DevOps Engineer, AlphaSights
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Connecting businesses with industry professionals
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Connecting businesses with industry professionals
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to unlock humanity’s knowledge and power progress for professionals, businesses, and society.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people who are interested in designing and executing solutions to a very high standard, comfortable working across multiple technologies, and learn quickly when new ones are introduced
- 3+ years experience in demonstrating competency and positive results in a DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Professional experience with CI/CD tooling and concepts, including Git, CircleCI, GitLab, Spinnaker
- 3+ years experience managing and demonstrating competency with AWS infrastructure, including EKS, IAM, RDS, S3, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, ECR and ASM. AWS Certification is a plus
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes administration and container orchestration in a production context
- Capable of developing and maintaining tools that enable developers to manage environments and automate common tasks
- Experience with automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or another IaC tool
- Knowledge of a variety of security concepts and frameworks that can be leveraged in your day to day work, and applying those concepts in securing our AWS environments
- Experience with multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking
- Familiarity with disaster recovery concepts, failover and redundant architecture
- Highly collaborative, organized and has the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects
- Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes
What the job involves
- As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, building and maintaining our core AWS infrastructure and our CI/CD pipelines and toolset
- Create solutions that enable our engineering teams to deploy code quickly, reliably and securely
- Ensure the availability, scalability, performance and security of our cloud infrastructure
- Diagnose and troubleshoot application and infrastructure related issues quickly and effectively
- Provision cloud resources based on capacity, computing and security requirements
- Always have best security practices top of mind, employing zero trust and principle of least privilege across all critical systems and resources
- Work in tandem with development teams to manage and execute DevOps and Infrastructure initiatives
- Regularly evaluate and research alternative solutions to improve internal DevOps processes
- Continuously evaluate and refine the monitoring of our critical infrastructure and applications
Our take
Businesses often invest significant time and effort into finding expert knowledge in a process that can be a difficult and arduous. AlphaSights bridges the gap between businesses and industry experts by sourcing people with relevant knowledge so businesses don't have to.
Through use of artificial intelligence, AlphaSights is able to provide an end-to-end service for businesses whilst rigorously complying with company requirements. A central, ever evolving system allows the company to keep on top of the new and most relevant industry professionals in real time to provide tailor-made and effective service.
AlphaSights supports private equity funds, hedge funds, consultancies, Fortune 500 companies and Social Impact & Non Profits.
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back within 2 weeks
61% female employees
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"AlphaSights has 2 instances per year in which employees can be chosen for elevation, as early as with 1 year experience the person can get a..."
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2008
$8.9m
SEED
Total funding: $8.9m
Company benefits
- A team-oriented, strong supportive culture that emphasises professional development and celebrating success
- Professional development opportunities that work to ensure that you’re supported, along with an opportunity for internal upward mobility as our growing team continues to scale
- Comprehensive medical benefits (health, vision, and dental)
- Subsidised lunch programme, corporate gym discounts, monthly team events, free breakfast & snacks
- Holiday allowance, excl. public holidays
Company values
- Results-orientation: Are you energized by results and outcomes?
- Drive: Do you excel beyond what’s asked of you?
- Adaptability: Do you thrive in an ever-changing environment?
- Humility: Do you view yourself as a constant ‘work-in-progress’?
- Empathy: Can you see the world through other’s eyes?
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Max Cartellieri
(Co-CEO)Has been a Consultant at McKinsey & Company and Investment Executive at BC Partners. Co-founder and CEO at Ciao for seven years.
Andrew Heath
(Co-CEO)Previously Associate at the Boston Consulting Group and Managing Director at GoIndustry.
People progressing
After joining AlphaSights back in September 2019 as part of the Lateral Recruitment function, Pip has helped to grow our teams across the business and elevate into the Senior Recruiter role.
After graduating in 2016, Will joined AlphaSights in our Client Services Team. In this time, he has worked on a variety of different projects and recently progressed into a Vice President role.
Diversity & Inclusion at AlphaSights
- We believe that investing in DEI is the right thing to do and is vital to driving progress. We go the extra mile to build teams of people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, because diversity of thought drives innovation and knowledge diffusion which creates value for our clients, employees and society
- Diversity. We strive to build diverse teams, so we heavily invest in identifying and attracting top talent with diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Equity. Fair and equal treatment is in our DNA. Our processes, culture and values are designed to ensure everyone is treated equitably and with respect
- Inclusion. Our community is vibrant and we want all employees to have a feeling of belonging at AlphaSights. Through our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we provide support and community for employees globally
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