Senior DevOps Engineer

<p><strong>Sentinels (Financial Risk &amp; Compliance)</strong></p><p>We believe AI to be the single most transformative technology of our time.</p><p>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!</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>About us</strong></p><p>The financial system is facing serious challenges. Banks and payment service providers are struggling to meet the requirements of regulators, and current Know Your Customer &amp; Anti-Money Laundering solutions are falling short of needs. At the root of financial crime are felonies involving drugs, human trafficking, and terrorism.</p><p>AI and machine learning offer the promise to spot suspicious activity effectively. The team at Sentinels is building cutting-edge AI software products to help financial institutions meet pressing regulatory requirements, reduce false positives, maximise their customer experience, and fight financial crime. Because we operate in the financial domain, we consider explainability and interpretability to be very important, which translates to the solutions we build.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Senior DevOps Engineer</strong></p><p>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 with Software Engineers to create a robust, secure and scalable platform for monitoring transactions and customer data.</p><p>Furthermore, you will work with clients to ensure their systems and ours integrate well.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>This is a hybrid role: our teams work 1-2 days per week from the office.<br/></strong></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul> <li>You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining the infrastructure as code in our public cloud environment that meets the team's and our customers' requirements.</li> <li>You will be able to provide infrastructure-related insight to our developers regarding databases, APIs, user interfaces, and web services that will help grow our product as a service-oriented solution.</li> <li>Support automation and autonomy of operations for our development teams by implementing CI/CD and DevOps best practices.</li> <li>Support, mentor and coach team members to the top of their potential.</li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><ul> <li>You have previously held a senior position with 5+ years of experience as a DevOps/ DevOps-oriented Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer or comparable.</li> <li>Experience in AWS cloud-based environments and have previously managed significant production workloads on such systems. Certificates are a pre.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree level of education in computer science or comparable.</li> <li>Knowledge of various programming/coding languages (of which Python is a big pre), broad experience with web services (back-ends, APIs, frontends), and tools such as Git, Linux and Jira/Stash.</li> <li>Experience with code refactoring and other good engineering practices such as designing a proof of concepts, test automation, application and infrastructure security</li> <li>Huge bonus points for a background in fintech, payments or banking!</li> </ul><p><br/></p><p><strong>Nice to have<br/></strong></p><ul> <li>You have managed workloads in environments where a high level of security implementation, such as ISO27001, SOC2 or PCI/DSS</li> <li>Experience with AWS Security hub, CloudWatch and Config is an advantage</li> </ul><p><strong>Technology stack</strong></p><p>Python, ElasticSearch, Postgres, ReactJS, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Lambda, PostgreSQL, Terraform, AWS (Cloud-watch, Redis, S3, SNS, Cognito)</p><p><strong>Development tools:<br/></strong></p><p>Gitlab CI/CD, Cypress, VS<br/></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Collaboration tools:</strong></p><p>Jira, Miro, Confluence, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Figma, Slack</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul> <li>You are keen on being the best in your field and want to help Sentinels in its continuous growth.</li> <li>Ambition to help drive positive change</li> <li>Great sense of empathy that allows you to make user-centric decisions</li> <li>Creative and endlessly curious</li> <li>Self-motivated to take the initiative and ownership of your work</li> <li>Passionate about excellence in the DevOps domain</li> <li>Already based in the Netherlands</li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><p>We are a team of innovators at the forefront of technical knowledge and