This is a combined Feature/Platform Engineering role. The successful applicant will work within

a high-performing engineering team, focused on the technical excellence within core business

components:

* Improve the efficiency of cross-functional Feature Teams at all stages of the Software

Development Lifecycle.

* Support the ongoing decomposition and re-architecture our payment gateway to further

utilize managed, cloud-native solutions.

* Ensure the Platform - and all-consuming Features - are secure and compliant with all relevant

standards (including PCI DSS Level 1).

* Ensure the Platform - and all-consuming Features - are performant and cost effective.

Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer – Key Responsibilities:

- To design, build, maintain, and improve the functions of our internal Platform as required by

its customers.

- To actively engage with all Scrum ceremonies to ensure that every Sprint delivers the

expected business value.

- To resolve operational issues raised by our customers by identifying root cause and

implementing appropriate solutions in a timely and communicative manner.

- To ensure the Team maintains a high standard of code quality by maintaining an awareness of

all relevant best practises and participating constructively in code reviews.

- To provide appropriate guidance, support, and technical leadership to other Team Members.

- To execute all reasonable tasks assigned by the Development Manager or Technical Leads.

- You may be required to undertake any other reasonable tasks, which is broadly consistent

with those in this document as determined by your line manager.

Senior Platform (DevOps) Engineer – You:

- AWS Services - Including (amongst others): VPC; EC2; ELB; ECS; Lambda; API Gateway;

CloudWatch; RDS; DynamoDB; KMS; IAM.

- Designing synchronous and event-driven architectures that are highly-availability, fault-

tolerant, and performant.

- Cloud Native Containerisation – Experience running production services using cloud-based

container orchestration technologies.

- Networking and communication – Working knowledge of the OSI model and an ability to

securely design and debug networks in the cloud.

- CI/CD Tools (ideally GitLab).

- IaC Tools (ideally Terraform).

- Shell Scripting (ideally Bash).

- Version Control Software (ideally Git).

- The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

- Security.

- Data protection.

Desired Experience:

- Service Mesh implementation and operation.

- Distributed Tracing implementation and operation.

- Prior experience with monitoring and observability products (ideally DataDog).

- Familiarity with API design: and an understanding of REST, gRPC, and GraphQL.

- Ability to develop modern, secure, and testable software using High Level Languages (ideally

Python).

- Ability to write test code at all levels of the testing pyramid.

- Experience in financial services, ideally payments (gateways, acquiring and processing)