Senior DevOps Engineer

About Sentinels

Sentinels was founded in 2019 by Joost van Houten and Arryon Tijsma to solve the problems in transaction monitoring solutions across the globe. Since then, we have expanded significantly, creating a group of dedicated compliance professionals focused on ending financial crime around the world. Our team is the driving force behind the AML and transaction monitoring software regtech revolution.

Position

At Sentinels we're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team.

Sentinels (Financial Risk & Compliance)

We believe AI to be the single most transformative technology of our time.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning create unprecedented new ways to live and do business. With expertise and insights from the real world, we build products which automate processes, detect anomalies, or predict outcomes. And we’re growing our team!

Senior DevOps Engineer

As DevOps Engineer, you’ll be at the bleeding-edge of combining industry insights and techniques to transform anti money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) solutions. You will be responsible for co-developing and implementing the architecture and infrastructure on our public cloud. You will work together with Software Engineers to create a robust, secure and scalable platform for monitoring transaction and customer data.

Furthermore, you will work together with clients to make sure their systems and ours integrate well.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for implementation and maintenance of infrastructure as code in our public cloud environment that meets the requirements of the team and our customers
• You will be able to provide infrastructure related insight to our developers regarding databases, API’s, user interfaces, and web services that will help grow our product as a service-oriented solution
• Support automation and autonomy of operations for our development teams by implementing CI/CD and DevOps best practices
• Support, mentor and coach team members to the top of their potential

Your qualification

• A senior position with 5+ years of experience as DevOps/ DevOps oriented Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer or comparable
• Experience in AWS cloud-based environments and have managed significant production workloads on such systems before. Certificates are a pre
• Well known with a managed Kubernetes platform (on the public cloud) and able to manage workloads that scale well, are secure by default and meet high availability demands
• Bachelor’s degree level of education in computer science or comparable
• Knowledge of various programming/coding languages (of which Python is a big pre) as well as general experience with web services (back-ends, API’s, frontends) and tools such as Git, Linux and Jira/Stash
• Experience with code refactoring and other good engineering practices such as designing proof of concepts, test automation, application and infrastructure security
• Huge bonus points for a background in fintech, payments or banking!

Will be a plus

• You have managed workloads in environments where a high level of security implementation such as ISO27001, SOC2 or PCI/DSS
• Experience with AWS Security hub, CloudWatch and Config is an advantage

Technology stack

Python, Rust, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Postgres, ReactJS, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Lambda, PostgreSQL, Terraform, AWS (Cloud-watch, Redis, S3, SNS, Cognito)

Development tools:

Gitlab CI/CD, Cypress, VS

Collaboration tools:

Jira, Miro, Confluence, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Figma, Slack

About You

• You are keen on being the best in your field and you want to help Sentinels in its continuous growth
• Ambition to help drive positive change
• Great sense of empathy that allows you to make user-centric decisions
• Creative and endlessly curious
• Self-motivated to take initiative and ownership of your work
• Passionate about excellence in the DevOps domain

What we offer

Come join Sentinels!

We are a team of innovators, at the forefront of technical knowledge and cutting-edge techniques. From research to prototype, from feature validation to new product launch - innovation is at the heart of everything we do.

We hire talents who dare to take a stand and explore new directions. We empower our team to be self-leading, take initiative and experiment.
Because we believe that creative and fulfilled people build the most helpful and inventive products.

We offer:

• An entrepreneurial environment where you learn more every day
• Personal responsibility with a ton of autonomy
• A chance to see your work make a real difference in the real world
• Work side-by-side with highly motivated people
• If you think this sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you!