Desired Skills and Experience

  • Lead our Platform Engineering team which includes developers with a responsibility in Ops from our Product Teams
  • Build platform products and tools and improve existing ones
  • Take part in decisions related to how we undertake new projects
  • Work closely with our fellow engineers, designers, PMs and others
  • Challenge our engineering teams to improve their design choices
  • Manage our Amazon Web Services infrastructure using many of their products
  • Manage and support our on-call process with our engineers
  • Delights in readable, well-designed, well-tested scripts
  • Experience with TDD environments (ideally using PHP/React: Codeception, PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Enzyme, Jest, Nightwatch, Cypress)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Jenkins)
  • Experience with Logging/Monitoring (Datadog or New Relic/Papertrail)
  • Experience with relational databases (ideally MySQL/Redshift/Snowflake)
  • Experience with “infrastructure as code” using Cloudformation and Chef (Ruby)
  • Experience/interest in Docker/ECS
  • Experience with tuning Wordpress or a CMS and performance using CDN (Fastly/Cloudfront/Cloudflare)
  • Experience designing resilient networks/infrastructure
  • Experience with disaster recovery and “chaos” testing
  • Experience of Security best-practice (least privilege and separation of duties)
  • Professional experience writing web-based applications and a willingness to quickly get up to speed on our stack (PHP/Python)
  • Containerisation and infrastructure management
  • Microservice architectures
  • Pen-testing
  • AWS cloud and the relevant “DevOps” services and tools
  • Front-end web technology, bonus points for React
  • Web architecture at scale
  • “NoSQL” data backends (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
  • PHP expert
  • Experience solving logistical problems with software
  • Drive to be World Class
  • Work Smart, Deliver Fast
  • Love Innovation
  • Help Others Succeed
  • Earn Trust
  • Inspire Positivity
  • £Competitive
  • £1000 Training Budget per annum
  • Unlimited Book Allowance
  • Charity Days
  • Free food and fruit throughout the day
  • Relaxed, informal culture - no dress code
  • Hours 9-5 Monday-Friday - they promote a work/life balance culture
  • Monthly companywide lunches
  • Gaming and book clubs
  • Sports clubs including Football, Running, Volleyball, and Cycling
  • Corporate gym membership
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Family First culture
  • Regular social nights out
  • Trips to Ibiza for all staff on achieving annual targets

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