About Rocket Lawyer
We believe everyone deserves affordable and simple access to legal services.
Rocket Lawyer is one of the largest and most widely used online legal service platforms in the world. Rocket Lawyer has helped over 25 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and answer over 30,000 legal questions.
We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding the London engineering team to take on this challenge!
About the Role
You’ll bring to the role a passion for building secure, robust, and high performance distributed systems. The ideal candidate will be a top-notch Linux expert with a devops and SRE focus and experience in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
In this role you will have responsibility for the availability and performance of Rocket Lawyer’s cloud infrastructure, software delivery and engineering productivity. You will have an exceptional track record in leading global teams and successfully building reliable production cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a supportive and inspirational leader to help our SRE and DevOps teams meet the demands of rapid global expansion and customer onboarding. As a leader in the Cloud Platforms organization, you will hire, retain, and mentor leaders and engineers to take on the challenges of supporting a platform that is always-on with industry-leading availability and uptime.
A Day in the Life
Develop a world class globally distributed cloud team of devops and SRE and directly responsible for the availability and reliability of Rocket Lawyer’s cloud platformOwn Cloud operations, infrastructure and deployments including CI / CD pipelines, monitoring, and budgetingManage the recruitment and on-boarding of new startersFacilitate well thought-out technical decisionsPromote best practices to the wider engineering communityDesign and develop tools to improve developer productivityLead the incident management process to ensure smooth running of systems with minimal customer impactCreates a culture of continuous learning from mistakes Advocate for and advances modern software development practices (CI/CD, test automation etc.)Is passionate about constantly improving the way the team is workingSupport the engineering team to help them perform at their highest levelAlways look to bring out the best in othersTake a pragmatic approach to balancing short- and long-term prioritiesCollaborate with our feature development teams to get new services and APIs to market using the CI/CD tools and processes your team providesLead development of public cloud strategy and practice
Experience
7+ years experience building and managing high performing engineering teams5+ years experience supporting production systems that serve 100k + usersExperience within an Agile Software delivery environmentProficient in leading engineers to deliver good quality and clean codeKnowledge of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, source control management, build processes, and testingExperience in recruiting and hiring engineersPassionate about coaching engineersPassionate about software security, performance and scalingDemonstrated experience with implementing and supporting CI/CD tooling and working with development teams to roll out and manage projectsExperience with managing highly available production-facing e-commerce web sitesKnowledge of monitoring systems and frameworks (nagios, sensu, graphite, etc.)Experience with build automation (jenkins, go, cloudbuild, cruisecontrol, etc.)Experience in designing / building scalable, highly available, secure cloud solutions.Experience with working with APIs and microservices
Nice to have
Computer science degree or related technical experience preferredDebian Linux/Ubuntu administration and managementExperience with release managementExperience with Google Cloud and associated core services such as Cloud SQL, Cloud Build, GKE, GCE, Networking, VPC’s, Cloud IAM, Cloud PubSub.
Benefits & Perks
Benefits & PerksPrivate health insurance Life insuranceMeal/Food voucherGympass discountDaycare assistanceFinancial support with those who have children with special needs and disabilitiesFree Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates
