Platform Engineer - Featurespace

Visa; Hartford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology company in the UK is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to design and implement innovative cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS and a strong knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code practices. This hybrid position offers a dynamic work environment focused on continuous improvement and collaborative problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience with deploying architectures using AWS.
• Experience with cloud design practices.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features for cloud solutions.
• Evaluate and improve technology and processes.
• Lead technical initiatives and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Deploying complex architectures using AWS services

Cloud design practices

Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

Automation/Configuration management tools

Setting up CI/CD pipelines

Developing in Python

Software Development Life Cycle

Building and deploying containers

Agile/Scrum methodology

Troubleshooting complex issues

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

In your role as a Platform Engineer you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by:

• Designing and implementing new features and enhancements for continuous improvement of our cloud hosted solutions
• Design and implement a scalable, highly available and secure platform
• Building software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Continually be evaluating and improving our technology and processes to increase quality, decrease costs and improve time-to-market
• Architectural improvements on existing platform and development of our cloud hosted solutions
• Support the rapid delivery of prototypes and the creation of scalable products
• Developing and documenting internal processes

Role Responsibilities: As a company we hire people with a willingness to adapt to a variable role, so along with the key responsibilities below, we ask for ownership of any other duties as required.

Technical

• Expert understanding of relevant technologies and ability to write optimized, scalable code.
• Solves complex problems and helps others in debugging and resolving issues.
• Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team.
• Improves areas of the system they work on, leaves things better than they found them.

Impact

• Leads significant portions of projects and makes impactful contributions.
• Capable of driving technical initiatives and leading resolution of critical bugs.
• Identifies solutions to larger problems with assistance from peers.
• Takes part in the process of interviewing, recruitment, and onboarding within their team.

Behaviour

• Takes full ownership of projects and ensures success.
• Regularly mentors other engineers, particularly those less experienced than themselves.
• Able to onboard new engineers into their team.
• Proactively seeks and gives timely, actionable feedback in their team.
• Helps grow the engineering function by participating in the hiring process, giving effective feedback in scorecards and during debriefs.
• Promotes good practises and helps other engineers deepen their knowledge.
• Confidence in judgement and design making, pulls in support from around the company where needed.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Must have

• Proven hands-on experience with deploying complex architectures using AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, and S3
• Good understanding/experience of cloud design practices around load balancing, autoscaling, high availability, performance and disaster recovery
• Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Automation/Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef & Puppet
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Developing in high level programming languages (preferably Python)
• Experience of the Software Development Life Cycle (source control, testing, code review, etc)
• Building and deploying containers
• Basic networking knowledge and debugging skills
• Experience of Agile/Scrum methodology
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug complex issues
• Attention to detail, excellence and quality.
• A focus on personal achievement and responsibility.
• Passion to learn new skills and technologies.
• Ability to share knowledge
• Enthusiasm and an open mindset.
• Can-do attitude.
• A passion to work for one of the fastest growing fraud prevention technologies in the world.

Great to have

• Kubernetes deployment and management
• Cloud-native deployment technologies such as Helm
• Experience with compliance standards (e.g. PCI-DSS, SOC2 or ISO27001:2103)

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Featurespace, we strive to be the world's best software company at protecting our clients and their customers from fraud attacks. We do that with personality, heart and professionalism, cultivating an innovative, fun and positive team atmosphere where everybody can contribute to solving our clients' problems in new, innovative ways. We are always seeking to be the best at what we do and make our customers smile.