Senior DevOps Engineer - Release Engineering

Matillion is The Data Productivity Cloud.

We are on a mission to power the data productivity of our customers and the world, by helping teams get data business ready, faster. Our technology allows customers to load, transform, sync and orchestrate their data. 

We are looking for passionate, high-integrity individuals to help us scale up our growing business. Together, we can make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves.

With offices in the UK, US and Spain, we are now thrilled to announce the opening of our new office in Hyderabad, India. This marks an exciting milestone in our global expansion, and we are now looking for talented professionals to join us as part of our founding team.

Role Purpose

Matillion is built around small development teams with responsibility for specific themes and initiatives. We are now looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work in our Release Engineering team. This role is based in Hyderabad in India. How do you release updates and changes to Matillion's platform that makes the world's data useful without users ever noticing a glitch in service?

Our Release Engineering team is part of Matillion’s Internal Engineering Platform organization and takes on this very challenge. As a member of the team, you work with Software Engineers to ensure our services and products seamlessly move from development all the way through to production. This requires scripting and coding with an eye toward scalability so that big deployments can be broken down and distributed across regions. Using your leadership and technical expertise, you will design and implement complex application releases processes and tooling. You will serve as a subject matter expert in areas such as source control, build, branching, continuous integration, test infrastructure, release configuration, deployment, and general release best practices.

Our Release Engineering advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Matillion. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Matillion to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems

• Release Engineering
• Self-Service Model - Develop tools that allow our product development teams to control and run their own release processes. 
• Ensure our builds are hermetic - insensitive to the libraries and other installed software.
• Governance and enforcement of policies and procedures around changes, releases, etc.
• Design and implement tools and processes that drive high velocity in our code deployments.
• Improve our tools for continuous integration, automated testing, and release management.
• Design and develop tools and processes to manage configuration.
• Design and develop code that glues together various applications in our CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain the build process to support ongoing Research and Development.
• Perform administration, troubleshooting, and provide support to all engineers.

• Develop new skills by working with other members of the team
• Work with the Team Lead and Manager to identify training goals
• Partake in technical discussions within the team
• Actively identify and complete opportunities for self-training and external training
• Drive the team’s process of continual improvement

• Essential Skills
• 5+ years of experience with DevOps and/or SRE
• Experience with code signing and build management tools (Gradle, Maven, ant etc).
• Experience with multiple CI/CD tools (preferably, CircleCI), systems and processes.
• Familiarity with software configuration management systems and source code version control systems (specifically, GitHub)
• Metrics driven: you are proficient in measuring success, value and gaps.
• A strong background in software engineering and release engineering, with coding experience in one or more of the following languages/libraries/platforms: Java, Groovy, JavaScript/Typescript, NodeJS, Python, Go, AWS, Docker, Serverless, React, Terraform

• Inquisitiveness- digging into problems and solutions to understand the underlying technology
• Autonomy - ability to work on a task and solve problems independently 
• Motivation - sets personal challenges and constantly looking to stretch themselves
• Problem solving - recognition of problems and recasting difficult-to-solve problems in order to find unique and innovative solutions
• Integrity - honest and transparent in dealing, open to voice and accept criticism, is trustworthy and builds credibility through actions
• Detail focussed - pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects
• Big picture aware - understands the scope and impact of a problem or solution

Matillion has fostered a culture that is collaborative, fast-paced, ambitious, and transparent, and an environment where people genuinely care about their colleagues and communities. 

Our 6 core values guide how we work together and with our customers and partners. We operate a truly flexible and hybrid working culture that promotes work-life balance, and are proud to be able to offer the following benefits:

- Company Equity

- 27 days paid time off

- 12 days of Company Holiday

- 5 days paid volunteering leave

- Group Mediclaim (GMC)

- Enhanced parental leave policies

- MacBook Pro

- Access to various tools to aid your career development

More about Matillion

Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, DocuSign, Slack, and TUI trust Matillion technology to load, transform, sync, and orchestrate their data for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine learning, and AI. 

With over $300M raised from top Silicon Valley investors, we are on a mission to power the data productivity of our customers and the world.

We are passionate about doing things in a smart, considerate way. We’re honoured to be named a great place to work for several years running by multiple industry research firms. 

We are dual headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado.

We are keen to hear from prospective Matillioners, so even if you don’t feel you match all the criteria please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch. Alternatively, if you are interested in Matillion but don't see a suitable role, please email talent@matillion.com.

Matillion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team. Matillion prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Matillion does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.