Senior DevOps Engineer (3501)

Description
***Must be based in Eastern or Central Time Zone***

***Must be US Citizen***

About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global digital identity. We combine our powerful technology, the most accurate data coverage, and our talented team to deliver award-winning location intelligence, identity verification, and fraud prevention solutions.

With over 30 years’ of experience, we bring together a team of over 1,250 dedicated experts with local industry insight from around the world to make it easy for businesses to identify and verify customers and locations, protecting everyone, everywhere from fraud.

Why you should be@GBG

We make the world a safer place
We trust each other and win together
We are local experts in a global business
We want you to be yourself
We grow when you grow

The Team

GBG’s Identity documents & biometrics verification solutions deliver definitive identity proofing. They allow our customers to securely onboard their own customers with trust and confidence, achieved via biometric protection from a certified digital identity service provider. You will work within one of our Documents and Biometrics squads, committed to design and development of industry leading software and applications.

The Role

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for deploying software & product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet our customers’ needs. Primarily this means building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure within the AWS platform, working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes, including design an implementation of policies and procedures for managing Kubernetes clusters.

What you will do

Work with software engineering teams and build/update the infrastructure automation and deployment process
Managing releases, promotions, and deployments of software and services across multiple environments.
Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability in production systems.
Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring.
Design and implement Cloud-based solutions that meet the needs of our business.
Develop and implement policies and procedures for managing Kubernetes clusters.
Gathering requirements to learn what build or monitoring jobs are needed.
Research complex subjects and provides expert guidance.
Ability to manage time effectively and work both independently and as part of a team.
Makes pragmatic design decisions identifying risks, trade-offs, and alternatives.
Analyzes existing processes/technologies and makes recommendations for improvement.
Provides coaching and mentorship and acts as a resource to other engineers.
Participates in on-call rotation

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

Experienced as a Senior DevOps Engineer
Extensive experience in AWS Cloud platform
Experience in microservices led environment utilising Kubernetes (EKS)
Containerisation (Docker)
Proficient with CI/CD Pipeline tools, Jenkins is what we use
Development experience using CloudFormation for IaC
Scripting e.g. Powershell, Python, Linux shell, Groovy
Good knowledge of Observability Systems such as ELK, New Relic, Zabbix
Working experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and frameworks
Working knowledge of databases and SQL

Benefits
To find out more

We have a vision to have the best and most engaged team members in the industry. People matter at GBG, they make us who we are. Every team member across all our locations makes a difference, everyone has something to contribute. Maybe you too could make a difference.

As part of our commitment to our team and flexible working approach, we have created a Work When and Where You Want Policy to give our team members choice and empowerment, and to support a balance in work and home life. Please ask your Talent Attraction Specialist for more information on this and our Family Friendly policy if you want to find out more!

Next steps

If you’re interested, please apply! We’re looking to hire the best and most engaged people into our business and we’ll make an offer once we’ve found that person.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch.

Make life@GBG work for you.

Diversity & Inclusivity:

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Specialist if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.