Who are we?

We are Penneo, and we are on a mission to scale!

At Penneo, we want to build a world where you can trust the way businesses do business.

Penneo combines digital signing and Know Your Customer (KYC) workflows into a single platform that streamlines critical business processes for anti-money-laundering regulated B2B companies.

Founded in Copenhagen and operating throughout Europe, Penneo is fast becoming the go-to platform for companies looking to save time on administrative tasks while ensuring complete regulatory compliance and peace of mind for themselves and their clients.

Following our listing on Nasdaq Copenhagen Main Market in April 2022, we are now more than ever in a position to execute our European expansion strategy and scale our operations to maximize value to our existing and future customers.

Who are we looking for?

At Penneo, we are always looking to forge new long-term relationships with people who resonate with our culture and values and are passionate about getting Penneo to the next level.

Do you want to be part of it?

We are now hiring a Junior DevOps Engineer who will work with the rest of the team to facilitate the building and operations of the Platform; you will be mentored directly on the tools and techniques used in this GitOps centric team. As you grow in your skill set you will be expected to pick up your own projects and grow towards becoming a Senior Platform Engineer.

You will report to our Director of Platform and have our awesome Engineering Teams as your closest collaborators.

This is a full-time position at our Penneo HQ in Copenhagen, Denmark.

About the team

Previously called “Infrastructure Team”, The Platform Team was rebranded to better fit our ambitions to build a platform that can be used across products to enable our engineers to be more independent.

To fit the growth of our Engineering department, we want to scale the Platform team to meet the demands of the other product teams. The good news is that joining a growing team will give you the opportunity to shape how this team evolves, which best practices to follow, and establish ways of working. The Platform team is growing and is currently formed by the Director of Platform and two Senior Platform Engineers. The Engineering team consists of 20+ people, and zooming out, Penneo as a whole, recently became a 110+ people company.

What would be your responsibilities?

A big part of your role will be developing, deploying, and maintaining DevOps tooling and Infrastructure to make the software delivery system run smoothly. This also involves building reusable components, creating new and maintaining existing environments.

Supporting the development teams in getting code into production and providing them with the needed self service tooling to accelerate their daily work.

You will be expected to design, plan and implement, taking into account security, reliability and performance into account, as most of our services are used around the clock.

You will also be expected to:

• Design well-architected solutions, based on proven design patterns or paradigms.
• Lead initiatives to improve any aspect of the Platform like reliability, performance, security, costs, etc.
• Approach challenges in a creative and innovative manner, always trying to find the best solution for each requirement.
• Collaborate closely with others, specially but not limited to product teams, developers, and senior management.
• Keep up to speed with emerging technologies, learn new skills (how to make use of them too!), and follow multiple work streams in parallel.
• Build and evolve our incident management processes, to ensure that we know how to react if something stops working.

What makes you a great match?

Even though we appreciate your experience with other technologies and tools, we are currently specifically looking for someone that has experience with the following:

• Cloud Providers: Amazon Web Services (at least IAM, EC2, RDS, Route53, EBS, S3; extra points if you have worked with EFS, CloudHSM, MSK, CloudFront, ACM, and more).
• Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform, and CloudFormation (extra points if you have experience with TFSec, CheckOV, OpenPolicyAgent).
• CI/CD Platforms: GitHub Actions (TravisCI is a plus).
• Kubernetes: Service Meshes (Istio preferred), CNIs, Runtime Security, CRDs, Operators, Sidecars, etc.
• Logging: Loki, ElasticSearch 
• Metrics: Prometheus and CloudWatch (experience with Thanos is a plus)
• Tracing: Jaeger, OpenTelemetry (experience with Grafana Tempo is a plus)
• Cloud Networking: Experience with L3/L4 Firewalls, Routing, and IPSec VPNs (BGP, AWS Transit Gateway, and DirectConnect are a plus). Knowledge of Juniper Routing/Switching are nice to have.
• Software Engineering: Experience with Python 3, Go, Node.js, Java, Kotlin and its ecosystems are nice to have.
• PKI:  Experience with OpenSSL, certificate lifecycle are a plus.

Every engineer has a unique mix of skills and experience, we will definitely take into consideration any relevant experience outside the ones mentioned above. The list above aims to showcase what kind of talent we are looking for. If you want deeper insights into our stack, check https://stackshare.io/penneo/platform

How will this role progress?

It is important to us to be as transparent as possible and to allow you to level expectations for the role. Therefore, we share our impact description in advance and would love your thoughts about it in your cover letter.

During the 1st month, you will:  

• Meet your new colleagues and understand who is doing what;
• Get comfortable with the day-to-day operations of the Platform Engineering Team;
• Understand the problems Penneo solves for customers;
• Fulfill onboarding requirements, obtain credentials and required accesses;
• Get acquainted with the Platform Engineering team’s Roadmap;
• Improve or add missing documentation while going through the setup and onboarding process;
• Make your first contribution to the platform codebase.

Within 3 months, you will: 

• Contribute individually to changes in at least two different engineering teams;
• Familiarize yourself with the architectures of all products;
• Identify opportunities to automate processes throughout the software development lifecycle.

Within 6 months, you will:  

• Feel comfortable working with most of the products and engineering teams;
• Be able to propose, plan and execute improvements from the platform roadmap;
• Understand how to troubleshoot bugs and handle incidents in production environments;
• Have the confidence and knowledge to onboard and mentor other team members.

Within 12 months, you will:  

• Have contributed individually to our products and the platform;
• Be considered a referent within the team’s areas of expertise (like networking, cloud, CI/CD, container technologies, etc.);
• Act as the stakeholder of specific projects within the team, planning, executing, and following-up on any required tasks.

At this point, we want to support you in expressing your ambitious growth aspirations, and we're eager to learn on the journey with you. It all depends on your capabilities for continuous learning and, equally important - your dreams for the future.
By now, we hope you're sitting with a smile on your face, ready to apply and contribute to the Penneo adventure.

Best of success with your application!

We are screening and interviewing on an ongoing basis. If you are interested in any of our roles, please do not hesitate to submit your application.

Penneo is an equal-opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, hiring, and promotion are based on merit and business needs. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression.

Please be aware that if hired, as part of our Background check, we require a copy of your criminal record. We do that to ensure that we remain a trusted service provider and partner as well as to comply with relevant compliance requirements such as ISO27001.
 

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