Lead Site Reliability Engineer 🇧🇪🇫🇷

Who we are
elyps is an invite-only fintech super app combining a neobank with a lifestyle marketplace, gathering a community of users caring about global warming.
All elyps customers are shareholders, for free.

Our History
Early 2017, when he discovered blockchain technology, Vincent decided to leave San Francisco to return to Europe to create elyps. After having met the Belgian financial authorities in late 2017 to create a new kind of bank, Mat, a Mobile & Fintech specialist joined Vincent to found elyps. After 30 months of fury, elyps is ready to launch!

Our Mission
Have a positive climate impact by influencing daily actions through behavioral and transactional data.

Manifesto
• Just focus on users interest
• Consider users as important as you
• Do everything impossible to save time and improve the lifestyle of our users
• Offer free equity to users to install an unwavering trust
• Gather our community around a common mission
• Influence global warming reduction
• Decentralisation is the new freedom
• 10 times better is not enough
• High motivation and overdelivery are essential

The Opportunity
As an innovative Lead SRE, you’ll see your ideas come to life. Your mission is to create an innovative Cloud strategy and lead the implementation of the most secure operating framework within the banking space. Your hands-on knowledge in cloud computing, system design, application development and operational stability will help Elyps to deliver the best in class mobile banking product never been built. We are looking for an individual who takes ownership of his / her area of expertise and who is driven to solve problems at every level.

What you will be doing
You will build Elyps' infrastructure from the ground up, making it ready for scalability, service reliability, capacity and performance.
You will write automation code for provisioning and operating infrastructure at massive scale, aiming for 100% automation in DevOps processes.
You will develop and enable continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) for automation system components.
You will enforce security best practices that are compliant with the banking industry regulation.
You will roll up the sleeves to troubleshoot incidents, formulate theories, test your hypothesis, and narrow down possibilities to find the root cause.
As we scale, you will manage a small team of highly skilled SRE and create a low stress, growth-oriented culture.
You will work with development teams to make sure the applications fit nicely within the infrastructure and scalability/reliability is designed and implemented from scratch.
You will work with QA on building pipelines and automation for delivering and deploying applications to production.
You will participate in the on-call rotation supporting the infrastructure.
You build tools for yourself and others to increase efficiency and to make hard or repetitive tasks easy and quick.
You will continuously explore new technologies that will make automation and scale a reality.

Your background
You have previously worked as SRE / DevOps in a start-up environment and/or in financial services.
You have experience in building fault-tolerant and scalable systems.
You have solid commercial experience with automation using Terraform.

Hard Skills
You are not an operator, you’re an experienced software engineer focused on operations.
You are managed DevTest (Pre-Production) and customer-facing Production environment.
You have previous experience managing multiple Clouds; AWS, Azure and/or GCP is a plus.
You have a strong understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker container-orchestration technology.
You have strong knowledge around Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
You are passionate about innovation and the word blockchain does not scare you.

Soft Skills
Customer centric
Environmental awareness
Motivation
Autonomy
Resilience
Flexibility
Problem solving
Teamwork
Initiative
Innovation
Resourcefulness
Curiosity
Critical thinking
Aspiration & Self Improvement
Scalability
Inspire people
Leadership
Growth mindset
Focus mastery
Stress-Management
Get Comfortable with Chaos
Culture awareness

Compensation & Benefits
Package : 80,000 € - 120,000 €
Our gross salary range for the role is 40,000 € - 60,000 € per annum depending on experience
Stock Options: We double your gross salary with stock options
Biannual equity bonuses
The latest Apple MacBook and 27' screen with comfort view
Roll with a free elyps Premium subscription
1 day of remote work per week
5 to 10 days off in addition to the statutory holidays
Pension plan
Private Health Insurance
Relocation package and visa sponsorship for international talents (we already have 8+ nationalities)
Additional employee benefits coming soon

Hiring Porcess
Video-call interview with our talent acquisition manager (30 min approx.)
Video-call interview with your future manager (45 min. approx.)
A home-task / Business case challenge to evaluate your hard skills
Onsite interviews with future team members (1:30 hours approx.)
Meeting with Founders
Offer follows within 48 hours

Thank you for considering to join elyps. We cannot wait to learn more about you!

elyps has a growing-team working behind the scene with an extensive experience in financial services and the expertise of successfully dealing with the pains of scaling high-growth tech products.

You will be working in a fast-paced environment with talented and ambitious people, all passionate in taking part of building a game-changing company that impacts positively on people’s lives. We are devoted to build a diverse work environment where our employees are motivated and proud every single day.