Senior Platform Engineer at Confused.com enhancing tech-driven solutions across product teams. Collaborating with cross-functional disciplines to deliver high-quality, scalable systems.
Responsibilities
Excellence: work alongside established and experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding and utilisation of modern technology
Collaboration: work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
Autonomy: authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
Data Driven: utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security and reliability
Culture: enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch-ups, working groups, and 'All Hands'
Experience: enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge and expertise in a continuous learning environment.
As a key member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:
Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
Responsible for the entire stack to meet business requirements
Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
Mentoring and coaching engineers, and presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation.
Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
Manage your time effectively between team and organisational level contributions
Rotate around the business to build relationships and help upskill other engineers/teams
Requirements
Experience working in large and small agile teams of engineers, working together to solve problems, deliver outcomes, and in building and operating highly available, scale and performant consumer-facing solutions
Experience of building and designing cost optimised Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) from the ground up, following well architected principles
Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches (SRE), including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics and security best practices
Experience developing and rolling out Service Level Objectives across an organisation and using them to drive error budgets and alerting
Deep knowledge and experience with operating containers at scale within the Kubernetes ecosystem
Experience in building robust, fault-tolerant systems and identifying areas for improvement all in the support of maintaining reliability standards
Knowledge of incident and problem management practices
Proficiency in the software development lifecycle, including testing, version control, branching strategies and deployments approaches
Pragmatic approach to deliver effective solutions to address business & consumer challenges
Experience building and designing APIs or CLIs that solve internal problems or deliver self-service solutions for engineers
Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily.
Benefits
10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
Private medical cover, critical illness cover, dental plans and employee assistance programme
Free gym access
Employee discounts programme
A healthy learning and training budget to support your development
Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.
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