Principal Platform Engineer

TL;DR

Principal Platform Engineer: Designing, deploying, managing, and reinventing tools, services, components, and platforms for an engineering community with an accent on secure, reliable, reusable, and scalable cloud infrastructure. Focus on automating toil, improving platform services, and providing technical solutions to business issues at pace and scale.

Location: Hybrid in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is the team behind digital retailer Very, focused on helping families get more out of life.

What you will do

• Design, build and maintain secure, reliable, reusable, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Design, build and maintain build and release pipelines with integrated linting and testing.
• Manage integrations between hosting platforms and applications.
• Automate efficient working practices.
• Provide technical solutions to real business issues.

Requirements

• Experience building reliable, secure, scalable platforms.
• Understanding of AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins, EKS, ECS, VPC, EC2, AWS Firewall, Helm charts, Groovy, and Packer.
• Understanding of application development from conception to delivery.
• Must be based in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, to work in a hybrid model.

Nice to have

• Experience with Serverless application architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, hybrid working model.
• £1,000 flexible benefits allowance.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk.
• Matched pension up to 6%.
• Udemy learning access.
• Inclusive culture and environment.

Hiring process

• Initial call with the Talent Acquisition team.
• Technical Interview, including a take-home task followed by a 60-90 minute discussion on Teams.
• Behavioural Interview, a 60-minute onsite discussion focusing on softer skills.