IT Ops Engineer

You will operate and improve the production platform: monitor systems, manage security and incidents, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and coordinate releases across nodes. You will write and maintain system documentation, run tests and recovery exercises, engage with technology partners, and provide on‑call production support when needed.

Responsibilities

• Participate in daily IT operations such as monitoring, security management, change management and incident management
• Design and maintain a highly reliable and secure production environment including logging, monitoring and analytics
• Write and maintain documentation for the platform and supporting systems
• Maintain and enhance the Continuous Integration environment
• Coordinate rollout of new releases across all nodes of the Corda Business Network
• Develop and fix key components of the collateral exchange platform
• Investigate and resolve incidents
• Engage and collaborate with technology partners to improve the technology architecture
• Participate in threat modelling, audits, due diligence and vendor risk assessments
• Coordinate and participate in penetration tests and disaster recovery exercises
• Cover part of an on-call rota to provide production support

Requirements

• Master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field
• Up-to-date knowledge in networking, relational databases and security
• Solid grasp of modern DevSecOps practices including version control, continuous integration/delivery, GitOps and acceptance testing
• Significant hands-on experience in software development and operations
• Hands-on multiyear experience with Unix/Linux administration
• Experience with containerization including building, optimizing, managing and securing container images
• Experience with container orchestration and tooling such as Helm and Kubernetes; OpenShift and ArgoCD a plus
• Networking knowledge: TCP/IP, firewalls, load balancers, NAT, DNS and proxy configuration
• Security knowledge: certificate and key management, HSMs, PKI, TLS, VPNs, OIDC, vulnerability management and penetration testing
• PostgreSQL database administration experience including backup/restore and HA setups
• Automated management of environments using Ansible and Terraform; Azure experience a plus
• Testing experience: creating test plans and executing acceptance, performance, load and security tests
• Experience configuring and operating message brokers and streaming platforms (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka, RedPanda)
• Monitoring experience with stacks such as Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog
• Scripting skills in Python and shell
• Experience with JVM-based application stacks: building, packaging, deploying, tuning and monitoring
• Experience with git and incident management and incident response

Benefits

• An attractive and competitive benefits package
• Flexible work-from-home arrangements