Desired Skills and Experience

  • Engineer tools that improve production & deployment capabilities for all teams; solutions that provide scalable foundations to building high-performing services
  • Work on defined assignments directly with teams that aim to give their operations a boost, leaving documentation and skills in place when you leave
  • Contribute to on-call support as an escalation point, providing guidance & coaching to teams enabling a ‘you build it, you run it’ model
  • Align with the rest of Production Operations in driving operational excellence & best practices around service performance, deployment, monitoring and availability
  • Strong background in Linux systems
  • Extensive software engineering and system design experience
  • SRE knowledge and skills
  • Distributed systems and data streaming architecture
  • AWS / GCP experience at scale
  • CD/CI tooling & continuous delivery best practices
  • Network & Security knowledge
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Experience in scripting languages and automation practices
  • Demonstrable experience across Devops skillsets in agile and XP environments
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
  • Whilst experience is important, ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude; we see Production Engineering as a mindset
  • Ability to articulate improvements within software engineering for operational benefit
  • An inquisitive and curious approach, with confidence to tackle difficult problems
  • Rapid adoptee of merit-proven new approaches & technologies
  • Problem solver / structured thinker
  • Patient and tenacious
  • Always happy to help and a natural sharer of knowledge
  • Sunday Times’ top 20 list of the best companies to work for
  • The opportunity to get involved with conferences, meet-ups, hackathons, tech talks and teaching kids to code
  • A clearly defined career path
  • Open plan office in Notting Hill
  • Free breakfast every day and lunch on Fridays
  • Lots of social events
  • Training budget
  • Matched volunteering and matched fundraising

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