Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer - Tempcover

Hybrid - 2 Days per week in the Fleet office

RVU Group

At RVU we combine the close-knit and agile environment of a startup, with the know- how, technology and backing of a well-established company.

Our mission is to empower people to make confident decisions. With our unique set of brands, including Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Money.co.uk and Mojo, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world class online experience for them. 

Tempcover

For over 15 years, Tempcover has been at the forefront of the fast-growing world of short term insurance. From originators to innovators, weʼve evolved our business and our industry with pioneering ideas that remove the frustration of traditional insurance and put drivers in control of their insurance. Our mission is to make insurance flexible, quick, and easy for drivers and so far, weʼve sold over three million policies that have helped drivers get where they need to go, but weʼre not finished there. Weʼre growing our team and evolving our technology to help us continue in that mission.

The role

Tempcover is currently undertaking an overhaul of its systems to modernise and help us power the next generation of our technology. We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who can bring a depth of experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with a high level of ownership, empowerment and impact. 

Each Engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal. The platform engineering team enables our engineers to quickly build and run safe, secure and cost effective systems in our public cloud. 

What you’ll be doing:

• As a Staff Platform Engineer you'll be working as part of an agile team that provides services and tools to our internal engineering teams 
• Suggest and drive change across the engineering team and both challenge and improve existing practices and systems
• Mentor and coach other engineers; helping them grow whilst fostering a strong engineering culture
• You'll be introducing new technologies and approaches, and play a key role in the technical direction that platform engineering at Tempcover should take, while providing support and maintenance of existing platforms
• Helping drive and shape a greenfield project to rebuild our cloud infrastructure - moving from Azure to AWS

What we look for in you

Ideally your technical background will include:

• Automation using an IaC approach
• CI/CD
• Dev Ops and continuous improvement
• Experience in developed or architected secure environments, pipelines software
• API Gateways, DNS and load-balancing for a micro service architecture (preferably using CloudFlare)
• Operating high load consumer-facing websites
• Site reliability engineering
• IaaS and PaaS platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud provider design principles, like AWS and Azureʼs Well- Architected frameworks
• Experience using scripting, and ideally programming with languages such as Go and C#

We are looking for someone who can also demonstrate:

• Using data to drive decision making
• Demonstrable experience of taking the lead in solving business problems
• Industry experience in implementing platform engineering approaches, and offering services to internal customers
• Willingness to learn and passion to keep yourself at the forefront of technology delivery
• Experience being part of a cross functional agile team, working together to solve problems and deliver outcomes
• Experience in leading a team of engineers, mentoring them and helping them grow in their careers

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 4 weeks per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300  “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover,  dental plans  and employee assistance programme
• Employee discounts programme
• A healthy learning and training budget 
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

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