DevOps Engineer

Yellowbrick Data is a modern cloud Data Platform start-up headquartered in Silicon Valley. We are a flexible Kubernetes cloud-native product used by big name global enterprise customers. Yellowbrick is used by the world’s largest insurers, credit card companies, telcos and healthcare firms, all of whom depend on us to make critical decisions quickly without compromising the security of their data. Yellowbrick is well-funded with $248m raised from top-tier venture firms.  

 
Job Overview:  
Join our software development team, starting as a DevOps specialist, where you’ll drive cloud native best practices across our software development and deployment pipelines. Reporting to Gabriel, our Senior Manager of Platform Engineering and Quality, we’re offering an extensive opportunity to grow your skills, learn and innovate by trying different things as you start your career. We build fully elastic, scale-out stateful database software and have a unique deployment model that ships across a multitude of public cloud platforms, private cloud platforms and traditional on-premises infrastructure. We fully embrace the use of containerisation and Kubernetes, and even have an internal private cloud platform we built from scratch. We’re continually automating and improving our processes to release our products as efficiently and reliably as possible while pushing quality forward 
 
If this job’s for you – you're early in your career, wanting to grow your skills and quite interested to learn how products are built and shipped. You jump at the opportunity to master new technologies and keep up to date. You take initiative to, and get satisfaction from, helping others, and have a bias for action with a “can-do” attitude. You’re a clear communicator and want to raise your visibility within the organisation and across management by having a positive impact on how everyone works and ultimately our customer satisfaction. You’re analytical in nature and inherently love measuring, generating and working with data. 

We’re based just off Trafalgar Square in the heart of London, and typically work from the office three days a week. We have great benefits, flexible vacations and an exceptionally talented engineer crew to learn from. 

Responsibilities:  

• Design, develop, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support the building, testing, deploying,  
  and monitoring of our product. 

• Ensure scalability and reliability of our CI/CD, working to drive improvements in reliability of the underlying infrastructure and platform. 

• Automate and optimize workflows to streamline software development processes  

• Help and train developers to implement best practices and improve their skills in build and CI. 

• Define and implement best practices for software development and automated testing 

• Actively participate in addressing issues, outages, and deploying new solutions in a hands-on  
  manner 

• Define and track automated metrics to track the health and productivity of our pipelines and infrastructure, as well as pushing a data driven approach to development and test based on structured reports and insights you help develop. 
     

Qualifications: 
 

• 2-6 years of experience in the build or DevOps space (test experience also a plus) 

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Ansible etc 

• In-depth proficiency with git and CI tools such as Jenkins, Argo, Harness, GitLab etc. 

• Ability to work with build tools and make basic changes across multiple languages e.g.  
  Make/CMake(C/C++), Maven (java), Yarn (Node), etc 

• Strong programming skills (python primarily, but additional languages a plus) 

• Strong linux administration skills and a working knowledge of Windows and Mac. 

• Experience with observability tools 

• A working knowledge of SQL and databases 

• Knowledge of security practices