Infrastructure Automation: Set up infrastructure components using Terraform (via Terragrunt) with maintainability, scalability & reliability in mind
Developer Tooling: Tooling and processes to support product squads in increasing the speed, reliability and visibility of their development workflows
Observability: Tooling and processes to improve monitoring, logging, events and tracing at both the infrastructure and application layer
Collaborating: Working with product squads to deliver infrastructure to support new services/features in a secure and scalable manner
Resource Optimization: Working to right-size our services and implement features such as auto-scaling to increase the cost effectiveness of our platform and reduce waste
Security: Collaborating with the security squad on projects to increase our security posture, such as improving our least privilege approach to IAM roles for users and services
Documentation: Maintaining clear and up-to-date documentation for systems and procedures to increase product squad self-service

Have built cost-effective, secure systems in AWS
you understand the trade-offs between different services and can make pragmatic infrastructure decisions.
Are comfortable with containerized applications (we run on ECS/Fargate) and have used Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform to manage cloud resources.
Have worked extensively with monitoring and observability tools (we use Datadog and Sentry) and know how to debug issues in production.
Can write solid shell and Python scripts to automate common tasks and build internal tooling.
Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
you can explain complex infrastructure decisions to product teams and leadership.
Nice-to-haves, but not deal-breakers: Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs and helping product teams track service reliability.
Background working in ISO 27001 or SOC2 compliant environments.
Advanced Python development skills (our platform team maintains Python tooling deployed via Lambda).

Competitive base salary + equity, so you own what you build
£100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you, whether that's Netflix, Spotify, or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by €50 for each year of service until you reach €250
£500 work from home allowance to help you set yourself up for success, whether that's a standing desk, a comfy chair, or the tech setup that works best for you
£1,000 annual L&D budget to invest in your professional development, from conferences and courses to coaching and books
28 days of holidays a year plus bank holidays, and an option to buy or sell 2 days per year. Also, your annual holiday entitlement will increase to 30 days after your 3rd year of service!
Day off for your birthday
Comprehensive and tailored mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider
Work-from-abroad scheme, so you can support your travels, enjoy an extended holiday, or visit loved ones.
Enhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting
Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance
Funded Life Assurance cover with the option to voluntarily increase
this also includes an annual health check

Platform Engineer

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