Graduate DevSecOps Engineer
Location: London Salary: £50,000 per annum
About Elwood
Elwood Technologies is a FCA regulated firm that provides end-to-end digital asset Execution Management, and Risk Management Software to institutional clients. We are now looking for a Graduate DevSecOps Engineer to support growth in our infrastructure team.
Job Description
We're hiring a Graduate DevSecOps Engineer to join our Engineering team in London. In this role, you will be building and operating the platform our systems rely on, and embedding security controls directly into how it's built and run. You'll design and ship infrastructure, automate its security, and own it end to end through to production and incident response. You'll work alongside engineering teams across Elwood and deal directly with external suppliers and auditors on security and compliance matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Support cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS
- Maintain Kubernetes, NATS, Kafka clusters
- Improve and secure CI/CD pipelines
- Design and implement security controls as code
- Build and run continuous security monitoring
- Contribute to Developer Experience (DevEx) tooling and workflows
- Own vulnerability management
- Respond to security incidents
- Review architecture and design changes from both operational and a security perspective
- Produce and maintain evidence supporting audit and compliance controls
- Build platform capabilities, including but not limited to modules and reusable workflows
- Leverage AI infrastructure to support development, maintenance and operation of the platform
- Improve observability: metrics, logs, traces and use it to make capacity, performance, and reliability decisions
- Operate and evolve the SIEM
- Contribute to FinOps: cloud cost tracking, committed use and right-sizing
Qualifications / Knowledge
- Recent graduate in BSc/MSc in Computer science or computer engineering
- Passionate about software engineering and about delivering a quality product
- Good understanding of DevOps, SecOps and the intersection of both, and eagerness to progress in this area
- Solid grounding in cybersecurity fundamentals: identity, cryptography, network security, common attack patterns, and detection engineering
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and other automation tools
- Good understanding of Linux systems
- Collaborative, enthusiastic, and excellent communication skills
- Previous experience in a similar internship an advantage
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A true interest in crypto/digital assets space
What we offer:
💵 Competitive salary and compensation packages
🍎 Fully paid medical and discounted dental schemes for employees and their family
✈️ Generous time off + bank holidays
🍼 Enhanced parental leave for all employees who have been with the company for one (1) year
🍔 Fully stocked kitchen and access to Ubereats
💪 Discounted gym scheme with Fitness First
🐕 Employee Assistance Programme
📚 Paid study leave and personal leave
Why Elwood?
- Join a FinTech startup with tier 1 institutional backing and a strong market presence.
- Help shape the future of finance - our platform is enabling institutional access to digital assets.
- Work with a modern technology stack and help solve complex problems.
- Strong client focused team with a diverse background.
- We’re a Global company and have modern offices based centrally in London, New York and Singapore.
