Junior DevOps Engineer

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 almost 100, and we’ve won industry awards for our products.

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

• Update/upgrade/maintain infrastructure using Terraform
• Provision new Infrastructure as the business grows
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins / Github Actions
• Help design solution architecture for new business features
• Maintain operations for Production, ensuring you are ready to respond to any incidents quickly
• Manage cloud costs by planning usage, rightsizing and ensuring unused infrastructure is torn down
• Provide IT Support and manage access to multiple services for Xelix team members
• Support the Development and AI Engineering Teams - help troubleshoot their issues
• Resolve customer issues with accessing the Xelix platform (e.g. SSO or networking)
• Maintain awareness of the latest security threats and help ensure Xelix maintains ISO:27001 and SOC 2 compliance
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Eager to learn and pickup new skills quickly and independently
• Confident to ask for help when stuck
• Good technical background and mindset
• Able to listen and work with other team members and customers in a professional manner
• Diligent at tasks, keeping to deadlines for tickets
• 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?

• About us
• Xelix blog
• Xelix news
• Xelix glassdoor
  
  

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.

Accounts Payable Control Centre

AI-powered software that bolts onto finance systems to enhance AP controls, automate tedious tasks and deliver meaningful insights.