Infrastructure as Code Specialist – Cloud Engineering (Go/Java)

The role is focused on bringing public cloud to the company in a manner that is safe, compliant, flexible, and easy to use. We are looking for experienced engineers to join our team and help us achieve our goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and Design: Lead the design of reference architectures and reference applications for multiple patterns in each public cloud hosting provider (e.g., message-driven, simple web application, batch).
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Customization and Flexibility: Develop solutions that allow for flexibility and customization to support more advanced users.
• Infrastructure Provisioning: Enable developers to provision public cloud infrastructure in 10 minutes or less, ensuring regulatory compliance and auditability as standard.
• Decommissioning: Develop processes to enable developers to repeatably and reliably decommission infrastructure.
• Ephemeral Environments: Create short-lived ephemeral environments for integration testing and product demonstrations.
• Cost Management: Implement transparent and simple cost management solutions for engineering teams.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of cloud services.

Required Skills:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Experience with AWS services and architecture.
• Golang: Proficiency in Golang for building Terraform modules/providers, cloud-native applications, and infrastructure components.
• Kubernetes: Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Cloud Networking: Experience with cloud networking concepts and implementation.
• Docker: Knowledge of Docker for containerization and testing.
• Testing: Strong background in automated testing and test-driven development.
• End-user Documentation: Ability to create detailed and high-quality end-user documentation.
• Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile environments, particularly with Scrum.
• Code Quality: Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Ease of Change: Focus on building systems that are easy to modify and extend.
• Ease of Use: Prioritise user-friendly solutions that simplify complex processes.
• Asynchronous Working: Ability to work effectively in asynchronous environments.
• Detailed Documentation: Emphasis on creating comprehensive and high-quality documentation.
• End-user Feedback: Valuing and incorporating feedback from end-users to improve solutions.
• Psychological Safety: Fostering a safe environment for experimentation and innovation.
• Developer Advocacy: Advocating for the needs and interests of developers.
• Automation: Strong focus on automating repetitive tasks to increase efficiency.
• Inner and Open Source Contribution: Encouraging contributions to both internal and open-source projects.

You May Be a Fit If:

• You have at least 6 years of experience working in a professional environment as a software engineer.
• You have led the design and build of cloud-native applications written in Go.
• You have extensive experience with DevOps work, such as building CI/CD pipelines or setting up cloud hosting environments.
• You have a proven track record of mentoring other engineers, helping them to succeed and grow in their roles.
• You build effective work relationships, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and your colleagues at all levels and across all teams trust you.

Technologies We Use:

• Languages: Go and Java are our primary languages.
• Frontend: Any browser applications are based on React.
• CI/CD: Code lives in GitHub Enterprise and flows to production through a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions.
• Containers: Tenant application code runs in Kubernetes-managed Docker containers hosted in a mix of private and public clouds.
• Terraform: We build infrastructure-as-code tooling by publishing Terraform modules and providers. We manage state and Terraform execution on Terraform Enterprise server.
• Sentinel and Open Policy Agent (OPA): We use policy-as-code to build compliant and secure infrastructure.

Work Configuration:

This position is a hybrid role, coming into the London technology campus 3 days each week. Our teams are distributed across the UK and the US Eastern and Central time zones.

Skills Mandatory Skills: Integration Architecture, Java, Application Architecture, SOA and Microservices Based Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Data Architecture, Angular, JavaScript, Microservices, React, SpringBoot.