Senior Platform Engineer

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We are notonthehighstreet.

We’re home to 5,000 phenomenal small creative businesses that we are proud to call our Partners. But, now more than ever, this community needs our support. So we’re doing all we can to shine a light on these dynamic entrepreneurs, waving the flag for small businesses and generally championing their socks off.

On top of our brilliant Partners, products and customers (not to mention our incredible team who have been busy beavering away from home since March), the last 12 months has seen great progress with our tech platform and customer experience. We are now looking to build on this momentum to drive our business to the next level. And that’s where you come in.

What we need

As our Senior Platform Engineer, you will join our platform engineering team assisting and building our new infrastructure, leveraging AWS cloud services to operate our platform composed of frontend & backend micro services for our customers, partners, and business users.

Some of the things you’ll be doing

• Work within our infrastructure team who is in charge of our online infrastructures deployed to AWS and maintains our QA/Staging/Production environments
• Participate in the design and implementation of new systems or infrastructures
• Provide the necessary tools, workflows and knowledge to development teams working on our infrastructure
• Play an active role in the development process, for example by pairing with software engineers to share your expertise and knowledge of current system, and assist our development teams when infrastructure changes are required to support upcoming releases
• Provide guidance to development teams to help them take ownership of their services and for them to provide on-call and out-of-hours support

Some key skills and experience you’ll need...

• Relevant experience as a Platform/Cloud/DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Strong background in Linux Administration and scripting in a IaaS platform (eg. AWS, Azure, GCE)
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of Cloudformation or a similar tool to manage infrastructure as code
• Good understanding of Cloud security models and best practices
• Good knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example Python, Ruby, Groovy)
• Experience managing a highly available infrastructure deployed on a IaaS platform to maintain a high availability of the overall infrastructure
• Experience working with Docker containers, Docker orchestrators and CI/CD pipelines
• Good problem solving skills
• Be a keen and voluntary team player with good interpersonal skills

...and some "nice to have"

• Experience working with AWS technologies like API gateways, lambdas, Cloudformation
• Practical knowledge of Jenkins 2, declarative pipelines
• Experience developing or working with auto-scaling system

Our perks

It’s important to us that our people are well looked after, which is why we offer everyone BUPA healthcare, life insurance and a pension plan. Because having a break is important for your physical and mental wellbeing, our holiday allowance is 25 days (plus bank holidays) AND your entitlement increases an extra day for every 2 years you spend with us.

The team spirit at NOTHS House is legendary, and while we all miss the in-office massages, hair cuts and the abundance of free fruit, we’ve taken to our virtual world with gusto and bring the team together regularly for socials and of course the odd Zoom quiz!

We endeavor to support our people to make sure work….well, works for them. And the pretty big issue of the recent global pandemic has propelled us into working more flexibly than ever before. With the office reopening in September (YAY!), we’re using the lessons learnt over this period to evolve our approach to flexible working, and we’ve introduced a hybrid working week. So the NOTHS team get to work flexibly for the majority of the week and visit beautiful Richmond once or twice a week to ensure we all still get together as one #teamnoths. Plus, as of 2022 we’ll begin trialing fully remote months in January (to avoid the snow) and August (to enjoy the sun).

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to equal opportunities and to building a more diverse and inclusive team and are working with our recently formed internal community in driving progress.

Apply to join #teamnoths

We’d love to hear more about you, your experience and why you’d like to join our team.

For now, our recruitment and induction processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology. If you are successful in your initial application we’ll explain more about next steps, as this can vary slightly from role to role. Good luck!