Job Description:
A little about the team and role
We need to build a world-class, self-service platform, this means you'll be working with smart people, who really make things happen! With an ambitious and progressive approach to engineering, this is an environment where you can truly influence the vision, direction and technology strategy.
Your role will be pivotal in designing and building products that enable our engineers to deploy, run and observe the services powering our brand. As a Senior Engineer you will have responsibility for driving the standards and approaches your team embodies and will strongly influence how your products evolve to meet business needs. You'll write code, leverage open-source and managed products, optimise and iterate your architecture as it travels from laptop to production. Your expert insight and contributions in team reflections and ceremonies will be key in ensuring we continually learn, improve and develop ourselves alongside our products.
The team's products are built in AWS, and our primary tools are Terraform, Git, Linux and code – typically Bash, Python or Go.
Our roles are for specific pillars that are aligned to specific products and skillsets and these include:
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Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Linux, Go, GoCD, Bash, Core Services, Networking, Cloudflare, Packer
- Compute & Security: Kubernetes (Kops and EKS), Helm
- Storage & Messaging: MongoDB, Kafka, RDS, RabbitMQ, S3, Data Loss Prevention tools
- DevEx & Observability: CICD, GitHub, Docker, Node.js, OpsWorks, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
You will:
- Work with your Engineering Manager and Technical Product Manager to understand the - 'Why' and 'What', and own delivery of the 'How'
- Collaborate with your peers to iteratively build out the products, and feed back into their ongoing roadmap
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions; work with junior members of the team to develop your soft skills and their hard ones
- Spot opportunities to leverage automation and code that eliminate toil
- Learn and develop your abilities in coding, architecture and engineering practices for the cloud
- Utilise, extend and contribute to open-source projects used by the team
What we want to see from you:
- Excellent design and deployment solutions for testable and repeatable secure cloud infrastructure and services
- Ability to design complete, secure and observable solutions that enable our developers to self-serve
- Strong experience with core cloud technologies such as AWS & Terraform
- Strong experience with DevOps & SRE patterns and delivery of cloud solutions that follow them
- Excellent knowledge of the core Linux, Networking, and Internet principles that underpin everything you do
- A willingness to come up with new ideas, experiment, fail, learn and develop - and share that knowledge with peers across the wider team
- A desire to contribute to internal and community open-source products
Diversity and Inclusion
We're a diverse community of dedicated, innovative and talented professionals. With an inclusive and open workplace, we encourage our people to create and share ideas – supporting their growth and celebrating their uniqueness.
We are committed to offering equal chances to you throughout the application process, so if you require any special adjustments to be made, please let us know. We will work with you to make any appropriate arrangements.
Company Benefits
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working culture (mixture of remote and state of the art office spaces)
- Brilliant office space made for collaboration and agile working
- Competitive salaries based on experience, expertise and qualifications
- Bonus scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Wellbeing programme focused on physical, emotional and financial wellbeing
- Private health care
- Free fruit in our offices
- An onsite gym at our headquarters in Peterborough - and a gym discount scheme for those based in London
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
- Plus, loads more through our flexible benefits hub
Interview Process
- Phone call with recruiter (30 mins)
- 1st interview with Engineering Manager (45 mins)
- Final Interview with team - pairing, system design & competency questions (2 hours)
