Senior Software Engineer- Continuous Delivery (CD) Platform

Requirements

• Hands-on Java Software Engineer - you will be building the platform and applying best SDLC practices (development, testing, applications, monitoring).
• Strong understanding of Java and relevant application frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot).
• Experience of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP) both in utilising services and how cloud infrastructure works.
• Experience with containerisation technology and orchestration platforms e.g. Docker, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of architectural concepts such as microservices, service mesh.
• Experience in scaling, building and testing with automation; e.g. including tooling in pipelines instead of manual operational changes.
• Growth mindset and a desire to learn, teach, and improve skills.
• Previous ownership of mission-critical shared infrastructure.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with CI/CD systems, in particular Spinnaker.
• Experience in implementing SRE principles.
• Good knowledge of observability stacks and tooling (e.g. Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, Tracing).
• Good discipline and skill in producing written documentation and diagrams.
• Good knowledge of cloud networking and security.
• Experience working in a regulated business (e.g. PCI).
• Experience of capacity planning as well as performance and load testing.

What You'll Be Doing

• Evolving the Continuous Delivery platform offering; currently the focus is principally extending the OSS project of Spinnaker.
• Creating a scalable foundation for our CD platform, integrating with partner teams in Platform Engineering.
• Working closely with engineers across the company to help them as they shift towards the CD paradigm for deploying software.