Platform Engineer Reading, United Kingdom

Any company can tell you about how they are a multi award winning, market leading business and yes, we are both of those things in the world of IoT connectivity! But we’re more than that. Our mission? To make IoT management a breeze for any device, anywhere. With over 10 million IoT subscriptions active in 165 countries and direct partnerships with 50 mobile networks, we connect you to more than 750 networks worldwide, delivering unmatched value across the IoT connectivity chain. Innovation is in our DNA, and we have an insatiable hunger to ‘wow’! While we may not always get it right, our drive to collaborate, innovate, and achieve top-notch customer satisfaction never wavers. We offer industry expertise, stellar service support, and the most flexible, resilient, and secure connectivity solutions on the market. Our expertise spans across various sectors, including industry, agriculture, healthcare, security, transport, utilities, and smart cities.

At Wireless Logic, we provide cutting-edge connectivity solutions and technologies to ensure a vast array of devices stay seamlessly connected. Join our Nebula squad as a Platform Engineer. You will collaborate with a dynamic team including Product Manager, Engineering Lead, and fellow engineers to define and build the tools and capabilities that will define our platform and developer experience. You’ll be joining us at a pivotal moment! We're transitioning to a product-driven culture where your voice and expertise will directly shape our strategic direction. This isn’t just another engineering role—it’s an opportunity to leave your mark on something transformative.

• Identify, implement and maintain developer experience and platform tooling to drive productivity within engineering.
• Build generic elements of our customer-facing platform.
• Contribute to CI/CD strategy with internal stakeholders and establish patterns that can be adopted company-wide.
• Monitor and drive improvements to performance and platform metrics.
• Collaborate with your colleagues and be a strong team player and mentor.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Continuously grow yourself, the team and organisation.

Required:

• Built and maintained production applications end-to-end with proven success.
• Skills in optimising application performance (frontend & backend).
• Worked with complex APIs.
• Pipelines, CI/CD with GitLab, GitHub or similar.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Ability to develop with other languages like PHP or Python.
• Understanding microservice architectures.
• Terraform.
• Knowledge of Open Telemetry, Prometheus etc.
• Strong knowledge of TDD.

Preferred:

• AWS API Gateway.
• Experience with AWS.
• Experience of platform engineering and providing tooling for other developers.
• Experience with Grafana or similar.
• Backstage or similar.
• Experience establishing development conventions or coding standards.

Nice to have:

• Previous exposure to the Product Operating Model (or any product-driven approach).

What Will Make You Shine at Wireless Logic:

• Employs technical excellence; produces high-quality, optimised and efficient solutions.
• Shifts engineering practices left; front-loads requirements, design, testing and success metrics.
• Executes pragmatic plans; tests assumptions through small, iterative and measurable changes.
• Owns end-to-end delivery; breaks down complex problems and communicates progress proactively.
• Implants user-centred thinking; crafts accessible interfaces considering diverse user needs.
• Collaborates cross-functionally; works closely with product, design and participates in agile ceremonies.
• Partners with Product; translates business requirements into technical solutions with balanced judgement.
• Balances technical debt; makes informed decisions about refactoring versus new development.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking; considers trade-offs, prioritises efforts and drives innovation.
• Shows adaptability; embraces alternative approaches when new information emerges.
• Communicates effectively; documents technical decisions and translates complex concepts for all stakeholders.
• Focuses on growth; self-motivates through continuous learning whilst guiding and mentoring others.

Why Come Work with Us?

• The chance to join a creative, entrepreneurial company where bold ideas are celebrated.
• Full training, ongoing support, and the tools to help you thrive and grow in your role.
• We’re a company with heart. We genuinely care about our people and make sure everyone feels valued, respected, and part of the family.

Benefits Of Being Part of the Team:

• 25 days holiday.
• Buy up to 5 days additional holiday.
• Birthday Day off.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave.
• Group Company Pension Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Discounted Gym membership at over 3000 Gyms.
• Optical cover.
• Company Sick Pay Scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Onsite parking.
• Access to a variety of online discounts on major retailers.
• Employee assistance program.

Overview of interview process at Wireless Logic:

• Tele Interview – Meet the people team.
• Behavioural Interview - Meet your hiring manager.
• Pair Programming Interview - Meet your peers.
• System Design Interview - Meet more peers.

If you require reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know. We will work together to best meet your needs.

Thank you so much for your interest in Wireless Logic Group, we appreciate the time and emotion that goes into an application. We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home. We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You’ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process, but we are currently excited to have our employees experience our office culture as much as possible. Wireless Logic Group unites and brings people together. We accomplish this when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. By applying for this role, you are consenting for us to hold and process your data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations. If you have any questions or wish to exercise your right to access, erase or restrict the holding or processing of your data please contact us (recruitment@wirelesslogic.com) and we will respond to your query as soon as possible.