💼 About the role

PQShield is looking for an Senior DevOps Engineer to expand our Engineering team.

PQShield has been established since 2018, so you would be directly working with the founders and inventors of this deep tech startup. However the technology is already a couple of years in the making, its feasibility having been established, funding secured, and it has a clear path to market. This is a great opportunity to make career progress and to get a head start in a rapidly expanding segment of the semiconductor industry (Post-Quantum Cryptography and RISC-V).

Our components come together as a RISC-V MCU based Sub-system with advanced (post-quantum) cryptography algorithm support and security features.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be integrated closely with the wider Engineering teams to design, implement, and support automated, scalable solutions to ensure reliable, secure, and high-quality code is built, tested, and delivered to internal teams and into customer production solutions. The role involves strong cross-team collaboration with software, firmware, and hardware IP teams, as well as the project delivery team and the infrastructure team.

⚒️ What you’ll be doing

• Designing, enhancing, and implementing modular, reusable, scalable, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery systems in line with industry best practices
• Monitoring and ensuring smooth operation of test and production environments, building dynamic dashboards and alerts to communicate information to the wider team
• Coaching the wider team on CI/CD best-practice and aligning this with existing HW and SW development processes and best-practice
• Collaborating with the engineering team to identify opportunities for automation early in the development lifecycle
• Managing physical test assets and infrastructure such as development boards and FPGAs
• Supporting the engineering team with configuration management, minimising overall testing runtime while supporting a growing configuration space for our IP products.
• Problem solving through dashboards and logs to identify and resolve issues, providing preventative solutions
• Working with engineering and infrastructure/operations teams to pre-emptively identify bottlenecks e.g. in compute resource / storage / tool licences
• Support the deployment, continual upgrade, and configuration of a diverse range of engineering development tools; including internally developed and 3rd party/open source tooling
• Support engineering/infrastructure team with resource-planning

🎯 Required Skills And Qualifications

• Relevant degree or experience in a Computer Science or Engineering field
• Python and shell scripting
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI / Github & Jenkins
• Experience working in a containerised environment such as Docker / Kubernetes
• Experience managing, supporting, and training other DevOps engineers
• Experience working with secure and distributed systems, including cloud-based systems
• Experience applying secure development and delivery practices
• Excellent understanding of Git branching models and configuration management
• Highly Desirable - Experience of DevOps integrating (soft) hardware IP and firmware IP
• Desirable - experience integrating DevOps processes with other tools e.g. Slack and Jira

🏆Some of the perks of working with us:

• Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development.
• A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do.
• Competitive salary and share option scheme.
• Flexible and hybrid working, and a working from home budget.
• Private health insurance for yourself and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and two wellness weeks).
• 50% gym membership discount.
• The chance to work with a spirited, smart, and friendly team!