Endpoints News

Endpoints News is a media company covering the most critical developments for leaders across the biopharma world. Launched in 2015, Endpoints News has become the way drug development executives stay informed. Reported by a global team of journalists — led by co-founder John Carroll & Executive Editor Drew Armstrong — Endpoints covers news as it happens and delivers an inimitable twice-daily email report to an engaged audience in the business of discovering, researching, marketing, and regulating biotech drugs. In April, 2023, the Financial Times took a controlling stake in Endpoints News.

Financial Times

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of 1.2 million, more than one million of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.

The Opportunity

You will work alongside a team of high-performing engineers, you will be entrusted with leading initiatives crucial for Endpoints’ system uptime, release management, infrastructure design, network security, and support.

A high focus on automation and efficiency between platforms and services in an open source technology environment and looking to improve our existing cloud infrastructure (AWS).

Role and Responsibilities

With a track record in DevOps and Software development, you are a technology enthusiast who takes pride in creating rock solid solutions to deploy software at scale and velocity.

Responsibilities also include architectural and solution design, performance monitoring, security and governance, and occasional troubleshooting to resolve issues - as and when required!

• AWS focus - ECS, EKS, S3, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, RDS
• Containerisation/Microservice based architecture
• Version control solutions - Git/GitHub
• Docker, Kubernetes/EKS
• CDN/WAF Solutions - Cloudfront
• Ownership of Build/Deployment tasks and see them through to completion independently.
• Develop and implement strategies to optimise AWS costs while ensuring high availability, reliability, and scalability of services.
• Working with other engineers to create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for various components of Endpoints product services.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation on infrastructure, processes, and best practices
• Work with Tech lead  and Engineering Management to define and implement standards across our platforms
• Working with our group security team to implement security and governance controls

Qualifications

• Experience with automation / building infrastructure as code
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services
• Knowledgeable on Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD, Jenkins)
• Experience and expertise in EKS, Kubernetes and Helm
• Proficiency in English, both orally and in writing
• The ability to work well under pressure
• Knowledge of TDD and/or BDD 

Personal competencies

• Highly collaborative, quickly builds trust and respect
• Strong desire to share your knowledge with the rest of the team.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Proactive issue and risk management approach
• Able to adopt to rapidly changing situations
• Attention to detail
• Delivery focused, and results driven

The pay range for this position is BGN 53,000-82,000, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, and job-related knowledge.

All applicants must be eligible to work in Bulgaria.

Endpoints News is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Endpoints News operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.