Own and evolve our AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and ease of use for product teams.
Design and build opinionated, self-service tooling that makes it easy for engineers to build, deploy, and operate services correctly.
Continuously reduce manual work (toil) by automating common workflows and standardising infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and platform abstractions.
Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards that provide meaningful signals without overwhelming teams.
Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to understand and improve the reliability of their services across environments.
Own and evolve our continuous delivery and release capabilities, reducing time to production while maintaining high standards of reliability and safety.
Stay current with best practices in application hosting, continuous delivery, and developer experience, and apply them pragmatically to the platform.
Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team.
Requirements
Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale.
Strong experience with AWS in a production environment.
Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms, with a strong intuition for actionable vs noisy signals.
Experience working with platform-level security controls and observability, including identifying and responding to abnormal or unsafe system behaviour.
Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems that support safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments.
Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment and improving systems based on what you learn.
Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
Proficient with at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.
Enjoy solving complex, cross-cutting problems in collaboration with engineers across the organisation
Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and priorities.
Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and the wider engineering organisation.
Tech Stack
AWS
Benefits
A competitive salary
BUPA health insurance
Discounted gym membership through BUPA
OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
Hybrid working
Pension scheme
Motorway car leasing scheme
lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
Enhanced parental leave
We offer enhanced maternity pay (26 weeks of full pay) and enhanced paternity pay (4 weeks of full pay) to eligible employees.