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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