CloudPay is a company that has been growing at 30% for five years straight; we find ourselves at an inflexion point in our technology stacks and IT organisational structure. CloudPays engineering teams build very sophisticated software using open-source technologies with the majority being in Java. We operate out of AWS. Our systems engineers play a crucial role in the design, building and maintenance of all our software and services.
If you're a self-starter who likes a challenge and is looking for an exciting new Platform Engineer role where you will have a real influence and impact on Cloud Infrastructure design, this is the role for you. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly-skilled, high-functioning team, forming an essential part of a rapidly expanding global business within the technology and financial services space.
**Daily Duties and Main Responsibilities will include**:
- Provision and maintain secure cloud infrastructure
- Partner with scrum teams to deliver software releases
- Build and manage secure automated systems
- Maintain complete and comprehensive documentation
- Manage logging, monitoring and alerting systems
- Support incidents as they occur and work with teams on preventing future incidents
- Work closely with engineers across all teams in different parts of the world
**Attributes and Experience Required**:
- 3+ years in a similar role
- Good documentation and communications skills
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience
- Experience working with agile teams
- Keen sense of ownership and drive, delivering on what you and your team have agreed on
- A good understanding of the following concepts and standard practices:
- GitOps and ITIL
- IT security; GDPR, encryption at-rest/in-transit, patching, least-privilege
- Networking; VPNs, Transit Gateways, routing, DNS, firewalls
- Experience working with complex and, sometimes, tightly coupled systems
- Strong experience with the following technology:
- Terraform and AWS
- Debian
- BASH
- Rundeck
- Containerisation and microservice architecture
Desirable Experience:
- JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
- Bamboo, Jenkins
- Foreman
- Apache, Nginx, Tomcat