Junior DevOps Engineer

Connecting people to their family stories is special, and we're proud to deliver these magic moments. Through technology, data and insights, we bring people closer to their past to benefit their future.

We’re a fast-growing team of motivated individuals, and we’re passionate about delivering our product. We dedicate our time to solving meaningful, complex problems, and at Findmypast you can be a part of this magic. In this role, you can enjoy the agility of working in a scale-up in a place where every story matters.

As a remote-first organisation, Findmypast employees choose how and where in the UK they work best, whether that's from home or at one of our offices. Yet, we recognise the value of seeing each other in person from time to time. Our quarterly team meet-ups, social gatherings, and biannual company offsite events offer the perfect opportunities for collaborative work.

Reasons to join our engineering team:

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  We’re driven by the desire to create a fantastic customer experience

• We’re passionate about processing big data and to make it easy for our consumers to build their family journey
• We collaborate across teams, working in an Agile environment where we focus on individual development and a growth mindset
• We promote flexible working, including working from home, and we support each individual’s personal wellbeing
• We work in small teams, so that employees are develop in a supportive environment and test out their ideas, whilst having a direct impact on the business
• We’re promote professional development and wellbeing. This means you will have a mentor, a buddy, learn from colleagues, and be able to discuss new information and across teams

At Findmypast, you will receive:

• UK bank holidays, a generous allowance of 26 days holiday, with the opportunity to purchase 4 more
• Private medical insurance, health and dental cash plans
• Flexible working, including the opportunity to work from home

• Enhanced and shared maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Life assurance scheme
• Child tax credits

About the Role:

Your role in the DevOps team will be to enable engineering teams to deliver faster with tooling and operational support, maintain the production infrastructure, support as well as discovering and implementing innovative solutions to our technology stack.

Here’s what the role involves:

• You’ll be a member of a small multi-functional team who are responsible for the management of all infrastructure at Findmypast.
• Designing and documenting tooling, including writing and reviewing code, to provide self-service tools to the wider engineering team.
• Working closely with engineering teams to reduce toil and increase speed of delivery.

• Participating in an on-call rotation alongside the engineers who build our production backend.
• Maintaining multiple Kubernetes clusters

You'll also learn and discover new things along the way. We allow all engineers time out each day to focus on learning new skills or improving existing ones. On top of this, once a week we dedicate our time to “True North” work, investigating practical ways we can optimise the way the team operates.

Want to know a little more about our team? Check out our tech blog.

Requirements

About you:

Requirements:

• Have some experience with Linux and scripting (Bash).
• Experience with automation/configuration tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet or similar).

• Experience with alerting/monitoring systems like Prometheus, Grafana, Icinga.
• Desire to work in a highly collaborative environment.
• A drive to learn and improve existing skills.

Bonus points:

• Experience with container technologies, their configuration and management (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).

• Demonstrable coding skills in at least one programming language, and a desire to pick up more. Most of our services are written in JavaScript.
• Experience with version control systems e.g., GitHub or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD tools e.g., TeamCity or similar

If you said yes to these, and this all sounds appealing, then get in touch. This could be the start of something special.

What to expect next:

Our interview process moves fast and is as follows:

• An initial call with a member of our People Team (30 mins).
• Depth of expertise interview with two of our Engineers (one hour) covering engineering practices, values and approaches as well as architectural design through to scalability.

We don’t want our approach to hold anyone back, so if we need to tweak this for you, please just ask. Plus, we’d love to know your pronouns so please let us know when you apply.

We want Findmypast to be the best company for all our diverse employees and customers. If you’d like a deeper understanding of our commitment to diversity, check out our careers page to hear from our CEO, Tamsin.

Benefits

We're passionate about making FMP a great place to work and setting people up to succeed. Benefits include:

• 26 days holidays + UK bank holidays. We also offer the option to purchase up to 4 additional days.
• Excellent pension contribution from day one of up to 15.5% of your basic salary (9.5% matched company contribution with a 6% contribution from the employee's side).
• Flexible working, as we want all our employees to have a brilliant work-life balance.
• Enhanced and shared maternity/paternity/adoption leave.
• Learning & Development budget, access to LinkedIn Learning and training opportunities.
• Various social remote activities to keep connected as a company.
• Employee Assistance Programme, wellbeing app access and Mental Health First Aiders.
• Life assurance.
• Private medical insurance, health and dental cash plan options.
• Gym membership and staff discounts.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season travel tickets.
• BorrowMyDoggy subscription
• Subscriptions to Findmypast and British Newspaper Archive