Staff Platform Engineer

Role Overview

• 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.
• 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 act as a multiplier.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in running Kubernetes clusters in production
• Knowledge of Golang, Helm and Terraform (some knowledge of Python is definitely a plus)
• Production experience in Cilium and/or eBPF and networking in general
• Extensive experience in monitoring systems and their performance
• The ability to debug large and complex systems and solving large problems that affect a wide user base in a simple way
• Experience with image vulnerability scanning and patching strategies for large systems
• Experience / Familiarity with AWS Multi Accounts system designs tools like Crossplane and Control Tower
• Familiarity with Argo Workflows or similar data pipeline as a service tools
• Familiarity working with a variety of Cloud Native projects
• Familiarity with Github Action
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Terraform
• Go

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 with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events
• from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.