Requirements

• Proven track record of owning and operating web platforms in production at scale.
• Strong experience with AWS in a production environment.
• Experience defining meaningful metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms, with a strong intuition for actionable vs noisy signals.
• Experience working with platform-level security controls and observability, including identifying and responding to abnormal or unsafe system behaviour.
• Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems that support safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments.
• Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment and improving systems based on what you learn.
• Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
• Proficient with at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.
• Enjoy solving complex, cross-cutting problems in collaboration with engineers across the organisation.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and priorities.
• Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge within the team and the wider engineering organisation.

What you'll be doing

• Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure focusing on reliability, scalability, and ease of use for product teams.
• Design and build opinionated, self-service tooling to enable engineers to build, deploy, and operate services correctly.
• Continuously reduce manual work by automating workflows and standardising infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and platform abstractions.
• Define and implement platform-level monitoring and alerting standards that provide meaningful signals without overwhelming teams.
• Enable product teams to use shared metrics and signals to improve reliability of their services across environments.
• Own and evolve continuous delivery and release capabilities to reduce time to production while maintaining reliability and safety.
• Stay current with best practices in application hosting, continuous delivery, and developer experience and apply them pragmatically.
• Upskill and mentor other engineers in the team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• BUPA health insurance.
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA.
• OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year.
• Hybrid working.
• Pension scheme.
• Motorway car leasing scheme to lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount.
• Enhanced parental leave with 26 weeks full maternity pay and 4 weeks full paternity pay.
• Workplace nursery scheme.
• Regular social events.
• Cycle to work scheme.