Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Noon-The Social Learning Platform; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, where you'll own and enhance cloud infrastructure used by thousands of students daily. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on education while working in a hybrid environment with a talented team in central London. You'll be responsible for building resilient systems, automating processes, and ensuring high availability. With a competitive salary and a range of benefits, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization focused on transforming learning experiences. If you're passionate about technology and education, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Relocation including visa sponsorship

Performance-based bonus

25 days annual leave

5% contribution to Pension Scheme

Private Medical Scheme including Family cover

Income Protection and Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes is essential for this role.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and monitoring tools is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build resilient multi-tenant infrastructure across HTTP and websocket servers.
• Automate platform provisioning and monitor infrastructure for high availability.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)

Critical thinking

Tools

Github Actions

Ansible

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

About Noon

Noon's mission is to radically change the way people learn, with a primary focus on the Middle East, where the company has its roots and where the need and urgency to improve education are highest.

We have taught over 12 million students successfully with our remote learning products. Our next big challenge is to build a network of schools, supported by top teachers and driven by technology and innovation, to positively impact even more lives.

Why work at Noon?

• The opportunity to have a real impact on millions of students.
• A strong leadership and engineering team to learn from.
• A solid runway: we recently closed our Series B and have substantial recurring revenue.

About the role

At Noon, we are developing a product used by thousands of students every day. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a critical role in owning our Cloud infrastructure. Join our distributed, high-performing team in our central London office (hybrid, 2 days per week), where the core of our tech team is located.

Responsibilities

• Build resilient multi-tenant infrastructure across HTTP and websocket servers.
• Monitoring infrastructure to ensure high availability.
• Automate day to day platform provisioning, monitoring and deployment of data pipelines and services.
• Debug production issues and participate in incident management. Lead the incidents to successful and permanent resolution.
• Bring in best practices and focus on infra cost optimisation and security.
• Be a team player.

Ideally, you will have

• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (AWS) and K8s (EKS).
• Critical thinking on when to build it yourself vs using a third party.
• You know your way around CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Github Actions) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with observability and maintainability of large scale distributed systems.
• Monitoring skills (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog etc).
• Experience during production incidents and post-mortems.

Bonus, if you have

• Understanding about managing SQL and NoSQL database systems.
• Familiarity with Message Brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible).

The interview process

Technical -> System Design -> Behavioural.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive base salary, we offer:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Relocation to the UK including visa sponsorship
• Performance-based bonus
• 25 days annual leave and Christmas office closure days on top
• 5% contribution to your Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Scheme including Family cover
• Income Protection and Life Assurance to help you to protect your future

About Diversity & Inclusion

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences. If you’re passionate about making a real positive impact through education, even if you don’t meet all the requirements above, we encourage you to apply.

At Noon, we respect and value differences. We know that when people from different backgrounds and with different points of view work together, we create the most value – for our clients, our people, and society. We’re so lucky to live in a society where differences are celebrated, so we’d expect nothing less from our teams. That means whatever your race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender, this is a place to feel at home, express yourself freely, and make your mark. Noon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, or sexual orientation. We aim to be truly representative of the world and for each and every employee to feel respected.