R3 Jobs in United Kingdom

At R3 we are on a mission to build the platform that will revolutionize the world’s financial infrastructure.   Corda takes innovations from blockchain, but was designed from the start to be private and permissioned – meaning it’s regulatable and can be used by established organisations.    Applications range from central bank digital currency and payments to digitizing of financial market infrastructure, to issuance trade and settlement of native digital assets like stocks and bonds.  As well as offering customers the Corda platform software and tooling, R3 also operates  Corda Network, a publicly-available internet of Corda nodes operated by network participants.  Corda Network enables interoperability – the exchange of data or assets via a secure, efficient internet layer. A common Trust Root surrounds all transactions, and a consistent set of network parameters ensures all participants may transact with each other.   We’re looking for a Head of DevOps Engineering who will be responsible for managing (both pastoral and technical leadership) a team of engineers who: ·       Operate, update and maintain Corda Network and associated Notary services ·       Work hand in hand with our Corda platform software engineers to design, develop, test and operate K8s and Kafka-based tooling and infrastructure to enable us to rapidly iterate Corda and ensure that it operates robustly at scale, with high availability etc. ·       Work with our security team to ensure our code, cloud resources, and processes are compliant with the high standards that our biggest customers demand   You will need to be familiar with operating live, high availability services,  as well as with partnering with software engineering teams to improve software delivery agility.  You will be a leader with a passion for promoting DevOps practices to all teams collaboratively and for empowering and enabling DevOps practitioners to learn and develop.  You are comfortable leading a team that covers a broad tech stack that includes Ansible/Terraform/Azure VMs, GitLab, HSMs for PKI, Kubernetes in Azure and AWS, Confluent/Kafka, ELK etc.