Senior Software Engineer L4 - DevSecOps Enablement

Introduction

Company Intro Who We Are

We are an organisation that exists to drive progress. That's the “red thread” that connects everyone at The Economist Group (TEG). Our businesses share a devotion to innovation, independence and rigour in their fields of expertise. We empower people to understand and tackle the critical challenges and changes facing the world. Our analytical rigour, global expertise and evidence-based insights enable individuals and organisations to make sense of these shifts and chart a course through them.

Our story began in 1843, when a Scottish hat manufacturer founded The Economist newspaper to further the cause of free trade. Since then, we have evolved into a staunchly independent global media and information-services company that provides intelligent thinking for an international audience. We deliver our analysis and insights in many formats to subscribers and clients in 170 countries with four businesses, each of which upholds our global reputation for excellence and integrity.

Business Unit Intro

Our team of 200 colleagues is at the heart of The Economist Group’s digital-first agenda. Together, we are delivering user-friendly, high-quality digital products that bring data, intelligence and analysis to our growing global audiences across all our four businesses.

Our team develops cutting-edge products that provide valuable insights and analysis to business and government leaders worldwide. Whether it involves creating new products for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), conceptualising mobile applications that deliver personalised content, or enhancing our flagship website, economist.com, the Technology team plays a crucial role in shaping how we attract, convert, engage, and retain our 1.2 million subscribers.

The Technology team collaborates closely with other teams to engineer innovative solutions that cater to the evolving needs of our subscribers. This includes leveraging advanced technologies and methodologies to enhance the acquisition of new subscribers, optimise conversion rates, deliver engaging user experiences, and ensure long-term subscriber loyalty.

We are developing a world-class DevSecOps Enablement team and have an exciting opportunity for a Senior DevSecOps Software Engineer. At group platform level, The DevSecOps Enablement team is responsible for driving DevSecOps across all of our product engineering teams across 4 Business Units and >40 teams at platform level. As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer you will partner with teams and stakeholders to embed cloud technology and best practice; transforming the capabilities and efficiency of product engineering teams within our organisation.

The engineering division has experienced unprecedented growth over the last 12 months, and as a result we’re looking for a DevSecOps specialist who is eager to develop their skills and career. Our global DevSecOps team is multi-continent and based across APAC and EMEA.

Accountabilities

The role:

The role will suit either an existing Senior DevSecOps Engineer or a mid-level DevSecOps Engineer ready for their next challenge, but with at least some experience leading or mentoring a high performing team. You should enjoy working with autonomy in a creative and entrepreneurial environment, and have a strong commitment to producing high quality solutions. We offer flexible working and have recently shifted to a 'remote first' working policy with a minimum expectation of coming to the office 1-2 days a month, however you can come in more often if you wish to.

How you will contribute:

• Architect and build scalable, reusable constructs, orbs or libraries for Data Engineering pipelines / workflows for deploying models for large scale inference and optimisations.
• Monitor system health and reliability to improve & support business process requirements.
• O ptimise and transition our current processes to ensure well architected implementations and best practices.
• Ensure cloud-based infrastructure is secure and efficient and build scalable constructs for teams to manage performance, security and finops.
• Manage, configure and automate systems and services in AWS in IAC CDK & TF CDK. (TS, PY, GO)
• Deploy product updates, identify production issues and implement integrations.
• Own and drive improvement on Mean-Time-To-Repair and Mean-Time-Between-Incidents uptime.
• Perform deep-dive analysis for all major incidents, coordinating with support and Infrastructure teams to identify root cause in both application and infrastructure.
• Ensure application of platform security structures via constructs, orbs following global scaleable standards
• Champion and implement Disaster Recovery and DR Days
• Educate and mentor engineering team members on AWS services and SRE/DevOps best practices.
• Collaborate across departments and work closely with all teams across 4 BUs and >40 teams for platform and high-impact initiatives requirements.
• Educate and train colleagues such as data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders in DevSecOps in a way which is reusable and scalable, which makes it easier for them to integrate and consume the data they need for their own use cases.
• Participate in ensuring compliance and governance when building constructs, orbs & templates to ensure that the users and consumers use the resources provisioned to them responsibly through data governance and compliance initiatives.
• Partner with teams and stakeholders to deliver a DevSecOps enablement roadmap.
  
  

Experience, Skills And Professional Attributes

What we’re looking for:

• Previous experience working with cloud technologies, AWS products and services.
• Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure setup and management for high-scale and secure web applications.
• Main language speciality (or similar) in Typescript, Python, AWS CDK, Terraform CDK, Bash, CICD, Monitoring and Security tooling
• Experience using IaC and DevOps tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation (or similar), AWS CDK is a bonus.
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools for delivery and automation.
• Capable of performing technical deep-dives into code and architecture.
• Familiarity with any of the well-known DevSecOps frameworks.
• Capable of working in agile team with multiple technologies.
• You understand the importance of using metrics to influence product and technical decisions.
• You are an advocate for modern DevOps/SRE tools, best practices and culture.
• Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• 6+ years of professional experience with DevSecOps operations
• You understand the importance of using metrics to influence product and technical decisions.
• Strong, fundamental technical expertise in cloud-native technologies, such as serverless functions, API gateway, container registry , AWS products and services.
• Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure setup and management for high-scale and secure web applications.
• Main language speciality (or similar) in Python, Typescript, Terraform, Bash, CICD, Monitoring and Security tooling
• Experience using IaC and DevOps tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation (or similar), AWS CDK and/or TF CDK is a bonus.
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools for delivery and automation.
• Capable of performing technical deep-dives into code and architecture.
• Familiarity with any of the well-known DevSecOps frameworks.
• Capable of working in an agile team with multiple technologies.
• You are an advocate for modern DevOps/SRE tools, best practices and culture.
• Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in leading / mentoring engineering teams.
• Experience in working in teams with data scientists and data engineers, for building automated pipelines for model building, deployment and monitoring.
• An advanced degree in computer science, information science, data science, or a related quantitative field or equivalent work experience.
• Strong ownership, scrappy and biassed for action.
  
  

What we offer

Benefits

We offer excellent benefits including an incentive scheme, generous annual and parental leave policies, volunteering days and well-being support throughout the year, as well as free access to all Economist content. Country specific benefits are also offered.

Our Values

Our values are a collective set of beliefs and behaviours that strengthen The Economist Group's purpose and demonstrate where we want to be as an organisation. They reflect on our mission to pursue progress for individuals, organisations and the world.

Independence

We are not bound to any party or interest and encourage exploration and free-thinking. We champion freedom, both within our organisation and around the world.

Integrity

We are bold in our efforts to uncover the truth and stand up for what we believe in. We inspire trust through our rigour, fact-checking and transparency.

Excellence

We aspire to the highest standards in all we do. We are ambitious and inquisitive in our pursuit of continuous progress and innovation.

Inclusivity

We value diversity in thought and background and encourage healthy debate with a breadth of perspectives. We treat our colleagues and customers fairly and respectfully.

Openness

We foster a collaborative and empathetic culture conducive to the interests, wit and initiative of our colleagues. New ideas are our lifeblood.

The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our colleagues and potential colleagues regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, gender identity, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, age, marital status or any other status.