What's involved?
This is a varied technical role requiring extensive experience in both Platform and Software engineering with a particular focus on the building, delivering and monitoring of applications running on Kubernetes and AWS Cloud. Day to day, you could be applying yourself to anything from Platform architectural design or AWS Cloud management using Pulumi, to debugging CI/CD performance of Docker wrapped apps or integrating a JavaScript authentication library into our product sites.
You should be comfortable leading on projects, debugging complicated systems and have an appreciation for the need to occasionally set project work to one side to debug and fix high priority issues in real time.
You'll need a passion for your work, along with a desire to help others progress their technical skills through close collaboration, coaching and mentoring.
Must have
Production-grade infrastructure engineering
AWS (EKS/EC2/S3/IAM)
Kubernetes / Docker
Infrastructure as Code - Pulumi with TypeScript
Production-grade software engineering
TypeScript / JavaScript / application development
JS framework experience - express / Astro or similar
Code management and version control - git and GitLab
Production-grade DevOps engineering
CI/CD - GitLab Pipelines and AutoDevOps
Observability - DataDog and CloudWatch
CDN configuration - CloudFlare
Nice to have
Internal Developer Platform experience - Backstage or similar
Cloud FinOps - DataDog, AWS
Security - for Platforms and web applications
Task orchestration for monorepos - turbo, Nx or similar
JS build tooling - vite, webpack, rollup or similar
Front end development - React
Experience building/configuring auth libraries/services
Experience working in, and/or setting up, an ISO governed environment
Other Cloud Platforms - Google Cloud Platform
Linux knowledge / Bash scripting
Who you'll be working with
The Platform Team currently consists of two Platform Engineers, two QA Engineers and a Platform Manager.
Be yourself
We want to build a fair, respectful and welcoming company, where everyone feels at home. That means taking a long-term approach to equality, diversity and inclusion – not treating it as a tickbox exercise.
With the help of our EDI group, we're working to make every aspect of the business – including recruitment – fair, respectful and inclusive.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Pension – up to 6% employer contribution
Medical and dental insurance (BUPA)
Hybrid working – typically 3 days in the office during onboarding, then 1–2 days per week
Up to 12% discretionary bonus
25 days annual leave
5 days of professional development paid for by the company
Death in service benefit
Flexible holiday benefits
Cycle scheme (fully funded by the company)
EV scheme (conditions apply)
*You need to have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we can't offer sponsorship either now or in the future
*No agency approaches please, we are only hiring directly