Platform Engineer at IMG ARENA

Job Description:

IMG ARENA’s engineering community are looking to minimise the challenges of shipping, rapidly iterating, and securing their applications. As a Platform Engineer, you will collaborate with people across the business, from agile development teams to business stakeholders, with the responsibility of designing, implementing and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. You will ensure adherence to security, best practice and standards for all application development, deployment and testing practices. You will design, develop, update and promote standards within the lifecycle management platform, making use of modern software practices such as “infrastructure as code”. You help the engineering community learn and grow as industry best practices for DevOps evolve.

What will you be doing?

• Design, develop, and manage cloud-based infrastructure at scale (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• Partner with developers to balance performance and resilience, while helping automate build/deploy process (e.g. Jenkins, Github Actions)
• Manage and maintain standards for DevOps tools used across the organisation
• Contribute to future design/architecture solutions that directly impact the business
• Maintain security first mindset to help support applications across the organisation
• Share knowledge with peers and developers to maintain standards
• Implement and manage automated testing for infrastructure and tooling

What have you done?

• AWS experience (e.g. EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, Cloudfront)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Container Orchestration tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (e.g. Prometheus/Thanos, Loki, Jaeger, Tempo, Grafana)
• Knowledge of Linux and scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Golang) is a bonus
• Analytical mind with problem-solving skills
• Approachable and a proficient communicator across organisational levels of technical and non-technical

Company Benefits

• Life Insurance
• Pension
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income Protection
• Season Ticket Loan
• Dental Insurance
• Cycle To Work
• Eye Care
• Will Writing
• Give As You Earn
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Wellness
• Gym Membership

Interview Process

1.Technical interview with Lead Engineer - 45 minutes

2.Live tech exercise with Lead and Senior Engineer - 90 minutes

3.Culture fit call with Head Of - 30 minutes