Senior Platform Engineer
9fin
31 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 56KJob location
Remote
Tech stack
API
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Identity and Access Management
Python
Open Source Technology
Prometheus
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Grafana
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
GIT
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Route53
Functional Programming
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Serverless Computing
Docker
Pagerduty
Go
Programming Languages
Job description
We are looking for a highly-motivated and driven platform engineer, with experience in enabling a DevOps culture within tech teams. In this role, your primary responsibility will be to provide a world-class developer experience to other engineers. You will have the autonomy to build solutions for the fascinating problems that we have to solve, allowing our customers (the software engineers) to build products quickly, securely, and to a high standard of quality.
Every day is different, but here's an example of the kind of things you'll work on:
- Designing and implementing high quality infrastructure as code templates/modules, and empowering software engineers to use them for their projects.
- Implementing AWS multi-account core infrastructure, and ensuring security best practices are being used across the cloud estate.
- Authoring CI/CD templates and optimisations to ensure that engineers can release as early and often as possible.
- Designing and implementing a developer portal (eg. Backstage), to provide a service catalogue to the engineering team, and also author many other useful DevOps plugins.
- Contributing to observability best practices and providing key SLI/SLO metric reporting, so that the engineering team can balance velocity and reliability.
- Develop inner/open source projects to help provide a world-class developer experience to the engineering team.
Requirements
- Good working knowledge of AWS services including ECS, EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53, CloudFront, S3, RDS
- Good understanding of monitoring and logging solutions, e.g. Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, ELK etc.
- Basic SRE knowledge, and experience in alerting and incident management platforms (eg. Opsgenie, Pagerduty)
- Proven ability to provide and support strong and scalable CI/CD pipelines
- Linux, Git, Docker and good scripting skills in e.g. Python, bash, Go. You should be proficient in at least one modern programming language.
- Good experience in defining Infrastructure as Code, using Terraform or Serverless etc.
- Knowledgeable and comfortable with Agile development practices
- Great appetite for learning and self-improvement
- A real passion for developer experience, as well as an understanding and enthusiasm for Platform Engineering as a discipline
- Experience with public APIs would be a bonus
- Previous experience in fintech is a bonus
Benefits & conditions
- Salary: competitive + equity options
- Holidays: 25 days per year (plus local public holidays)
- Learning & development budget: We're focused on your career progression and personal development!
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme
- Team socials and company events
- Personal tech budget for laptops and other kit
- Generous, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Hybrid working environment, with flexibility to work from home or in the office
About the company
About 9fin
The world's largest asset class, debt, operates with the worst data.
Technology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it's in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered.
Our mission is to change this.
9fin's proprietary technology delivers fast and comprehensive financial, credit, legal & ESG analysis. Our clients are able to make faster, more informed decisions, win more business and most importantly, save time.
Our fast growing list of clients include 9 of the top 10 Investment Banks, leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Law Firms.