Xelix
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About us
We’re Xelix, an AI-powered Control Centre for Accounts Payable teams. We work with some of the largest global companies to automate and enhance their financial control processes. At the heart of our product, we leverage machine learning techniques developed by our AI Engineering team to provide a more sophisticated offering than existing solutions.
Things are going really well for us – we raised our Series A funding round from top investors, we’ve grown our team to over 90, and we’ve won industry awards for our products.
We are looking for a Junior DevOps engineer who is keen to grow and develop their skills. The DevOps team build out infrastructure critical to the deployment of new features and applications used by Xelix and our customers. The successful applicant will report to the DevOps Lead and work closely with the Development and AI Engineering teams.
Our ideal candidate is enthusiastic, determined, takes pride in their work, and finishes tasks to a high standard.
About the role
The DevOps team are responsible for managing, monitoring and optimising our systems, i.e. ensuring system Availability, Durability, Reliability, Resiliency and Fault Tolerance.
Xelix handle large volumes of sensitive commercial data, making security crucial. We are ISO:27001 and SOC 2 accredited. You will be actively involved with these, as well as helping to implement/maintain security best practices such as Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning.
Our technology stack includes AWS (web hosting, computing, storage, queues, caches, relational databases etc.); Terraform (IaaC); Jenkins; Sentry; GitHub; Shortcut; Networking (DNS, HTTPS); SSO; Python, Django and React.
What you’ll be doing
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Update/upgrade/maintain infrastructure using Terraform
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Provision new Infrastructure as the business grows
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Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins / Github Actions
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Help design solution architecture for new business features
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Maintain operations for Production, ensuring you are ready to respond to any incidents quickly
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Manage cloud costs by planning usage, rightsizing and ensuring unused infrastructure is torn down
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Provide IT Support and manage access to multiple services for Xelix team members
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Support the Development and AI Engineering Teams – help troubleshoot their issues
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Resolve customer issues with accessing the Xelix platform (e.g. SSO or networking)
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Maintain awareness of the latest security threats and help ensure Xelix maintains ISO:27001 and SOC 2 compliance
What you’ll bring
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Eager to learn and pickup new skills quickly and independently
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Confident to ask for help when stuck
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Good technical background and mindset
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Able to listen and work with other team members and customers in a professional manner
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Diligent at tasks, keeping to deadlines for tickets
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Responsive to the team, happy to help colleagues resolve technical issues quickly
What we offer in return
Competitive salary of £45,000 – £50,000 depending on experience
️ 27 days of annual leave (including 3 days Christmas closing), with the option to roll over 3 days
Hybrid working with two days a week from our dog-friendly Hoxton office and on-site gym
Comprehensive private medical & dental cover with Vitality
Enhanced parental leave pay
Learning & development culture – £500 personal annual budget
We’re carbon-neutral and are working towards ambitious carbon reduction goals
Lots of team socials & activities
☀️ Annual team retreat
Want to learn more?
We believe that people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences make our company and product better. No matter your background, we’d love to hear from you! And if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you – we’re happy to accommodate!
If you’re a recruiting agency – we have an existing list of agencies we work with and we are not currently planning on expanding the list. Neither the Talent team nor hiring managers or the Support team will respond to cold outreach.
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