DevOps Manager

London – White City

• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?  
• Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience working in the embedded payments space?
• Do you want to have the opportunity to lead a team responsible for building best-in-class payments products?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent to join Modulr, the fastest growing payments business in the UK and Europe, and are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent. The Head of Product, Payments is a new role within our Product leadership team and will play a critical role in shaping our Product function as we scale.

About Us

At Modulr our mission is to move money efficiently to power business productivity. We are building a new digital payments service to make money flow more efficiently through businesses and the economy. This is a new type of payments account that is built for businesses that need faster, easier and more reliable ways to move money.

Our flexible platform and innovate approach allows our customers to utilise our payments account instead of a traditional bank account. Our accounts come with a sort code and account number, access to payment systems (eg Faster Payments and Visa) and everything our customers need from a payments account. They can instantly open as many accounts as they need, automate how they make and receive payments as well as the reconciliation processes these create. All in real time, 24/7 through their own systems utilising our API that integrates into any platform.

Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by payments giants PayPal Ventures and FIS Ventures, as well as startup and scale up specialists Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog and Highland Europe which enables us to leverage their resources and expertise to drive our growth initiatives. These partnerships provide us with the necessary provisions to propel our business to new heights.

Modulr values

• Building the extraordinary and going that extra mile
• Owning the opportunity, be passionate and proud of the time you invest
• Move at pace, reach your goals faster with us supporting you each step of the way
• Achieve it together, working as a team and being Modulite

The Role

As a Platform Manager, you’ll lead a team of platform engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating Modulr’s underlying infrastructure estate as well as the continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline to build, package, and deploy products. You will be responsible for overseeing the day to day running of the platform and leading your team to manage and automate repetitive processes for development teams. You will have the opportunity to grow a talented team and continuously improve your platform to help achieve its goals.

The Team

In order to achieve our mission the team is made up of approximitely 10 engineers with a range of skills and experience which complement each other. We believe that in order to work most effectively in such a varied and ever changing technical landscape we need multidisciplinary people who are keen to learn and to lean on each other. Alongside technical delivery we also hold an evangelical role where we champion best practice and empowerment in our development teams. 

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented platform engineers.
• Build new, and enhance existing, CI/CD frameworks to achieve our goal of enabling every developer to deploy to production at least once a day.
• Create and manage extensible and flexible version and configuration management processes for multiple concurrent development, integration, test, and production environments.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement tools and technologies to drive automation and optimisation of version control, configuration management and CI/CD processes.
• Define and implement processes to track, update, and modify multiple dev/test environments, including the ability to create new ones quickly or remove unused ones.
• Drive adoption of standardised processes to identify, implement, and track key metrics for visibility.
• Recruit, develop, and retain talent to ensure the team has the skills and capabilities to meet business goals.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements, propose changes, and gain alignment to drive continuous improvement.
• Manage on-call participation and oversee the quality of the service you provide.
• Create infrastructure and products that promote and enforce high reliability.

About you

You’ll be part of an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and above all passionate team. We would like you to display these same attributes and display proven knowledge of how you embed the principles of DevOps and SRE into everything you do. You'll thrive here when working on problems from identification to resolution and looking to automate to solve any recurring tasks or issues. You’re comfortable working in a scaling business, where time is critical, and things change on a regular basis.

You enjoy positively challenging the way things are done and want to join a business that is focused on constantly improving. You have well thought-out opinions about how technologies and toolsets can be used to create elegant solutions and are happy sharing these. You care about the quality and integrity of the outputs from your team and want to work with people who care. You can find the right balance of speed and accuracy when prioritising and take responsibility for seeing things through to a high standard. Above all we value passion and integrity, knowledge can be gained, tools learned, passion can’t be read and integrity can’t be certified.

Skills & Experience

• Previous experience managing multi-site technical teams in an agile environment.
• Previous experience guiding and motivating teams to foster a collaborative environment and facilitated the resolution of conflicts.
• Previous experience managing software development projects, ensuring they were completed in a timely manner, and met quality standards.
• Provided individual mentoring and coaching to team members for career development and skill improvement.
• Extensive experience in platform development and configuration management.
• Previous experience with CI/CD pipelines, tools and infrastructures for applications.
• Previous experience with software configuration management (SCM) environments for multiple parallel development efforts and complex branching strategies.
• Previous experience managing complex development, test, integration, and production environments with different versions, building new environments, and providing support for existing ones.
• Experience scripting to automate repetitive processes including creating build scripts.
• Experience with repositories like GitHub, BitBucket, and Google Cloud Source Repositories.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like TeamCity, Jenkins and Octopus, Ansible or GitLab.
• Understanding of, and experience with, container builds using Docker.
• Cloud experience, specifically working with AWS (preferred) or GCP.
• Experience of working with diverse teams across wide geographical regions, both UK and India.

What can Modulr offer you

You’ll be part of a cross disciplinary team(s), with co-workers located in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and/or India. We are friendly and sociable, challenging but rewarding. We want you to push yourself and for us to support you in your future as we scale up and grow. Our culture and values are putting you first and are about investing in your future.

• Share Options Incentive Scheme
• Company Bonus - the more successful we are together, the more company bonus we offer
• Flexible benefits - £1000 to spend on a variety of benefits for you to choose from which suit your lifestyle and needs
• Perkbox - enjoy freebies and discounts on many other products and services
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) + your birthday off - choose which days you take off to relax and/or spend time with loved ones
• Learning Opportunities – on joining Modulr you will embark on our 3-day onboarding programme, called ModStart, to be equipped with the Modulr know-how and arm you with the tools you need to be successful from day 1! But, we don’t want your learning to stop there so we will continue to provide you with the tools and capabilities through our learning channels, platforms and Buddy allocation to allow you to grow and develop in Modulr.
• Modulr All hands - join your colleaguesfor our company wide events throughout the year
• Great workspace - Modulr thrives on innovation which is best done through in-person collaboration. This approach enables us to work together closely, exchange ideas, and create innovative solutions that drive our success. We ask our team members to be based in the office 4 or more days a week. We have state of the art offices located in WeWork in Edinburgh, ScaleSpace in London, and WeWork in Amsterdam.
• Bike to work scheme

ModInclusion 

We believe that by seeing Modulr, and the world, from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all.​ We want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your identity, age, ability, and background — are things that we will always celebrate and support with open arms.  As such, we are keen to maximise the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone.

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