Lead Platform Engineer
Department: Tech
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Brighton
Reporting To: Platform Manager
Compensation: £90,000 - £110,000 / year
Description
* Who we’re looking for: An experienced Cloud Platform Engineer with a demonstrable passion for automation and collaboration, as well as a deep understanding of AWS and EKS.
* The challenge: To ensure our platform can scale rapidly and reliably, working with Engineers to simplify their experience and supporting with the transformation of a new product area.
* Where you’ll work: This role can be based in our Hove or London office, our HQ is in Hove so regular attendance here will be required.
Day to day this role will
* Manage and continuously optimize Tillo's cloud infrastructure to improve performance, scalability, security and cost-efficiency.
* Operate Container Orchestration Solutions (Kubernetes / EKS).
* Build and manage CI/CD pipelines.
* Design, build and manage Infrastructure as Code.
* Work in an agile way following DevOps principles.
* Manage disaster recovery, monitoring and alerting.
* Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Platform team members.
* Mentor Platform and Software engineers on best practices.
We’re looking for strong experience with
* AWS as a Cloud Provider, particularly managing EKS workload.
* Writing Infrastructure as Code (ideally in Pulumi).
* Linux and bash.
* Deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes.
* Working in the PHP and/or Python ecosystems.
* Communicating the benefits of DevOps practices such as Agile ways of working, theory of constraints, and SLO-based monitoring.
* Collaboration and working with development teams to improve their ways of working, especially regarding monitoring, alerting, CI, and CD.
* Communicating and influencing.
* Git / source control.
* Working in a fast-scaling business, and embracing the changes and challenges this brings.
It’s not essential, but we’d love to hear about it if you have experience with
* Go and Typescript development best practices.
* Provisioning and administrating Windows Servers and VMs.
* Provisioning and managing SQL Server and Azure SQL databases.
* Managing Windows Active Directory.
Benefits
We offer all our employees trust and empower our team to work with flexibility and autonomy. We’re a close-knit team and love working collaboratively, with our hybrid model, our team can come together at our fantastic office in Hove, but also focus in their own space. The Tillo team are a motivated bunch and we all work hard to push Tillo forwards, always innovating. We completely understand the importance of work/life balance and offer a supportive and collaborative working environment with the following benefits:
* Enhanced annual leave of 26 days per annum.
* Private Medical care through Vitality.
* Designated share options.
* Access to Tillo’s Storefront with discounts & gift card vouchers.
* Hybrid Working.
* Top spec equipment including laptop, mouse, keyboard, monitor.
* Anniversary gifts.
* Monthly breakfasts, drinks, snacks and events.
* Individual Learning & Development budget.
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