Senior Platform Engineer
RVU
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cardiff • United Kingdom
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About the role
- 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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Hard Skills & Tools
Cloud platformsAzureplatform engineeringreliability engineeringSREKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesAPIscontainersperformance optimisation
Soft Skills
collaborationmentoringcoachingautonomydata drivenproblem solvingeffective communicationtime managementcontinuous learningrelationship building