DevOps Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Compensation: £90,000-£105,000 / year

TL;

DR: Kharon is seeking a full-time Dev Ops Engineer based in London, UK.

Location: London, UK

Annual Remuneration: £90,000-£105,000 and discretionary annual bonus

Pay Frequency: Monthly

Probationary Period: 180 days

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days per week

• Lead the design and evolution of cloud infrastructure supporting Kharon's high-performance SaaS applications, with a focus on API-driven, infrastructure-as-code control planes
• Build and continuously improve automation for infrastructure provisioning, developer tooling, and internal workflows to increase engineering velocity
• Monitor system health and capacity, proactively identifying limitations and alerting on potential production issues to uphold SLA commitments
• Embed security-first principles into infrastructure architecture, automation design, and day-to-day operations
• Design and maintain systems for operational administration, backup, disaster recovery, and performance/security monitoring
• Collaborate cross-functionally as a hands-on contributor - giving and receiving feedback openly, and adapting quickly to new tools and technologies

• 5+ years of experience in a Dev Ops, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering role
• Strong software development background, with deep expertise in at least one programming language
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred)
• Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation tooling (Open Tofu preferred)
• Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions and ArgoCD preferred)
• Solid understanding of monitoring, networking, and security, with depth in at least one area
• Strong command of Linux systems

• Experience managing high-availability, multi-AZ, and multi-region environments
• Experience architecting and building internal developer tooling
• Experience building observability tooling, dashboards, and alerting for application performance and stability
• Experience with distributed systems or microservice architecture

About Kharon

Kharon operates at the nexus of global security and is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.

From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today's leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.

When you look at any major global crisis event, we're providing intelligence that's at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that's meaningful. As the world continues to evolve in complexity, so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.

• Fully-sponsored private health insurance
• Pension plan with 3% employer contribution
• Annual leave plus bank holidays

DISCLOSURES

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