Summary
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A global payments technology organization is hiring a site reliability engineer for its distributed platform engineering team. The role combines building new platform components, operational support, on-call incident management, continuous maintenance and compliance-related work while using modern cloud and infrastructure automation technologies.
Highlights
Join a globally distributed platform engineering team, work on large-scale payment infrastructure, balance strategic projects with operational excellence, and gain exposure to reliability, compliance and incident management.
Description
Strategic Staffing Solutions International client - UK based company which processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees is hiring
The Platform Engineering team is a unified, globally distributed team which is located in London, Riga, and Lisbon.
They work with all other engineering teams to empower them to build, release, run, and scale their products.
They operate with a strong focus on both strategic project delivery and operational excellence.
Work is a balance of:
Project Delivery: Building new platform components, from initial design to deployment.
Operational Support: Ensuring the health and stability of our systems through on-call rotations and incident management.
Business as Usual (BAU): Continuous maintenance, improvements, and support for audits and compliance.
Tech stack and tools:
Python, Ruby, Golang;Terraform;AtlantisAWS, GCP;Kubernetes, GKE;Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD;Grafana, Prometheus;Datadog
What excites you:
We use a wide range of technologies, and will never expect you to have experience with all of them.
We do hope that you are enthusiastic about the infrastructure space and the impact your work can have on others.
To enjoy this work you’ll be excited by:
Building and maintaining automation of new and existing infrastructure;Appreciate and believe in building easy-to-understand and maintain tools to solve problems;Automating operational tasks to eliminate toil using your software development skills and experience;Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats;Working closely with software engineers and data scientists;Being involved in the technical design of architecture and making technical decisions;Cloud-first engineering;Ongoing opportunities to further develop your skills;Care about working with people who share the same values as you and who will continually push you to grow.
What excites us:
Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Golang etc.;Experience with IaC tooling, such as Terraform;Previous experience with Terraform automation toolings such as Terragrunt or Atlantis will be considered an advantage;Experience with cloud computing providers such as AWS or GCP;Experience with containerized applications;Previous experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and GKE will be considered an advantage;Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Github, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.;Experience working with monitoring tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, etc.;Experience with relational databases and other datastores, especially around high availability and performance optimisation;Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles;Fluency in English;Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
