Senior Platform Engineer — Scale Cloud Infra & Automation

Lyst; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion technology company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Platform squad. The role involves scaling the infrastructure handling millions of requests, enhancing deployment experiences, and ensuring system reliability. Key responsibilities include orchestrating Terraform and Docker for application deployments, managing infrastructure, and driving engineering ownership. Ideal candidates should have expertise in AWS, Terraform, Python, and monitoring solutions.

Benefits

29 holidays per year

Training allowance of £1,000

Private healthcare

Clothing benefit up to £1,000

Pension scheme with 5% employee contribution

Cycle-to-work scheme

Interest-free season ticket loan

Frequent company-wide social events

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services like EKS, EC2, ECS, RDS, and ElastiCache.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, and DynamoDB.
• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure management.
• Proficient in Docker for containerization and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrating deployment with Terraform, Docker, and GitHub.
• Managing systems programmatically and building enabling tooling.
• Scaling infrastructure to handle up to a billion requests a month.
• Monitoring application performance and delivering insights.
• Driving engineering teams to own their infrastructure.

Skills

Familiarity with AWS

Data stores management and optimization

Infrastructure as code with Terraform

Python scripting

Container orchestration with Docker

Logging and monitoring expertise

DevOps toolchain knowledge

Competency in Git

High availability service management

Agile environment experience

Job description

A leading fashion technology company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Platform squad. The role involves scaling the infrastructure handling millions of requests, enhancing deployment experiences, and ensuring system reliability. Key responsibilities include orchestrating Terraform and Docker for application deployments, managing infrastructure, and driving engineering ownership. Ideal candidates should have expertise in AWS, Terraform, Python, and monitoring solutions.