Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer

Skills:
Terraform, SQL, AWS, Bash, SDLC, GIT Lab,

This is a combined Feature/Platform Engineering role. The successful applicant will work within

a high-performing engineering team, focused on the technical excellence within core business

Components

• Improve the efficiency of cross-functional Feature Teams at all stages of the Software
  
  

Development Lifecycle.

• Support the ongoing decomposition and re-architecture our payment gateway to further
  
  

utilize managed, cloud-native solutions.

• Ensure the Platform - and all-consuming Features - are secure and compliant with all relevant
  
  

standards (including PCI DSS Level 1).

• Ensure the Platform - and all-consuming Features - are performant and cost effective.
  
  

Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer Key Responsibilities

• To design, build, maintain, and improve the functions of our internal Platform as required by
  
  

its customers.

• To actively engage with all Scrum ceremonies to ensure that every Sprint delivers the
  
  

expected business value.

• To resolve operational issues raised by our customers by identifying root cause and
  
  

implementing appropriate solutions in a timely and communicative manner.

• To ensure the Team maintains a high standard of code quality by maintaining an awareness of
  
  

all relevant best practises and participating constructively in code reviews.

• To provide appropriate guidance, support, and technical leadership to other Team Members.
• To execute all reasonable tasks assigned by the Development Manager or Technical Leads.
• You may be required to undertake any other reasonable tasks, which is broadly consistent
  
  

with those in this document as determined by your line manager.

Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer You

• AWS Services - Including (amongst others): VPC; EC2; ELB; ECS; Lambda; API Gateway;
  
  

CloudWatch; RDS; DynamoDB; KMS; IAM.

- Designing synchronous and event-driven architectures that are highly-availability, fault-

tolerant, and performant.

• Cloud Native Containerisation Experience running production services using cloud-based
  
  

container orchestration technologies.

• Networking and communication Working knowledge of the OSI model and an ability to
  
  

securely design and debug networks in the cloud.

• CI/CD Tools (ideally GitLab).
• IaC Tools (ideally Terraform).
• Shell Scripting (ideally Bash).
• Version Control Software (ideally Git).
• The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Security.
• Data protection.
  
  

Desired Experience

• Service Mesh implementation and operation.
• Distributed Tracing implementation and operation.
• Prior experience with monitoring and observability products (ideally DataDog).
• Familiarity with API design: and an understanding of REST, gRPC, and GraphQL.
• Ability to develop modern, secure, and testable software using High Level Languages (ideally
  
  

Python).

• Ability to write test code at all levels of the testing pyramid.
• Experience in financial services, ideally payments (gateways, acquiring and processing)