Platform Engineer

5 days ago

London Area, United Kingdom Ophelos, part of Intrum Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

The Role - Platform Engineer

As a Platform Engineer at Ophelos, you'll craft and maintain the technology backbone that drives our mission to revolutionise debt management. Your expertise in development and operations (DevOps) will be key in building a platform that empowers financial health for consumers and businesses, aligning with our vision of a financially educated and equal world.

  • 40% Collaborating with the tech team to streamline deployment process and improving our developer experience
  • 30% Developing and enhancing our DevOps practices, ensuring our platform's reliability and scalability
  • 30% Proactive systems monitoring, issue resolution and continuous improvement initiatives to optimise the platform's security and performance
  • Success will be measured by reduced deployment times, systems stability (observing uptime and error rates), and positive feedback from the teams

Our tech stack:

Our infrastructure is primarily on containerised services, using AWS EKS, RDS, ElastiCache, and Kinesis serving up a Ruby on Rails application and orchestration our AI and data pipelines on Databricks

  • Build
    a sustainable platform with a focus on security and scalability
  • Own
    infrastructure and security projects, ensuring our platform is running smoothly, creating highly available and highly resilient systems
  • Lead
    our Security, Infrastructure and Performance initiatives
  • Mentor
    less experienced members of the team as we grow

About You

We believe that no one is the finished article, however, some experience in the following is important for this role:

Must haves

  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerisation (Docker)
  • Good understanding of GitOps practices
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Proficiency in implementing deployment pipelines (CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Argo)
  • Familiarity with AWS-based infrastructure
  • Good understanding of networking/dns concepts (OSI layers)
  • Experience with security operations and best practices (vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring)

Nice to haves

  • Good understanding of a programming language (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Go)
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Datadog)
  • Experience deploying, monitoring, and supporting cloud infrastructure for Ruby on Rails applications
  • Experience with Cloudflare
  • Experience setting SLOs, SLAs & SLIs

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