Deployment Engineer

Ripjar specialises in the development of software and data products that help governments and organisations combat serious financial crime. Our technology is used to identify criminal activity such as money laundering and terrorist financing, enabling organisations to enforce sanctions at scale to help combat rogue entities and state actors.

Team Mission

Ripjar’s Engineering team builds software products that make the world safer. We work together, mixing creativity with technology and engineering excellence to solve problems that nobody else can.

Our customers – including global financial institutions, corporations and technology companies – rely on our Screening product to monitor millions of client records, counterparties and prospects for sanctions, AML/CTF and other risks against billions of data points in near-real time.

Ripjar’s unique approach to name and adverse media screening – using AI Risk Profiles – provides our customers with world leading capability, recognised by Chartis as a Category Leader in KYC Solutions. We continue to innovate at pace the compliance sector, pioneering the responsible use of AI with our Screening Assistant.

The role

We are seeking a Deployment Engineer to help deliver and operate our software platforms across customer environments.

In this role you will work with engineering and delivery teams to ensure Ripjar’s products can be deployed reliably, consistently, and efficiently. You will contribute to the tooling, automation, and processes used to package, deploy, and support our platforms across cloud and on-premise environments.

This role combines elements of deployment engineering, infrastructure automation, and operational support. It is well suited to engineers who enjoy working across infrastructure and applications, improving deployment workflows, and supporting complex distributed systems in production.

Key Tasks

• Support the deployment and integration of Ripjar’s Screening software.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of deployment automation and tooling.
• Assist with packaging and releasing platform components for SaaS and enterprise deployments.
• Work with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and operational processes.
• Support environments used for development, testing, and production workloads.
• Investigate and resolve issues relating to deployment, configuration, and infrastructure.
• Develop scripts and tooling to automate operational and deployment tasks.
• Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to support successful customer implementations.

Requirements

We are looking for engineers with strong technical fundamentals and experience working with software deployments and infrastructure.

You should have experience in several of the following areas:

• Supporting or implementing software deployments in production environments across cloud and on-premise.

• Working with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows

• Administering Linux-based systems

• Writing scripts or automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages

• Working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Troubleshooting issues across infrastructure, configuration, and application layers.

• Collaborating with engineering teams to diagnose and resolve operational issues

Beneficial Skills

Experience with any of the following would be beneficial but is not required:

• Container platforms such as Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform
• Data platforms such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch
• Messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
• Deploying or supporting distributed systems
• Supporting enterprise deployments

Benefits

Why we think you’ll enjoy it here

• Competitive base salary per year DOE
• Fully remote working
• 25 days annual leave + your birthday off, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service
• 35 hour working week
• Flexible working hours
• Life assurance
• Company Share Scheme
• 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
• Offices equipped with well-stocked pantries with food, snacks and drinks when in the office