Senior DevOps/SRE

Hey! We’re Plum, your smart saving and investing app on a mission to help grow money for life. Whether you’re stashing the cash for tea and toast in your first home or catching some rays during retirement, Plum’s got your back.

Since 2017, over 2 million people in 10 European markets have set aside more than £2 billion with our clever automation and AI – that’s the magic of Plum! As recognition for our work, we’ve received awards from the likes of Deloitte, Finder, and more.

That’s all down to our passionate team of 230+ Plumsters, who work around Europe to help us achieve our mission. And now we’re looking for more brilliant people to join us on our journey.

The Role

You will be joining our Infrastructure squad as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure that Plum’s systems are resilient, secure, scalable, observable and fully capable to support our growth. You will support our Engineering function to use our infrastructure in the most efficient way. You’ll proactively identify areas of improvements and propose initiatives to make the SRE function more streamlined and with reduced overhead.

What you will be doing:

• Operate, secure and scale our infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis)
• Automate aspects of systems using infrastructure management tools of the trade (we use Terraform)
• Ensure our metrics give an accurate picture of how the system is performing (we use Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
• Build and maintain SLIs and SLOs for our infrastructure, and provide a platform for squads to build their own SLOs on top of collected metrics
• Optimize and oversee our CI/CD infrastructure (Github Actions, CircleCI, ArgocD, Argo Workflows), empowering engineering teams with seamless build, test, and deployment automations
• Lead incident response and troubleshoot issues, correcting and improving systems to prevent incidents and grow at scale
• Build, improve and maintain Developer Experience tooling
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering squads, Security, Compliance to set up and improve Standard Operating Procedures
  

For this role, we'd like to see:

• Working experience of 5+ years as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps or in a similar position
• Proficiency in managing cloud infrastructure with tools like Terraform/OpenTofu
• Strong expertise in administration of Kubernetes clusters (preferably GKE)
• Strong expertise in observability (Logging, Monitoring, Tracing)
• Strong experience in scripting and automation
• Experience in Python, ability to navigate large codebases
• Familiarity with Relational Databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
• Passion for improving engineering workflows and developer productivity
• Analytical, troubleshooting attitude
• Proactive approach on problems, able to identify them and propose solutions
• Passion for continuous improvement and challenging the status quo
• Excellent communication skills in English (verbal and written)
  

Good to have

• System design/administration background
• Security awareness with secure-by-default mindset

Plum's Perks

• We're all in this together! Own part of the company through stock options 💷
• Annual training budget
• Private Health & Life Insurance
• Free Plum Premium subscription for yourself and two members of friends & family (worth 360€ in total).
• Free parking slots
• 25 days holiday a year, excluding public holidays
• Employee referral scheme up to €4000
• Flexible approach to remote working, though we encourage at least 2-3 days a week in our beautiful office in central Athens for optimal collaboration.
• 45 days work from anywhere
• Team breakfast on Tuesdays and team lunch on Thursdays in the office, as well as a plentiful supply of fruit, snacks and coffee.
• 1 day paid leave for volunteering, supporting you giving back to society.
• 2 weeks and 6 weeks paid sabbatical after four and eight years of service respectively.
• Team trip to secret destinations once a year ✈️
• Great office location in the heart of Athens (Syntagma square), with an amazing view!
• A vibe that’s 🦄🌈💯

If you think this sounds like a bit of you then don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Thanks,

Plum Τeam 💜

* Plum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Plum does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.