Job Description

At Runpath, we make finding, applying and using financial products and services easier for our partners and their customers. Since 2009, we’ve built industry leading comparison services and have been defining and building products to assist partners utilise disruptive technologies, like Open Banking. These technologies are being applied to truly revolutionise the financial sector.

In 2017, Runpath were acquired by Experian which provides us with a unique market advantage and accelerated access to credit services. By leveraging market and personal data, our offerings are improving customers’ financial quality of life, enabling personalised product comparison and assessing real-time affordability.

Our people

We are a close-knit team, specialising in problem solving, interface design and data-platform development. We are passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers, achieved through creativity, collaboration, experimentation and continuous learning: our people are at the heart of this. Ultimately, our success is built on passionate, motivated individuals, determined to shape the future of the financial software industry.

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to join our team.

As a member of our highly experienced technical team you will be helping to deliver and support cutting edge solutions for a variety of internal and external clients. Specifically in DevOps, you’ll have a passion for building, shipping and supporting high performance, robust, and efficient solutions quickly. Ultimately we’re after someone who is flexible, a fast learner, loves to solve problems and enjoys getting products to market.

Our Technology

Our technology stack of choice is Angular backed by client solutions and platform services all hosted on Azure built using the latest Microsoft .NET technologies: (.NET Core/MVC/Web API/Entity Framework/SQL Azure). We are a .NET shop and like to utilise the latest technologies from ASP.Net and the community (within reason). We are happy with specialisation, so you do not need to be an expert developer at all areas in the stack, but an exposure to and appreciation of the full stack is important.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Drive the continual evolution and improvement of our platform hosting capability.
  • Building and configuring automation processes that enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale and monitor their applications within Azure
  • Provide assistance for project teams, including build support/troubleshooting.
  • Continual improvement of our visibility into systems and applications with relevant analytics and insight.
  • Security testing (internally and with 3rd parties), policy documentation and auditing.
  • Operational support of our hosted deployments including an out of hours on call rota.

Core Competencies

Nice to Have

  • Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
  • Octopus Deploy
  • Knowledge of modern JavaScript based single page applications (SPA)
  • SQL Server
  • Powershell
  • Encryption Techniques

Preferred Qualities

  • Someone who loves getting things done
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks at the same time and prioritise appropriately
  • Ability to clearly and concisely communicate, both written and verbal, with technical and business stakeholders appropriately
  • Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills
  • Exceptional at collaborating with both technical and non-technical people
  • Highly organised with a strong eye for detail
  • Good with feedback, continually looking to improve and develop
  • Sense of humour