handset manufacturers globally.
Our digital products are used and loved by millions of people every month and drive billions of impressions to content producers and advertisers around the world.
Sliide is on a mission to help companies get more from the mobile economy. Our suite of mobile apps empower millions of users to unlock their essential device, and enable mobile carriers, handset manufacturers and app developers to engage, retain and maximise the value of their users.
We’ve more than tripled in size in the last 12 months and we have no intention of slowing down. We’re investing significantly in our existing product suite and we’re taking new and exciting products to market.
Role overview
We are looking for a DevOps engineer to join our technology team with experience building and scaling services in a cloud environment. You’ll be working as part of a small team of other DevOps engineers, whilst liaising with Android, Backend, Data Engineering, and Analytics team. Externally you will be in contact with our service management partners on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
You will establish configuration management, automate our infrastructure, implement continuous integration, and ensure that members of the technology team are up to speed with DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system.
You will be responsible for all Disaster Recovery and regular system maintenance, as well as performing or coordinating regular security audits, using internal and external resources.
You Will be responsible for enforcing and creating security best practices as well as devops knowledge hub.
Responsibilities
Working with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes in daily bases
Maintaining and improving AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and Packer
Maintaining and improving our CI/CD pipelines
Continuously increasing transparency of our systems through monitoring and alerting
Building and maintaining a highly available production environment while automating creation/destruction of other non production environments.
Own and deliver Disaster Recovery capabilities
Closely working with technical teams to implement and build automation solutions
Supporting applications hosted in an AWS cloud environment, including deployments, patches, security checks, and maintenance
Working with data team to create and maintain ETL jobs on Airflow
Skills required
BSc computer science or equivalent experience (min 2 year)
Passion for automation
Is a friendly, thoughtful person
Knowledge of ‘Infrastructure as Code’ such as Terraform
General scripting using bash, python, groovy, ruby
Experience of supporting applications, specifically GoLang, Java, Python
Understanding of of unix OS (e.g. Linux and MacOS)
Experience in Cloud platforms, Ideally with AWS and GCP
Working with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Understanding of databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL)
Experience in CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins or other
Ability to prioritise tickets, projects and multi tasking
Ability to to work in a quick paced environment
Experience with distributed systems
Decent knowledge of networks
Knowledge of ETL jobs
Familiarity of Big Data infrastructure/processes
Bonus points for
Familiarity with Android build processes is big plus
Experience with monitoring tools such as Logic Monitor and Lacework
Knowledge of automation tool such as Ansible
Knowledge of maintaining and deploying Elasticsearch
Package
Competitive salary + EMI share options
Benefits
25 days of holiday + bank holidays
up to 8% company pension contribution
Flexible working
Buzzing London office with a vibrant culture and well-stocked snack cupboards and drinks fridge
Working with a passionate team who love to learn and implement new technologies
Flat structure with plenty of exposure to the senior leadership team
Weekly company fitness sessions
Cycle to Work Scheme
Access to wellness venues and apps (via Gympass)
Private Health Insurance (with 24/7 Digital GP)
Budget for learning resources, courses and conferences
Regular all-company socials
Free haircuts in the office
Equal Opportunity
We are hugely committed to equality of opportunity. We employ many nationalities and think it's extremely important to have both genders represented in all functions and levels. All individuals will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of age, disability, gender, pregnancy and maternity, marital status, race, religion or sexual orientation.
