Engineering Manager – Platform

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November 12

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Ripjar

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Finance • Compliance • Artificial Intelligence

Ripjar is a company focused on countering financial crime through advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence solutions. Their Labyrinth platform offers services in name screening, adverse media screening, threat investigations, and data fusion, targeting industries such as banking, financial services, and gaming. The platform allows institutions to enhance their KYC and AML operations by automatically identifying risks from various data sources. Ripjar supports global companies and governments in detecting and responding to criminal behaviors such as money laundering, bribery, and fraud. Their solutions enable users to integrate and fuse structured and unstructured data, providing a comprehensive view of threats. By leveraging advanced automation and machine learning, Ripjar delivers real-time alerts and insights for threat intelligence and compliance.

51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

📋 Compliance

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• Lead and manage a team of platform and operations engineers delivering the public/private cloud infrastructure, automation, and observability capabilities that underpin Ripjar’s mission-critical products. • Coach, mentor, and develop your team through regular 1:1s, feedback, and tailored growth plans. You’ll champion psychological safety and a culture of accountability and clarity. • Own and drive security, reliability and scalability objectives to ensure our production systems are secure, highly available and fault tolerant. • Oversee operational excellence, including incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system reliability. • Refine and evolve platform processes, such as deployment pipelines, change management, and observability practices, to drive speed and stability as we deploy new capabilities. • Foster a DevOps culture, empowering engineering teams to own their services end-to-end while providing robust shared tooling and automation frameworks. • Guide your team as they set the direction for engineering in areas such as infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Data, and Delivery teams to ensure our infrastructure supports evolving product needs and compliance standards. • Contribute to the wider engineering community, sharing best practices around operational excellence, monitoring, and resilience.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in engineering leadership, with a track record of implementing process improvements and raising operational standards. • Proven experience leading platform, SRE, or DevOps teams working in a hybrid public / private cloud environment. • Familiarity with relevant technologies and platforms. Our production workloads are currently hosted in public cloud (AWS) and our dev/test workloads are self-orchestrated using clustered Proxmox as a private cloud. Our analytics workloads are distributed on bare metal using Spark, HBASE and HDFS. We make extensive use of terraform and ansible for IaC, our CI/CD uses GitHub Actions, our observability is provided via Datadog and we increasingly orchestrate our workloads using K8’s. • Skilled in agile delivery, incident management, and balancing operational priorities with longer term company objectives. • Thought leadership such that you can engage confidently with engineers on design decisions, architecture, and trade-offs.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary DOE • Fully remote working with occasional travel. • 25 days annual leave + your birthday off and Christmas shutdown, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service • 35 hour working week • Flexible working hours • Life assurance • Private Family Healthcare • Employee Assistance Programme • Company contributions to your pension • Enhanced maternity/paternity pay • The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro • Office equipped with well-stocked pantries with food, snacks and drinks when in the office