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Description
At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi's look first.
We have a great opportunity for an Intermediate Cloud Engineer to join the Trade Me Payments team, who process around $1 billion a year. You will play an important role in maintaining and optimising a number of our applications in the Cloud. This role is also expected to look after the automated processes to maintain and monitor our large-scale, distributed and fault-tolerant applications in AWS, and pass on this knowledge to the other members of the Payments team.
You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:
#Flexible Flexible working is the new normal. We have our company connection day on Monday and there is another team connection day as well. We support you with a home office setup and a utilities allowance to ensure you can work comfortably.
#Wellness Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.
#Leave We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.
#Social Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company-paid lunches. Friday drinks and nibbles every fortnight, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations, and more.
#Learning Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring, or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.
Here's what you can expect in this role:
* Be curious and enthusiastic about trying new things, challenge the status quo, but with a pragmatic approach.
* Be an agent of change, capable, and excited to embrace new solutions and technology to transform yourself, your team, and Trade Me.
* Collaborate with product managers, development teams, and other stakeholders to deliver awesome reliable products that deliver great customer experiences.
* Be the primary technical contact on projects, from requirements gathering through to design and implementation.
* Demonstrate knowledge of security considerations of cloud computing: including data breaches, broken authentication, hacking, account compromising, malicious insiders, third parties, advanced persistent threats, data loss, and DoS attacks; with a particular focus on PCI compatibility.
* Perform a wide range of operational activities: measuring & monitoring systems, planning capacity, responding to incidents, ensuring the root causes of outages are addressed, understanding what tends to go wrong, and preventing it in the future.
* Proactively identify & recommend improvements to address systemic pain points and technical debts.
* Maintain an effective knowledge base and runbooks to bring faster resolution to production issues.
* Evaluate new technologies and tools and provide data-driven recommendations.
* Participate in the strategy and direction for our technology and processes.
* Maintain compliance with, and promotion of, Trade Me's code of conduct, ethics, and standards.
So far so good? What we're looking for from you is:
* A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field of study is preferred.
* 3+ years experience in managing public cloud web platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) preferably in AWS.
* Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker etc.).
* Networking Skills: VPCs, Security Groups, DNS, DHCP, IP, Firewall, Switching, Routing, Load-Balancing, etc.
* Experience with an Agile way of working.
* Experience with "infrastructure as code" and automation, using tools like Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, etc.
* Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an advantage.
* Experience with PHP is an advantage.
* PCI compliance experience is an advantage.
* Problem-solving - An eye for detail; willing to work through the little things to make our cloud systems faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.
* Communication - collaborates and communicates well with others; a good team player with a positive attitude and a willingness to collaborate.
* Proactivity - Highly proactive with a keen focus on improving uptime and availability of our mission-critical systems.
* Quality - A focus on delivering quality but the clear ability to balance that against the speed of execution or current constraints.
We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the “Why”.
Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.
Apply online for this role or contact Wytske Garty for more information.
Trade Me connects Kiwi to create the life they want. Join us to shape the experience of thousands of Kiwi and grow your career from day one!
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