Description
Our vision at AutoRek is to set the new standard in financial data automation. Our platform simplifies highly complex data, automates critical business processes, and manages regulatory change. With flexibility, security, and scalability at our core, we enable our customers to make real-time decisions that drive better business outcomes.
We are seeking a talented Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This team is responsible for architecting the underlying infrastructure that supports our SaaS offering to our customers, internal stakeholders and building the automation that will deploy and configure it. Working with a team of senior engineers, you will bring your experience and technical ability to bear on a wide range of technical challenges to help the business achieve its goals at pace. If you are driven to solve problems, reduce inefficiency, and improve usability through automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions, this is an ideal role for you. This role is varied and challenging, and at a time of significant expansion, this vacancy represents an excellent opportunity to join our organisation.
Key Responsibilities
* You will be hands-on technical, directly engaging with and developing the necessary systems and tools
* Establish strong working relationships across different business units
* You will take requirements from, and build services for, other teams and customers
* Work closely with the Cloud Operations team
* Collaborate to deploy and maintain infrastructure
* Use automation frameworks you and the rest of the Platform Engineering team have built
* Experience with Azure is essential for this role
* Opportunity to evaluate, suggest, and work with new tools as the team matures
* Your time will be mostly dedicated to development work
* Focus on refining and extending automation
* Develop other tooling and services to deploy and maintain customer platforms
* Exploration of new tooling where necessary to enhance productivity
* Documenting the work developed to ensure proper knowledge transfer and maintenance
Key tools you will work with daily include:
* Terraform for infrastructure as code
* Azure DevOps for CI/CD and other development operations
* Git for version control
The successful candidate must be able to travel regularly to either our Glasgow Office - G1 1RE, or our Edinburgh Office, EH12 5HD.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential:
* Understanding of common networking concepts (VNETs, subnets, DNS, WAF, etc.)
Cloud hosting models:
* Infrastructure-as-a-Service (e.g. Windows VM-based)
* Platform-as-a-Service (Azure App Service, Azure SQL)
Languages:
* Terraform
* Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML)
* PowerShell
Tooling:
* Azure DevOps
* Terraform Cloud
Version control:
* Git
Operating Systems:
* Windows
* Linux
Desirable:
* Exposure to Security tooling (SIEM)
* Understanding of software development principles (particularly, Agile)
* Infrastructure-as-Code
* Config-as-Code
* Understanding of virtualisation, containerisation, & container orchestration
* Understanding of highly available, resilient architectures
Languages:
* Ansible
* Bash
* Python
* Azure PowerShell / Azure CLI
Database technologies:
* Microsoft SQL Server
* Azure SQL
Why work for us?
Our people make AutoRek and we want to support and show our appreciation to our people by providing the following:
* Generous 34-day holiday package including 8 public holidays
* Your Birthday off courtesy of AutoRek
* Discretionary bonus scheme
* 4% employee and employer pension scheme
* Income protection
* Private health care; extending to members of your household
* Free access to Bippit - Financial well-being advisors
* High-street discount codes
* Access to learning platforms and training courses
AutoRek is a financial data management platform enabling companies to streamline and automate complex and high-volume data management and controls processes. Our customers range from innovative FinTech start-ups to many of the UK and the world’s largest and established banks, asset managers and insurance companies. Digital data and financial transaction volumes are growing exponentially, this combined with increasing regulatory obligations is driving the demand for improved efficiencies, better control, and management of risk across the financial services industry. The AutoRek platform meets these demands and more and that is why we continue to be a leading player in the market.