Senior Cloud Engineer

Team Railsr; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Cloud Engineer, where you will shape and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS. This role offers the chance to work with talented engineers in a fast-paced environment, contributing to innovative financial products that enhance customer experiences. Collaborate with a diverse team, utilize cutting-edge technologies like Terraform and the ELK stack, and help drive the next phase of growth in an exciting FinTech landscape. Make a meaningful impact in a dynamic and inclusive workplace that values ambition, trust, and curiosity.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Generous benefits

Equity potential

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• Proven track record running and scaling services on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS.
• Collaborate with cross-functional squads to develop cloud infrastructure.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

ELK stack

Grafana

Prometheus

CI/CD pipelines

Bash

PowerShell

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Tools

AWS DynamoDB

AWS RDS

Datomic

AWS SNS/SQS

PagerDuty

Job description

Senior Cloud Engineer

About Railsr

Railsr is a leading embedded finance experience platform that enables any business to prototype, build, and scale financial products. Our vision is to make finance an amazing experience for consumers and companies globally, working alongside brands and fintechs to power innovation. This is an exciting space, and Railsr has one of the first digitally-native products in the FinTech platform space.

Following a period of rapid growth, followed by consolidation, Railsr is returning to growth once more through an acquisition. This is a hugely exciting time for Railsr and will make us one of the largest players in the space - it is an amazing opportunity to join us to help navigate through this next phase!

The Opportunity

As Railsr grows, we are expanding our Cloud Engineering team. You will have the chance to shape and optimize our cloud infrastructure, ensuring its scalability, security, and efficiency. You will work alongside a squad of Cloud and Security engineers, being key for the Engineering organisation and having the chance to collaborate and learn from the rest of the squads.

The Role and your responsibilities

In this role, the key is ownership:

1. Design and Implement Cloud Infrastructure: Collaborate with cross-functional squads to design, develop, and deploy scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS using Terraform.
2. Contribute with fresh ideas and constructive feedback to the platform's development and our engineering community.
3. Solve problems - you unblock yourself and other team members when they hit a roadblock.

Our expectations

• You have a proven track record running and scaling services on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and Terraform.
• Experience with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for log management, analysis, and monitoring.
• Experience in Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring, metrics collection, and visualisation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab pipelines is a plus) and scripting languages (Bash or PowerShell).
• Experience running Kubernetes clusters is a plus.
• Experience running Apache Kafka clusters is a plus.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture best practices, security principles, and scalability considerations.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, including VPN, DNS, load balancing, and routing.

Our stack

• Infrastructure - AWS IaC with Terraform.
• Persistence - AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS, Datomic.
• Data distribution - AWS SNS/SQS, Apache Kafka.
• Monitoring & Alerting - ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty.

What we can offer you:

• Purpose - Help make amazing embedded finance experiences accessible to everyone and transform global financial services.
• Career - Build your career in an innovative, adventurous and inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to make a difference and develop their skills.
• Reward - Competitive remuneration package with generous benefits and the potential to be rewarded with equity.
• People - Work with talented, passionate and supportive people from all over the world in a flexible, hybrid environment with trust and mutual respect at its heart.

Our Values

The environment at Railsr is fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic, underpinned by a clear set of values that drive a healthy and successful culture.

• Ambition - for our company, colleagues and ourselves and the freedom and expectation to own it.
• Trust - which we give freely and expect in return.
• Curiosity - with our minds open to fresh thinking in the constant pursuit of improvement.
• Customer Obsession - ensuring that everything we do is with the customer in mind, we succeed when they succeed.

If you are eager to join a fast-paced, collaborative and inclusive company and contribute to shaping its future, this is the role for you to make a difference.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

Our global team is amazing, with over 150 colleagues spread across multiple countries and more than 30 languages spoken, - they bring great ideas, drive new plans and help make Railsr a fantastic place to work, We're proud of how well our diverse mix of people collaborate and are fully committed to continuing to make diversity, equity and inclusion part of everything we do. Railsr is an equal opportunities employer and we actively encourage all applications, particularly those from under-represented groups.

Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure Railsr's recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us on [e-mail] to discuss specific requirements.