Deployment Engineer

Ripjar specialises in the development of software and data products that help governments and organisations combat serious financial crime. Our technology is used to identify criminal activity such as money laundering and terrorist financing, enabling organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

We are a remote first team, with a head office based in Cheltenham. This position is open to UK wide candidates. If you are based near Cheltenham, you are more than welcome to work from our office at any time.

Ripjar’s Engineering team builds software products that make the world safer. We work together, mixing creativity with technology and engineering excellence to solve problems that nobody else can.

Our customers – including global financial institutions, corporations and technology companies – rely on our Screening product to monitor millions of client records, counter parties and prospects for sanctions, AML/CTF and other risks against billions of data points in near-real time.

Ripjar’s unique approach to name and adverse media screening – using AI Risk Profiles – provides our customers with world leading capability, recognised by Chartis as a Category Leader in KYC Solutions. We continue to innovate at pace the compliance sector, pioneering the responsible use of AI with our Screening Assistant.

We are seeking a Deployment Engineer to help deliver and operate our software platforms across customer environments.

In this role you will work with engineering and delivery teams to ensure Ripjar’s products can be deployed reliably, consistently, and efficiently. You will contribute to the tooling, automation, and processes used to package, deploy, and support our platforms across cloud and on-premise environments.

This role combines elements of deployment engineering, infrastructure automation, and operational support. It is well suited to engineers who enjoy working across infrastructure and applications, improving deployment workflows, and supporting complex distributed systems in production.

• Support the deployment and integration of Ripjar’sScreeningsoftware.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of deployment automation and tooling.
• Assist with packaging and releasing platform components forSaaS and enterprise deployments.
• Work with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and operational processes.
• Support environments used for development, testing, and production workloads.
• Investigate and resolve issues relating to deployment, configuration, and infrastructure.
• Develop scripts and tooling to automate operational and deployment tasks.
• Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to support successful customer implementations.

We are looking for engineers with strong technical fundamentals and experience working with software deployments and infrastructure.

• Supporting or implementing software deployments in production environments across cloud and on-premise.
• Working withCI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
• Administering Linux-based systems
• Experienced using Ansible
• Writing scripts or automation using
  
  Python, Bash, or similar languages
• Working withcloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Troubleshooting issues across infrastructure, configuration, and application layers.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to diagnose and resolve operational issues

• Container platforms such as Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-Codetools such as Terraform
• Data platforms such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch
• Messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
• Deploying or supporting distributed systems
• Supporting enterprise deployments

• Competitive base salary per year DOE
• Fully remote working
• 25 days annual leave + your birthday off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service
• 35 hour working week
• Flexible working hours
• Life assurance
• Company Share Scheme
• Private Family Healthcare
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Company contributions to your pension
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• The latest tech including a top of the range Mac Book Pro
• Offices equipped with well-stocked pantries with food, snacks and drinks when in the office