Company Description

https://wise.jobs/what-we-offerWise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

About the role 

We're looking for an exceptional System Engineer to join our Network Engineering team in London, where you'll design and implement automated, scalable, stable, and well-documented solutions. As part of the User Tech (UT) team, you'll collaborate closely with Platform Engineering to enhance and secure our global network infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to bring your expertise and ideas to one of Europe's fastest-growing tech companies—helping to keep our teams seamlessly connected, no matter where they are in the world.

Here at Wise UT Network Engineering, we’re working to create a seamless IT experience by offering all the tools people need to do the best work they can, and simultaneously avoid being a speed hump. We have a highly mobile, geographically diverse work environment. Currently we look after network infrastructure where VPN and wireless connectivity plays an important role. 

What will you be working on?

You will be hands-on and will build and maintain automation tools, software and observability stacks for network infrastructure and network ci/cd pipelines

You’ll be working with network engineers in the User Tech and Platform Engineering teams 

Identify potential reliability issues before they impact our  internal customers

Create sustainable solutions for product teams that are easy-to-adopt

Measure our reliability to make data-driven decisions

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

About you: 

You’re a self starter who can run with projects

You document what you build and share them proactively and regularly

Reliability and scalability are paramount in your solutions

Security and privacy by design mindset

You think about risks and compliance 

You think that having an infrastructure being observable is as important as having it being available

You enjoy looking for where you can have impact and upset the norm

You’re happy working in a flat organisation structure

You’re collaborative  and have the ability to tailor communication to the audience - both to technical and non-technical people as needed. 

Must have skills:

Solid linux, containerisation and sysadmin skills with proficiency in bash scripting

Solid programming experience with python and/or go

Solid infrastructure automation skills - Terraform and Ansible

Experience in implementing SRE and IaC principles

You’re passionate about helping others and keen to roll up your sleeves and take ownership to drive company-wide impact

If you have experience with other tools or IaC/config management tooling not listed, we'd like to hear from you

Nice to Have

Good fundamentals in TCP/IP networking, DNS and network security

Experience of in AWS cloud platform

Interested? Find out more:

The Wise Tech Stack, 2022 Edition.

Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

Wise Engineering

What do we offer: 
Starting salary: £80,000-£102,000 + RSU
Wise Benefits
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Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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