Oscatel is hiring a remote back-end engineer - working with Go and Node.js - to design and implement application layer solutions for a range of projects that underpin mobile telco carriers.\n\nWe're building modular scalable solutions around operations and service management for some of Europe's largest and most innovative carriers, all of which we will help you get to grips with. \n\nThe domain entails data-intensive services where security, data integrity and uptime are key. This presents lots of interesting design and coding challenges as we build and integrate our technology. We're utilising established IP-based protocols and frameworks, working with the standard Go libraries and Node.js.\n\nYou can anticipate a mix of well-defined mainly greenfield projects, along with substantial exploratory work as we validate concepts and build new solutions, maturing these into customisable long-term products. \n\nWe offer a culture where you may work under your own initiative as part of a collaborative effort towards common goals. It's an opportunity to be a formative team member, and to grow and improve together.\n\n**A flavour of upcoming projects**\n\n* High throughput transaction systems\n* Data management methods, analytics and alerting tools\n* QoS and fraud monitoring solutions\n* SS7 Signalling services and firewall \n* Product modules - analytics & metrics, financial reporting & billing, message routing\n* Helping promote sustainable development culture, methods and automation\n\n**We're looking for**\n\n* Someone with solid coding and solution design skills, accrued in a modern application back-end context\n* Production coding experience with Go, or good familiarity with Go in addition to another statically typed or back-end language that you've applied in a Linux environment\n* Familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript or JS\n* A service oriented architecture based approach, with strong API design and SQL skills\n* An ability to get to grips with complex requirements, to uphold security of sensitive data and to conform to best practices\n* A shared belief in writing code that's efficient, well-tested, documented and maintainable\n\n**Current ecosystem - we'll welcome your influence**\n\nGo | Node.js, TypeScript, React | gRPC | GraphQL | Elasticsearch | RabbitMQ | Kubernetes | Docker | AWS | Linux | Terraform | CircleCI | Atlassian stack | Github | Slack \n\n**Salary and benefits**\n\n* £55,000 - £70,000+ we're keeping an open mind\n* 30 days holiday (plus public holidays)\n* One weeks' extra pay each December\n* Pension contribution matched at 5%\n* Flexible working - tell us what you need - e.g. four day week\n* Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications\n* Workstation and remote working equipment\n* Every three years - option to take six weeks' paid sabbatical \n\n**About us**\n\nOscatel provides software solutions that underpin the operations of mobile carriers. Founded in 2009, we're a fast-growing privately-owned business that's building a friendly and collaborative, all-new, development team. You'll become our third back-end colleague, joining a team designed around remote working. We're semi Agile, with daily standups and a flat team structure, where you can work on features through to fruition. We're looking for someone who wants to write great software that utilises our domain knowledge and creates value for our customers. https://www.oscatel.co.uk\n\n**Location: fully remote within UK**\n\n**Please note, we are only considering candidates who have an established right to work in the UK.**\n \n\nPlease mention the words **SENTENCE PEOPLE AGAIN** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $70,000 — $100,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUK

\nOpportunity\n\nSecurityScorecard is hiring a DevOps Engineer to bridge the gap between our global development and operational teams who is motivated to help continue automating and scaling our infrastructure. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for setting up and managing the operation of project development and test environments as well as the software configuration management processes for the entire application development lifecycle. Your role would be to ensure the optimal availability, latency, scalability, and performance of our product platforms. You would also be responsible for automating production operations, promptly notifying backend engineers of platform issues, and checking long term quality metrics.\n\nOur infrastructure is based on AWS with a mix of managed services like RDS, ElastiCache, and SQS, as well as hundreds of EC2 instances managed with Ansible and Terraform. We are actively using three AWS regions, and have equipment in several data centers across the world.\n\nRegions: North America (GMT-7.00) Mountain time - (GMT-4.00) Atlantic time\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Training, mentoring, and lending expertise to coworkers with regards to operational and security best practises. \n\n* Reviewing and providing feedback on GitHub Pull Requests to team members AND development teams- a significant percentage of our Software Engineers have written Terraform.\n\n* Identifying opportunities for technical and process improvement and owning the implementation. \n\n* Championing the concepts of immutable containers, Infrastructure as Code, stateless applications, and software observability throughout the organization.\n\n* Systems performance tuning with a focus on high availability and scalability.\n\n* Building tools to ease the usability and automation of processes\n\n* Keeping products up and operating at full capacity\n\n* Assisting with migration processes as well as backup and replication mechanisms\n\n* Working on a large-scale distributed environment where you were focused on scalability/reliability/performance\n\n* Ensuring proper monitoring / alerting are configured\n\n* Investigating incidents and performance lapses\n\n\n\n\nCome help us with projects such as…\n\n\n* Extending our compute clusters to support low latency, on-demand job execution\n\n* Turning pets into cattle\n\n* Cross region replication of systems and corresponding data to support low latency access\n\n* Rolling out application performance monitoring to existing services, extending integrations where required\n\n* Migration from self hosted ELK to a SaaS stack\n\n* Continuous improvement of CI/CD processes making builds & deployments faster, safer, and more consistent\n\n* Extending a Global VPN WAN to a datacenter with IPSec+BGP\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years of DevOps and/or Operations experience in a Linux based environment\n\n* 1+ years of production environment experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)\n\n* 1+ years using SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres)\n\n* Strong scripting abilities (bash/python)\n\n* Strong Experience with CI/CD processes (Jenkins, Ansible) and automated configuration tools (Puppet/Chef/Ansible)\n\n* Experience with container orchestration (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Marathon/Mesos)\n\n* Ability to work as part of a highly collaborative team\n\n* Understanding of monitoring tools like DataDog\n\n* Strong written and verbal communication skills\n\n\n\n\nNice to Have\n\n\n* You knew exactly what was meant by "Turning pets into cattle"\n\n* Experience working with Kubernetes on bare-metal and/or the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.\n\n* Experience with RabbitMQ, MongoDB, or Apache Kafka.\n\n* Experience with Presto or Apache Spark.\n\n* Familiarity with computation orchestration tools such as HTCondor, Apache Airflow, or Argo.\n\n* Understanding of network concepts- OSI layers, firewalls, DNS, split horizon DNS, VPN, routing, BGP, etc.\n\n* A deep understanding of AWS IAM, and how it interacts with S3 buckets.\n\n* Experience with SAFe.\n\n* Strong programming skills in 2+ languages.\n\n\n\n\nTooling We Use\n\n\n* Data definition, format and interfaces\n\n\n\n* Definitions - Protobuf V3\n\n* Normalize from - JSON / XML / CSV\n\n* Normalize to - Protobuf / ORC\n\n* Interfaces - REST API(s) and object store buckets\n\n\n\n* Cloud Services - Amazon Web Services\n\n* Databases: Postgresql, PrestoDB\n\n* Cache: Redis, Varnish\n\n* Languages: Python / C++14 / Scala / Golang / Javascript / Ruby / Java\n\n* Job Orchestration - HTCondor / Apache Airflow / Rundeck\n\n* Analytics - Spark \n\n* Storage: NFS/EFS, AWS S3, HDFS\n\n* Computation - Docker Containers / VMs / Metal / EMR\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, InfoSec, Senior, Engineer, JavaScript, Amazon, Python, Scala, Ruby, SaaS, Golang, Apache, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n