Description
Napier is a new breed of financial crime compliance technology specialist. Our AI enhanced platform – Napier Continuum – transforms compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge.
At Napier, our mission is to fight financial crime through automation & AI. We believe that by automating the detection and prevention of financial crime, we can make the world a safer place for everyone.
Collaboration, innovation and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to bring your career to Napier. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, creativity, and opportunity in everything we do.
After successfully securing a £45million investment to fuel our ongoing growth and to further invest in our AI products, we are currently building out our Tech Hub in Belfast - this is a super exciting time to join Napier in Belfast as we expand.
As a Platform Engineering (DevOps) at Napier, you will be a crucial part of our engineering team, responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure. You will work on building, automating, and managing our cloud-based infrastructure on Azure and then as we migrate to GCP, using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm, to support our powerful, flexible financial crime detection engine. Your role will also involve implementing CI/CD pipelines, managing Kafka clusters, and ensuring our systems are highly available and resilient.
You will be a key player in our Agile environment, collaborating closely with software engineers, data scientists, product owners, and other stakeholders to define and implement best practices for infrastructure and application delivery. Your expertise will help shape the future of Napier’s technical architecture and drive continuous improvement across our platform.
What you'll be doing: DevOps Engineer
- Infrastructure Automation:Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring alignment with best practices for infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Kubernetes Management:Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, implementing best practices for container orchestration, deployment, and monitoring.
- CI/CD Pipelines:Develop, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software delivery process, ensuring quick and reliable deployments.
- Cloud Management:Oversee deployments on Azure and/or GCP, ensuring cost-effective and high-performance cloud infrastructure.
- Kafka Administration:Manage and optimize Kafka clusters for real-time data processing, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Collaboration:Work closely with development teams to ensure smooth integration between development and operations, promoting DevOps best practices and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Monitoring & Alerting:Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Technical Leadership:Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a high-performance environment and ensuring adherence to best practices in DevOps and SRE
Do you have what it takes?
- 4-7 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a related role, with a strong focus on cloud-based microservices architecture.
- Proven experience with cloud platforms such as Azure and/or GCP, with relevant certifications being highly desirable.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including package management with Helm.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools and methodologies, including Trunk Based Development
- Proven track record in managing and optimizing Kafka clusters.
- Agile delivery experience, with a focus on continuous improvement and effective change implementation.
Skills:
- Strong Linux and BASH experience
- Proficiency in a programming language such as Python or Go.
- In-depth knowledge of containerization technologies, particularly Docker.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex functional and performance issues.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team.
- Familiarity with modern observability tools and techniques, including Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
- Azure or GCP certifications.
- Experience with additional technologies such as Keycloak, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL or ETL tools.
- Familiarity with performance engineering principles and tools.
- Strong interest in AI and Data Science, with a desire to learn and apply these in solving real-world problems.
Why Napier?
Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer the below benefits to all Naperians
- Group life assurance policy
- Income protections policy
- Access to our employee wellbeing programme
- An extra day off to celebrate your birthday
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
- An open and flexible culture that allows you to work in the best way for you
- Private health and dental insurance
We are compliance technology specialists. Our platform is founded on broad experience and deep expertise; and our products increase efficiency and minimise risk by successfully combining big data technologies with AI and machine learning. It all adds up to the world’s first truly intelligent compliance platform.
But tech is only half the story. Our intelligent approach is applied to underpin your policy, process and procedure, so you can focus on specific outcomes. The Napier platform is fast, scalable and easily configurable, as well as user-friendly. It rapidly strengthens your AML defences and trade compliance capabilities, while meeting your company’s compliance obligations and challenges in any sector.