The Role
At R3 our vision is a world where value moves freely, and business is done safely. Our mission is to enable an open, trusted, and enduring digital economy. We are a scale up with a startup’s grit. We encourage a workforce where no idea is too small, and no two days are the same.
R3's Professional Services team works to bring Corda specialist expertise to our customers to make their adoption successful. We engage directly with our customers to design, build, deploy and advise them on their Corda journey to ensure long-term capabilities are sustained. Through business consulting, technical solutions and implementation, we help customers achieve their goals most effectively for their business, owning projects ranging from small design POCs to full-end to end implementations for Digital Currencies and Digital Assets real-world problems.
Our customer-centric and innovative approach to providing services and solutions in the industry allows us to strategically assess our customer's needs and ensure they are set up for success from the beginning of their journey. In addition to working directly with our customers, we strive to collaborate internally with our Sales, Engineering and Product organizations to provide better tooling, services and products based on our customer's evolving needs.
Build your path with us while having fun. Excel your skills and make us better. Working with the mantra of good work equals more work, constantly looking to provide world-class customer service and continuously looking at ways to improve.
Role of DevOps Solutions Engineer
Your mission as a DevOps Solutions Engineer is to help our customers design highly scalable architectures and build resilient infrastructure using distributed systems. With commercial experience and a strong understanding of infrastructure as code, you will have the opportunity to expand our containerisation story using Docker and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Understand customer requirements and provide guidance on DevOps deployment strategies. Build new scripts based on customer requirements whilst leverage R3’s deployment templates. Help our customers with scalability, disaster recovery and maintainability of their solutions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management using tools like Terraform, Ansible, along with Helm charts.
- Build, test and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using industry-standard tools such as Jenkins, Docker, GitLab, or Cloud Provider Tools and Frameworks from Azure / AWS / GCP
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to build failures, deployment errors, and infrastructure problems in a timely manner.
- Deliver deployment strategy workshops with R3 customers to understand their bespoke infrastructure / application hosting requirements, platforms and tools.
- Ensure security best practices are implemented throughout the DevOps processes, including code scanning, vulnerability management, and access control.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and continuous improvement in our DevOps practices. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in DevOps and recommend new tools and methodologies to enhance our processes.
- Ensure all assigned work items are fully managed, taking accountability for delivery, scope, ensuring successful implementation in conjunction with the PS DevOps team leads.
Required Skills
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
- Strong experience in DevOps Tools like Terraform, Ansible, Helm to automate Infrastructure.
- Strong experience in Microservices driven deployment with Docker, Kubernetes and modern containerisation platforms.
- Cloud experience in Azure DevOps, AWS or Google Cloud. Experience with microservices architecture and serverless computing deployment with AKS / EKS / GKE.
- Proven experience with monitoring systems like DataDog, Prometheus.
- You must demonstrate proven experience in software development tasks, ideally in Kotlin, Java, or other JVM-based languages as Kotlin and Java development skills are required for the role.
- Basic understanding of configuring and running services in a Linux-based environment including proficiency in related scripting languages such as Python/YAML/BASH & standard Linux file editors (VI, VIM, EMACS).
- Familiarity with DevOps practices in regulated industries such as healthcare or finance.
Desired Skills:
- Kubernetes experience in a commercial enterprise product and thorough understanding of taking software to production.
- Understanding of DLT / Blockchain technologies and its benefits.
- Willingness to learn new skills and the ability to solve complex problems.
R3 is a leading enterprise technology firm specialising in digital solutions for regulated financial markets. Our technology enables financial markets to operate with greater efficiency, transparency and enhanced connectivity. Our focus is on progressing markets and fostering an open, trusted and enduring digital economy.
R3ers center around our core values – Collaborative, Ownership, Bold and Customer First – as a result our flagship DLT platform, Corda, and R3 Digital Markets product suite is trusted by the world’s leading financial market infrastructures (FMIs), exchanges, central banks and commercial banks.
R3 is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are a diverse and inclusive team that supports all ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, origins, disability and veteran status and cultures. At R3, we’re committed to fostering an environment where individuality–not conformity–is embraced and valued because we believe our collective differences are what make us better together. For more information, visit www.r3.com or connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
If you don’t meet all of the above criteria, but you think you’d be a great addition to R3, send us your CV/resume. We’re always interested in meeting bold, collaborative people who are excited to work with us.
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The Company
What We Do
R3 is a leading provider of enterprise technology and services that enable direct, digital collaboration in regulated industries where trust is critical. Multi-party solutions developed on our platforms harness the "Power of 3"—R3's trust technology, connected networks and regulated markets expertise—to drive market innovation and improve processes in banking, capital markets, global trade and insurance.
As one of the first companies to deliver both a private, distributed ledger technology (DLT) application platform and confidential computing technology, R3 empowers institutions to realize the full potential of trusted direct collaboration. We maintain one of the largest DLT production ecosystems in the world connecting over 400 institutions, including global systems integrators, cloud providers, technology firms, software vendors, corporates, regulators, and financial institutions from the public and private sectors. For more information, visit www.r3.com or connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
