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Senior Platform Engineer

Cardiff, United Kingdom
DevOps Engineer Site Reliability Engineer Platform Engineer
Actively hiring

Senior Platform Engineer

RVU
Cardiff, United Kingdom
DevOps Engineer Site Reliability Engineer Platform Engineer
RVU
Actively hiring

hackajob is partnering with RVU to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.

 
Hybird - 2 days per week in Cardiff office

Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple; take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.
 
We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover, and Money.co.uk) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services. RVU’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.
 
Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.
 
Our platform teams enable our customer facing teams  by providing tooling and solutions that help them to deliver change quickly, safely and securely - all whilst providing an excellent developer experience and operational excellence. We are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, scalable, and reliable solutions that enable  our internal engineering teams to be high performers.


What you will be responsible for

Excellence: Work alongside established & experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding & utilisation of modern technology
 
Collaboration: Work with fellow engineers to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the platform alongside your peers
 
Autonomy: Authority over technical decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
 
Data Driven: Utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security & reliability
 
Culture: Enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch ups, working groups and all hands
 
Experience: Enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge & expertise in a continuous learning environment.


As a member of the platform  engineering team you will be accountable for the following:
  • Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
  • Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
  • Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
  • Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
  • Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
  • Designing scalable and resilient systems
  • Presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation
 
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Confused.com you will be expected to:
  • Proactively identify opportunities for improvement in the team
  • Manage your time and communication  effectively between team and organisation level contributions
  • Take lead on delivery, guiding the team to successful outcomes

What we look for in you

  • Experience working in  agile teams of engineers, working together to solve problems, deliver outcomes, and building and operating highly available, scale and performant consumer-facing solutions
  • Experience  of building and designing cost optimised Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) from the ground up, following well architected principles
  • Solid understanding of platform and reliability engineering approaches (SRE), including observability, performance optimisation, capturing analytics  and security best practices
  • Experience implementing Service Level Objectives and using them to drive error budgets, risk management and alerting
  • Knowledge and experience with operating containers at scale within the Kubernetes ecosystem
  • Experience in building robust, fault tolerant systems and identifying areas for improvement all in the support of maintaining reliability standards
  • Knowledge of incident and problem management practices
  • Proficiency in the software development lifecycle, including testing, version control, branching strategies and deployments approaches using modern software technologies
  • Ability to debug Production code to identify root causes of failure that lead to improvement
  • Experience building and designing  APIs or CLIs  that solve internal problems or deliver self service solutions for engineers.
  • Committed to your own development and excited to make a direct, substantial impact within a company that provides you with full autonomy to release changes daily

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