Senior Infrastructure Engineer/Architect

Details of the role:

Job Description:

R3 is the leader in digital currency, digital assets, and interoperability solutions. R3 supports Central Banks, Corporates and FMIs by providing them with solutions to progress financial markets digitization.

Corda is an open, permissioned DLT platform powering the tokenization of assets and currencies connecting global markets. Corda enables tokenization with control, security, and privacy, providing asset mobility in a permissioned, trusted environment.

R3 is committed to progressing financial markets and to enabling an open, trusted, and advanced digital economy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions to support our Corda DLT Platform
• Work hand in hand with our software engineers to architect and design infrastructure to enable us to rapidly promote deploy solutions from a development environment to a customer environment
• Design and implement Continuous Integration pipelines to build, test, version, and publish software artefacts
• Integrating static analysis tools into the CI pipeline to enhance code quality and reduce the risk of issues in production environments
• Work with our security team to ensure our code, data centre resources, and processes are compliant with the high standards that our biggest customers demand
• You will use well developed and comprehensive judgment to make decisions of high complexity and impact
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Ensure the infrastructure is compliant with security policies and regulations.
• You will mentor other engineers, enabling them to understand your approach to understanding and solving complex problems

Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Linux and Kubernetes based environments, in the Cloud (AWS) and on premises
• Hands on experience in managing infrastructure, containerisation deployments
• Experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana for tracking distributed systems
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools like Helm, Terraform and Ansible
• In-depth understanding of networking concepts
• Solid understanding and experience of security engineering
• At least 7+ years of experience as Senior or Principal Infrastructure or DevOps Engineer (or equivalent role) working on large-scale projects and architecture.
• Experience collaborating effectively in a cross-disciplinary team setup interacting directly with many parts of the organisation

Nice to haves:

• Experience building and designing Microapps/Microservices .
• Operational understanding of the deployment, monitoring, HA, backup/restore of: Kubernetes, Postgres, NATS, Ignite, HashiCorp Vault, Infinispan, and Keycloak.
• Blockchain and DLT Knowledge.

• Financial Systems and CBDC Domain Knowledge.