Platform Engineer, Flatshare Ltd

Platform Engineer - Full Time Permanent Contract

Salary Range £55,000 - £70,000

SpareRoom at a glance:

Since SpareRooms launch in 2004, weve helped over 10 million people across the world find homes to share and great people to share them with. We believe living with the right people beats living alone, so our mission is a simple one to create happier flatshares.

Were a modern family business, owned only by our founders and directors. That means were able to put our users at the heart of everything we do and we love working with humble people who bring positive energy and like to get stuff done.

To learn more about life at SpareRoom or read our Recruitment Privacy Policy please visit our Jobs Page here.

About the role:

Its an exciting time to be joining our Platform team as weve just migrated the majority of our infrastructure from a datacenter to Google Cloud Platform.

Were looking for an experienced and passionate Platform Engineer to help us optimise the system, improve security, and develop solutions that utilise many of the benefits cloud engineering offers.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Security, reliability, and performance of all our platforms
• Develop standardised solutions for servers and networks
• Continue to automate as much of our process as possible
• Work with development teams to engineer system wide solutions
• Help to maintain the quality and standards of the engineering team
• Empower other teams with self service solutions
• Participate in an on-call rotation providing remote support

Relevant experience in a majority of these concepts:

• In-depth knowledge of linux operating systems, focusing on Debian and RHEL/Centos
• Cloud service providers such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS ( knowledge of other platforms such as Azure would also be beneficial )
• Infrastructure as Code best practises ( Terraform )
• Configuration Management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Packer)
• Containerization (Docker & Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration processes (Jenkins and GitHub Actions in particular)
• Scripting/programming languages (e.g. Python, Bash, Perl or Golang)
• Databases (primarily MySQL)
• Some experience of CDNs would also be beneficial (Particularly Fastly)
• Some experience with Microsoft operating systems
• Physical infrastructure exposure, e.g. physical & wireless networking, security

What we believe in, and wed like you to as well:

• The Platform teams main aim is to enable the business to achieve their goals with as little friction as possible. With that in mind, we are also here to minimise risk. This means we aim to develop processes and systems that are secure and audited as well as self-service and scalable.
• Simplicity is key. Clever is great but complexity is to be avoided wherever possible.
• Agile/Lean environment. We build spikes, we start small, and we iterate. We feel empowered to put our hand up when we need help or think weve gone down the wrong path.
• Active pairing in the teams to share & improve skills and improve quality.
• Striving for effective and efficient processes so we are always delivering value to our customers and ourselves.
• We take time to step back and think about solving problems to everyones benefit. We take care of each other.

What we offer:

• Flexible working
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Tech Scheme
• Season travel loans
• Matched pension contributions
• Sports/health & financial wellbeing membership contributions
• Optional Private Healthcare and Cash Plan
• Rental deposit loan scheme
• And, of course, a free SpareRoom upgrade

We have a legal responsibility to ensure all our employees have the right to live and work in the UK. Offers of employment are subject to verification of eligibility prior to starting work.

This job listing may be closed prior to the closing date if sufficient applications have been received.