DevOps Engineer

Gatekeeper is a SaaS-based, next-generation Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) & Third Party Lifecycle Management (TPRM) Solution. We help our customers to reduce risk, improve compliance and maximise value from their signed agreements and vendors.

Gatekeeper has consistently achieved significant, profitable growth YoY with long-term customers including Ford, Accor, Roche, Telegraph, Autotrader, Tesco and Pokemon. 

Due to our strong global growth, we are looking for an ambitious DevOps Engineer to help build best-in-class infrastructure with related performance and security monitoring - supporting our industry-leading contract and vendor management platform.

Note: This is a fully remote position and can be based anywhere in the UK/Europe

In this role you will:

• Work in a cross-functional agile team to lead system design and deployment activities

• Provide solutions across a number of domains including monitoring, performance and CI/CD tooling

• Bring in the new and latest technologies and techniques while driving their adoption where appropriate

• Participate in engineering chapter discussions to inform infrastructure requirements to solve complex business cases

• Develop and maintain all supporting infrastructure and operational documentation

• Be aware of and manage possible security issues including ownership of penetration testing

• Drive cost reduction activities through service optimisations

• Improve monitoring and application performance

About you

• Are you comfortable in a fast-paced, agile environment, managing multiple initiatives simultaneously?

• Are you a natural team player and lifelong learner?

• Are you empathetic, with attention to detail and an eye for problem-solving?

If this sounds like you, then please read on….

• 5+ years in a similar DevOps or Cloud Engineer role.

• Deep experience administering Linux systems including modern best practices in server security

• Experience in building  continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines

• Experience with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation, Ansible/Chef/etc.)

• Docker

• VPN server management

• Experience with security systems is a plus: IDS/IPS

• Experience with core AWS platform architecture specific with SaaS solutions

  • Strong knowledge and track record of building and maintaining production systems on AWS using EC2, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, Elastic Beanstalk, Codedeploy

  • Strong knowledge and track record of managing application monitoring: AWS monitoring/alerts, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana

  • In-build tools to manage performance (auto-scaling etc)

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer desirable

• Experience with: ElasticSearch, Postgresql, Redis, Mandrill, Google Cloud

• Experience with supporting Ruby/Rails stack: rvm, Nginx&Puma, Sidekiq, Git, Capistrano. Ruby/Rails coding experience is advantageous

• Excellent English and communication skills

• Great sense of humour and a positive and collaborative attitude

Do not apply for this job if:

• You are not fanatically focused solving customer problems 

• You ever consider mediocrity acceptable

• You need to be told what to do

• You want to be the smartest person in the (virtual) room

• Don’t like working with the best and learning something new

• You have an ego bigger than your sense of humour

• Generous remuneration

• Flexible working hours: design your work schedule to match your lifestyle

• 100% remote working: live and work wherever you like - no more commutes

• Generous holiday policy

• Monthly healthy and wellbeing perk to cover health/dental insurance

• Learning & Development opportunities for lifelong learners

• Technology: we provide everything you need to do your best work

• Gatekeeper for Good: Match funding to support non-profit organisations in your local community

• Gatekeeper retreats

We live by our company vision and values. If these ring true to you, then we’d like to talk to you.

Gatekeeper offers a diverse and multicultural working environment, currently spanning 15 countries. We respect each other’s differences and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

A market-leading product, a skilled and supportive team and distinctive values make Gatekeeper a uniquely rewarding place to work. 

We’re proud of the company we’re building and we’d love for you to be part of it.