Hybrid Senior Platform Engineer

at RVU

• Job title: Senior Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, Kubernetes
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cardiff, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Platform Engineer at Confused.com enhancing tech-driven solutions across product teams. Collaborating with cross-functional disciplines to deliver high-quality, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.