Kharon
DevOps Engineer
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Department: Engineering
Location: London
Compensation: £90,000 - £105,000 / year
Description
TL;DR: Kharon is seeking a full-time DevOps Engineer based in London, UK.
Location: London, UK
Annual Remuneration: £90,000–£105,000 and discretionary annual bonus
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Probationary Period: 180 days
Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days per week
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of cloud infrastructure supporting Kharon's high-performance SaaS applications, with a focus on API-driven, infrastructure-as-code control planes
- Build and continuously improve automation for infrastructure provisioning, developer tooling, and internal workflows to increase engineering velocity
- Monitor system health and capacity, proactively identifying limitations and alerting on potential production issues to uphold SLA commitments
- Embed security-first principles into infrastructure architecture, automation design, and day-to-day operations
- Design and maintain systems for operational administration, backup, disaster recovery, and performance/security monitoring
- Collaborate cross-functionally as a hands-on contributor — giving and receiving feedback openly, and adapting quickly to new tools and technologies
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Strong software development background, with deep expertise in at least one programming language
- Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred)
- Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation tooling (OpenTofu preferred)
- Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions and ArgoCD preferred)
- Solid understanding of monitoring, networking, and security, with depth in at least one area
- Strong command of Linux systems
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Bonus Points:
- Experience managing high-availability, multi-AZ, and multi-region environments
- Experience architecting and building internal developer tooling
- Experience building observability tooling, dashboards, and alerting for application performance and stability
- Experience with distributed systems or microservice architecture
About Kharon
About Kharon
Kharon operates at the nexus of global security and is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.
From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today's leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.
When you look at any major global crisis event, we're providing intelligence that's at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that's meaningful. As the world continues to evolve in complexity, so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.
Company Benefits
- Fully-sponsored private health insurance
- Pension plan with 3% employer contribution
- Annual leave plus bank holidays
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DISCLOSURES
Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or identity, neurodiversity, appearances, age, protected veteran status, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants and employees. If you require any adjustment to participate in the recruitment process, please contact apply@kharon.com.
You must have the right to work in the UK. Kharon is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
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If your application is unsuccessful, your data will be retained for up to 12 months before being securely deleted. If you accept a role, your data will transfer to your employee record.
You have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of your data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to lodge a complaint with the UK data protection authority, the ICO, at www.ico.org.uk. To exercise your rights, contact us at apply@kharon.com.
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