Key skills
AWSCloudEC2PrometheusPythonRustTerraformGoBashPulumiEKSGlueOpenTelemetryGitLabGitOpsIstioLinkerdService MeshCI/CDSonarQubeOWASP
About this role
Role Overview
- Take end-to-end ownership of the internal developer platform, identifying bottlenecks in the software delivery lifecycle and building automated solutions to resolve them.
- Architect and evolve standardized deployment patterns that bake in security, compliance, and observability, allowing product teams to focus strictly on business logic.
- Manage the lifecycle of our self-hosted engineering suite (e.g., GitLab), ensuring high availability, performance, and seamless integration with the wider ecosystem.
- Drive the adoption of modern deployment methodologies (such as GitOps) to ensure declarative, reproducible, and audited state management across all environments.
- Building secure, robust software by adhering to secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP) and internal security policies throughout the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building or scaling internal developer platforms or sophisticated CI/CD ecosystems.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native primitives (Compute, Networking, Storage) and the ability to implement them across different providers or hybrid environments.
- Proven ability to manage container orchestration at scale, focusing on abstracting complexity for end-users rather than just "managing clusters."
- Expert-level proficiency in declarative configuration management and modular code design (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi).
- Strong competency in scripting or systems programming (Python, Go, or Bash) to glue disparate systems into a unified platform.
- Experience maintaining and scaling critical engineering tools (e.g., GitLab, Artifactory, or SonarQube) at the enterprise level, including backup/restore and high-availability strategies.
- Proven experience migrating workloads between platforms (e.g., EC2 to EKS, or cross-cloud) with a focus on data integrity and minimal downtime.
- Ability to implement standardized telemetry pipelines (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or ELK) that provide developers with out-of-the-box visibility into their services.
- Familiarity with automated policy enforcement and compliance-as-code (e.g., OPA, Kyverno, or AWS Config) to maintain CyberEssentials+/ISO standards without manual intervention.
- Proficiency in a high-level language (Go, Python, or Rust) to build custom controllers, CLI tools, or API shims that enhance the platform’s capabilities.
- Experience implementing automated cost-attribution and rightsizing logic to ensure the platform remains economically sustainable as it scales.
- Knowledge of service mesh architectures: Istio or Linkerd, for traffic management and mTLS.
- Experience with Official Sensitive and/or Sensitive networks.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- EC2
- Prometheus
- Python
- Rust
- Terraform
- Go
Benefits
- Highly competitive base salary
- Generous equity in EMI share options in a well-funded and growing startup
- 7% employer pension contribution
- Free breakfast and lunch every day; free pizza and beers weekly
- Private health and dental insurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Relocation support
- Access to any resources, equipment and training that you need to do your job in a world-class way
- The opportunity to work with and learn from exceptional colleagues with excellent academic experience and deep industry knowledge