Infrastructure Engineer

Autocab; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading taxi and private hire software provider is searching for an Infrastructure Engineer to help enhance their Azure-based infrastructure. You will work within a collaborative team to drive best practices and deliver secure solutions. The ideal candidate should have extensive Azure experience, solid networking skills, and a willingness to adapt. Benefits include a hybrid working model, 25 days holiday, and a company pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Medical insurance with Vitality

Qualifications

• 3 years or more commercial Azure IaaS and PaaS experience required.
• Experience administering Azure Services such as AAD and App Service.
• Proficiency in scripting in Bash or Python.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team to develop and improve Azure-based infrastructure.
• Drive best practices across the infrastructure estate.
• Understand and remediate any vulnerabilities exposed by threat intelligence tools.

Skills

Azure IaaS and PaaS experience

Strong network skills

Docker container technology

Security engineering

SRE skills including monitoring

Education

Computer Science or related degree

Tools

Azure Services

Bitbucket / Git

Jenkins

Job description

Are you interested in joining a business that is redefining an industry and launching products that help cement the place of our private hire/taxi operator customers in a global marketplace?

ABOUT US

We are Autocab, a leading taxi & private hire booking and dispatch software provider, offering innovative solutions to help businesses go further.

We do this by creating award-winning software and working with our customers and employees to produce solutions that work.

We're a passionate bunch who challenge the ordinary and believe in working collaboratively to develop our expertise.

Go Further. It's more than just our motto; it is ingrained into the way we work. It is what we strive for as a business and what we expect for our employees and customers.

ABOUT THE ROLE

RESPONSIBILITIES

As an Autocab Infrastructure Engineer, you'll be working with a team of highly skilled and motivated people, who constantly develop and improve our Azure based infrastructure.

You will be reporting into the Infrastructure Team Leader and be part of a team to help us drive best practice across the estate.

You will become an integral part of the management of our extensive infrastructure estate comprising of VMs, Containers, App Services, Storage Accounts, Resource Groups and more. You will be involved in our ongoing projects to deliver SRE monitoring and alerting as well as improving our Dev Ops capabilities.

You'll be able to use your Azure expertise to recommend, design and then deliver the best Azure solutions to meet the product requirements. We aim to be scalable, adaptable, and observable as we continue to evolve. We also aim to be highly secure and you will be part of the never ending endeavours to understand and remediate any vulnerabilities that our threat intelligence tools expose to stay ahead of the bad guys.

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL
• 3 years or more commercial Azure IaaS and PaaS experience
• Strong network skills
• Experience administering Azure Services: AAD, App Service, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks.
• Experience with both Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Functional knowledge of network administration.
• Docker container technology
• Experience with continuity of Operations/Disaster Recovery architecture and planning.
• Experience with .NET application deployment on Azure.
• Understanding of Application Insights and monitoring of applications.
• Proficiency in scripting in Bash or Python
• Dev Ops CI/CD pipelining skills
• Security engineering and operations
• SRE skills including monitoring and alerting

DESIREABLE
• Computer Science or related degree
• Understanding of SQL and KQL
• Bitbucket / Git
• Jenkins
• Datadog
• Rapid7, Wiz, SNYK, Netsparker
• AWS

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

CORE WORKING HOURS
• 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
• Hybrid working model - our collab days are Wednesdays, Thursdays and alternate Tuesdays

BENEFITS

From day one:
• 25 days' holiday (plus bank holidays) per annum
• Company pension scheme with Royal London
• Life Assurance - 24/7 life cover, 2x your basic salary
• Bonusly reward and recognition platform
• Monthly Uber Eats vouchers
• Free breakfast on office days
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Help@Hand which provides virtual GP, physio and mental health support services
• Office social area, which includes pool, foosball, and table tennis tables

After passing probation:
• Medical insurance with Vitality
• Subsidised travel scheme to commute into the office
• L&D Scheme to offer further qualifications, courses and training
• Work from Anywhere scheme: Up to 4 weeks available per annum to work from anywhere in the world
• Enhanced leave policies including family leave and sickness leave

ABOUT OUR VALUES

We have five core values which we live and breathe by. These go way beyond a list;
they're
baked into the fabric of our interactions and are used to drive growth across our business.

You will need to:
• Be customer centric; putting customers first, valuing their opinions and listening to their feedback.
• Adopt a collaborative approach to working; have strong team working and listening skills to help yourself, your team, and Autocab grow.
• Have a flexible approach to your work; have an adaptable mind set,
be a
proactive problem solver and think outside the box.
• Have a passionate and personable nature; be creative and confident in your work. Comfortable with building rapport with customers and the team.
• Have a straight up style of communication by being transparent, honest and clear in everything you do.

If you are looking for a new challenge and keen to make a difference, come and join the Autocab team.