This job will be advertised for the month of April, closing on Tuesday 30th April.
We are open to applications from pre-university, undergrad sandwich course and "Year in Industry" candidates - this internship is not open to Graduates.
Founded in 2014 in London, United Kingdom, Garrison has raised more than $50m to date from London investors including Dawn Capital, IP Group, NM Capital and BGF. Garrison’s strengths lie in its experienced and dedicated teams, building on years of expertise in cyber security to bring genuinely game changing technology to the industry.
Garrison is working to build the future of cyber security and is already deploying at scale in both the government and commercial space. Our existing customers are large organisations averaging over 50,000 employees each, across sectors including banking, insurance, media, telco, law and government.
Our working culture
We are an award-winning start-up with ground-breaking technology; a very serious mission to solve real world problems, but with a positive and highly inclusive atmosphere, an excellent work/life balance, and an exciting future ahead.
At Garrison we celebrate diversity and inclusion, and we’re focused on continuously improving equality for the benefit of our employees, products and community. We recruit, develop and retain talent purely on the basis of qualifications, merit and business needs.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take every possible step to ensure that every person employed or seeking employment with us receives fair treatment. No-one shall be disadvantaged on the grounds of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital and parental status, neurodiversity, social background, physical ability, illness or otherwise.
Overview of the role
We are offering a fantastic opportunity to work within Garrison’s Engineering department as part of the DevOps team – specifically we are seeking an ambitious and hardworking individual looking for hands-on experience within a unique and highly innovative company, and the opportunity to develop within the organisation.
You will work closely with the Head of Delivery & DevOps and the other DevOps Engineers in the team to help support the continuous improvement of workflows, practices and processes employed by the wider engineering team, as well as contributing to continuous integration, deployment, testing/automation, and product engineering.
Garrison has a challenging, supportive and fast-moving working, and as a steadily growing and agile company there is plenty of room for personal development. Our technology stack ranges from bespoke hardware, FPGAs and embedded software, to mobile and desktop applications, web services and AWS. You’ll receive ample guidance for new tasks, but day-to-day we’re autonomous, organized and proactive.
Key Responsibilities
- Contributing to developing tools and enhancing infrastructure that automate the process of building, integrating and testing our products.
- Supporting the engineering team in developing, integrating and automating tests
- Helping to gather metrics on the performance and efficiency of our engineering and processes.
- Assisting in developing new pipelines for software and firmware build and integration.
- Improving code maintainability and supportability.
- Supporting the maintenance of scripts to automate routine development activities.
- Investigating new technologies and performing rapid prototyping to support technical de-risking and discover new opportunities for design improvements.
- Promoting a “DevOps mindset” across the engineering team.
Skills & Experience
- Keen interest in tech and/or cybersecurity industry.
- Some skills in scripting with Python or Bash, and ideally a basic knowledge of version control systems such as Git.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts would be desirable.
- Some minimal exposure to testing would be preferred.
- Able to multi-task and collaborate with multiple teams effectively.
- Pro-active and able to work well independently as well as part of a wider team.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Detail-oriented, highly organised, proactive, pragmatic, good time management skills.
What we can offer you in return!
- 25 days holiday allowance per year (with the opportunity to buy or sell up to 5 days)
- Personal annual training budget
- Perkbox discounts and freebies – free coffee, free cinema tickets, and lots more
- Life assurance and critical illness cover
- Bike to work scheme and an interest-free season ticket loans
- Regular socials – games nights, open air cinema, quiz night & company picnic all recent examples!
- And free fruit, tea and coffee in our offices!
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