Golang Job: DevOps Engineer

About GMO GlobalSign

GlobalSign is the leading provider of trusted identity and security solutions enabling businesses, large enterprises, cloud service providers and IoT innovators around the world to secure online communications, manage millions of verified digital identities and automate authentication and encryption. Its high-scale PKI solutions support the billions of services, devices, people and things comprising the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit https://www.globalsign.com/en/company.

Summary of the role

The DevOps Engineers are responsible not only for the deployment of GlobalSign’s products and services, but also for ensuring their continued availability and security through use of best-practice automation and documentation. Working both with the Development squads and with the Infrastructure team, this role contributes to orchestration, deployment and maintenance tooling across GlobalSign’s industry-leading, high performance on-premise and cloud-based services.

Department: Infrastructure

Reporting into: Atlas Infrastructure Manager

Location: London

Nature of employment: Permanent

Contractual hours: 37.5 hours per week

Reports: This role does not have people management responsibilities.

Travel: Occasional <10% of time.

Flexible working: We are hybrid working and would consider remote working with occasional office visits or other flexible working arrangements as long as you permanently reside in England. However, this role will require visits to GlobalSign’s Data Centre in London, and will offer the opportunity to be part of an on-call rota.

Equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion: We are an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and inclusion and have a zero-tolerance approach towards bullying and harassment.

Right to work: For your application to be considered, you must have a current right to work in the UK.

Background checks: This is a Trusted Role which is defined as ‘being a role upon which the security of the Company’s security sensitive business is dependent’. As such, you will be required to undertake identity and background checks, including criminal record checks and qualifications, and periodic reviews of trustworthiness. You will also be required to immediately inform your line manager of any changes in your circumstances relevant to these checks.

Main job responsibilities and accountabilities

• Developing and maintaining scripts and tooling for managing the lifecycle of GlobalSign’s in-house developed on-prem and cloud-based architecture, including:
  • Managing deployments

  • Ensuring monitoring and logging are in place

  • Ensuring security best practices are followed

  • Automating of patching and update cycles where appropriate
• Working with the Infrastructure team to deliver tooling for managing shared systems (databases, build and deployment platforms, virtualisation/container management, etc).
• Working with the Development team to ensure that developers can contribute to the deployment pipeline tooling while following best practices throughout.
• Working with the Architecture team to advise on best practices and the pros and cons of components in proposed systems.
• Responsibility for complying with company policies and procedures, including but not limited to information security and acceptable use, and for undertaking mandatory in-house company training as required.
• Undertake other job responsibilities and accountabilities within the remit of the job role as and when these may arise.

Person specification

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience. Engineering or related discipline highly preferred.
• Proven experience scripting/development experience (Python, Golang, Ruby, Bash).
• Extensive experience with orchestration, automation and configuration management tools (chef/puppet, rundeck/ansible, Terraform).
• Experience building and running Continuous Integration pipelines for both on-premise and cloud-based architectures.
• Expert-level troubleshooting and system administration skills (Linux, FreeBSD).
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience with the following technologies:
  • Databases (SQL and/or NoSQL)

  • Networking (TCP/IP, subnetting/VLANs, firewalling and basic routing principles)

  • Message Queues (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Excellent communication, critical/analytic thinking, relationship building (internal and external stakeholders), and interpersonal skills.
• Strong technical documentation skills, with good attention to detail.
• Enthusiastic and go-getter attitude, driven.
• Ability to work in a multicultural team with members from all around the globe.
• Creative and innovative mindset.

One GlobalSign Way

Our employees are expected to fully embrace our ‘One GlobalSign Way’ and demonstrate the following behaviours daily in their job roles.

• Ownership - Be responsible and accountable for own job responsibilities, performance, conduct, learning, training, development, career progression and effective communication.
• Creativity - Challenge how things are done, suggest more effective and efficient ways of working, actively seek to improve customer service and product offering to both external and internal customers.
• Integrity - Behave ethically and morally by complying with Company rules, policies, processes, procedures, and governmental/governing body laws and regulations.
• Collaboration – Understand and demonstrate effective team working skills by working successfully within and across teams.
• Diversity (and inclusion) - Contribute to a dignified work environment by respecting and including others irrespective of age, culture, ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, belief, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, marriage/civil partnership and pregnancy/maternity.
• Waku Waku - Seek to be passionate and positive about GMO GlobalSign by aligning with the mission, vision, behaviours and objectives.

What we offer

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package including company profitability scheme, workplace pension, group income protection insurance, group private health insurance, group life insurance cover and much more.

Application process and deadline

If you meet the criteria listed above, found the nature of our business fascinating, and can demonstrate our One GlobalSign Way behaviours daily, then please apply for the role by sending us a cover letter along with your current CV/resume before 14th December 2022.

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