Job title: Staff Devops Engineer

Department: TechOps

Reporting to: Samu Zadori

Location: United Kingdom

How you will make an impact

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Opensignal, you will play a pivotal role in driving the company’s cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline initiatives, ensuring that the expanding global operations run seamlessly across AWS and Google Cloud Platform. By working closely with cross-functional product teams, you will leverage your deep expertise to champion best practices, optimize code deployment processes, and enhance infrastructure efficiency while keeping costs in check. Your ability to design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab, and Circle CI, combined with your proficiency in scripting with Python, will streamline workflows and reduce deployment friction

Additionally, your strong background in Infrastructure as Code, particularly with Kubernetes and Terraform, will be instrumental in scaling Opensignal’s infrastructure. By implementing rigorous monitoring, alerting, and security measures, you will increase the observability, safety, and frequency of deployments, ensuring platform security aligns with industry standards and compliance requirements. Your proactive approach to problem-solving, combined with your leadership and mentoring capabilities, will elevate the technical standards and efficiency across the organization, making a lasting impact on Opensignal’s growth and success.

What will you be doing?

Opensignal is expanding at an ever-increasing rate across international markets. We have significant infrastructure in AWS as well as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and we’re in a strong position to embrace native Cloud capabilities across our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and DevOps workflows.

• You will work with our cross-functional product delivery teams - bringing your knowledge and expertise, championing development best practices and helping to build and configure environments to deploy code cleanly and efficiently across all environments.
• You will play a key role with continuous improvement to increase the efficiency of our CI/CD processes and the running of the infrastructure while also understanding and tracking the associated costs.
• You will be responsible for ensuring sufficient monitoring and alerting mechanisms that allow us to increase the observability of our systems and the safety and frequency of our deployments.
• You will build processes using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab or Circle CI and design and implement CI/CD pipelines
• You will create Python scripts and small apps to streamline the workflow of code to deploy - with the least friction from our infrastructure.
• You will be responsible for ensuring our platform security is in line with industry standards and best practices and meets compliance guidelines, including GDPR

We are looking for candidates with these experiences, skills and traits.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (we’re using Kubernetes and Terraform) and understand how it works at scale. The ideal candidate shares our passion as a deeply data-focused team who prides itself on process improvement, understanding the problem and implementing the best solution.
• This is a role focused on automation. Extensive experience scripting with Python or similar to automate complicated processes that integrate different systems and simplify workflows for the end user.Solid experience with automated Cloud deployment with multiple Cloud providers, as well as proven experience leading the design, development and evolution of large complex cloud deployments.
• Excellent understanding of Linux with a strong commercial background in its use in production environments.
• Experience working with network diagnosis tools to monitor and debug from within the terminal, and have the breadth of experience to troubleshoot most issues.
• Strong experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform, and be up to date with its best practises.
• A proactive problem solver, you calmly and efficiently debug, manage your own workload, support and mentor team members, and accurately prioritize requests from a wide range of users across different teams or parts of the business.
• Highly motivated to tackle complex organizational and technical problems and have the influencing skills to propose and champion bold solutions that span multiple teams and time-zones.
• Success as bar raiser for technical best practices and standards

About US

Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insight and data into network experience and market performance. Our user-centric approach allows communication providers to constantly improve their network and maximize commercial performance. Leading analysts, investors and financial institutions place a high value on our independent analysis and we are regular contributors to their reports.

Real network experience is our focus and ultimately that’s what influences customer choice. Our mission is to advance connectivity for all and here at Opensignal, the team is leading the industry in enabling operators to link their network experience and market performance in a way that has never before been possible.

With offices in London, Boston and Victoria, British Columbia, and Poland, we are truly global, with employees and contractors working across four continents and representing over 38 nationalities. We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.

Benefits

We believe we are stronger when we not only celebrate our many differences, values, and voices but include them in everyday practice. Having a diverse and inclusive culture is essential, which is why we offer a flexible approach to work-life balance, operating in a remote-hybrid way. We’ll help you get set up with the essentials you need to work from home or the office. We also offer an attractive range of additional benefits, including

• Competitive compensation packages including a long-term equity program
• Comprehensive group benefits package and company sponsored retirement savings plan (details depend on your country of work)
• Professional development opportunities: education reimbursement, learning allowance, company-sponsored workshops,and more!
• Generous holiday allowance, sick leave, parental leave, flexibility including Flex Fridays, and the opportunity to work from abroad
• Charity matching and paid time off for community volunteering and DE&I program/committees
• Regular virtual and in-person events and socials

Equal opportunities statement

We are an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, disability, national origin, gender and gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital and civil partnership status, veteran status or pregnancy or maternity.