Capital on Tap - Cloud Platform Engineer
Responsibilities
• Spend time in the office with product engineering teams, building relationships with developers and leads and understanding how they build, test and ship. • Turn what you see on the ground into a clear developer experience roadmap, and agree priorities with engineering leads and Platform Engineering. • Own the design of our application golden paths, and drive adoption across our services. • Shape our Internal Developer Platform (IDP), so a new service can go from idea to production through self-service provisioning with standards built in. • Drive progressive delivery with Flux, making releases safer, faster and more automated. • Set the standards for how product teams use Kubernetes, including cluster conventions, RBAC, product engineering CRDs and developer tooling such as Headlamp and Mirrord. • Define standards for configuration, variables and secrets, and build automated validation so they’re easy to follow. • Lead service autodiscovery, dependency mapping and health check standards across the estate, working closely with SRE. • Lead by example with AI, using it to speed up delivery and helping the team adopt it safely and effectively • Have a data driven mindset, using it to measure developer experience (e.g. lead time, deployment frequency, onboarding time, developer feedback) and use it to show impact and guide decisions. • Mentor engineers in the team, review designs and code, and help build a culture that treats developers as customers. • Write clear documentation and work directly with product engineers to understand their pain points and remove friction. • Our Values & Culture 🌞 • Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly. • Just Pilot: • Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.
Benefits
• Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard. • Be a Buddy: • Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done. • Owners and Dates: • Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback. • Feedback: • We’re Looking For 🔎 • A track record of designing and rolling out golden paths, paved roads or self-service platforms, and getting teams to adopt them. • Deep experience with CI/CD at scale (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy or similar). • Strong hands-on Kubernetes and Docker experience, including setting standards for teams who deploy to it. • Experience with GitOps and progressive delivery (Flux, Argo CD, Flagger or similar). • Strong infrastructure and platform coding skills with tools such as Terraform. • Someone who embraces AI as part of how they work, moves faster, automates repetitive stuff and focuses on the problems that matter, while knowing when to apply their own judgement. • Proficiency in Go, C#, Python or PowerShell, with experience building tools that other developers use. • A good understanding of how application teams build software, ideally with .NET experience. • A strong product mindset: you talk to your users, measure outcomes and prioritise based on evidence. • Someone who enjoys being in the office and close to the people they support. You’d rather sit with a team for a morning than guess from a backlog. • The ability to influence across teams and explain trade-offs clearly to engineers, leads and leadership. • Experience mentoring engineers and raising the bar in a team. • Interview Process 🤝 • Stage 1: 30 minute call with a Talent Partner • Stage 2: 75 minute technical tech & questions with the Developer Enablement Team lead & Team member (Video call) • Stage 3: 30 minute interview with our Head of Platform • Diversity & Inclusion 🌈We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work. • Diversity & Inclusion • Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here. • Other Info👍Check out our ‘Top Tips’ for interviewing.✔️Keep updated on new job opportunities by following us on Linkedin.📧Email [email protected] if you have any questions. • Other Info • Excited to work here? Apply!If you’d like to progress your career within our fast growing, profitable fintech then click apply and we will aim to get back to you within 3 working days (during busy periods this could take up to 5 working days.) • Excited to work here? Apply!
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