Ratepay is looking for a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team. As a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with the development team to ensure a seamless and reliable deployment pipeline. You will also collaborate with other teams to identify and implement best practices for cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and maintain Ratepay's cloud infrastructure in AWS at scale.
Own the org wide cloud and platform strategy and vision and execute it.
- Manage and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Enable development teams to own their deployed applications by providing them with the tools they need
- Create and maintain documentation on system architecture, processes, and procedures
- Observability: Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure issues
Guide and educate the engineering organisation about operations and reliability
Develop and implement security best practices for cloud infrastructure
- Stay up-to-date with the latest cloud technologies and trends
Undertake measured, methodical troubleshooting of complicated systems
You have knowledge of scalable production architectures (config management, monitoring, infrastructure-as-a-code, load balancing, CDNs, distributed systems)
You have experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) and most of the following technologies: Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kafka, Vault
Software and System Engineers with a passion for system reliability and observability, you will build reliability as a feature into our core infrastructure and applications.
Experience using Data to diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
Experience as a software developer [Python or Go].
You work anywhere in the stack, from right beside the OS and up.
Solid Linux background.
Familiarity with operations: metrics/statistics, incident management, post mortems etc.
You LOVE to automate things and passionate about mentoring and sharing knowledge
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- At least 8+ years of experience in AWS cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Proficient in build CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with security best practices for cloud infrastructure
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team, regardless of ethnic and social background, religious beliefs, worldview, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental limitations, age, marital status, educational background and nationality.
With over 250 employees and 40+ different nationalities, we take our values seriously. These include; ownership, growth, integrity, collaboration, customer centricity and inclusion (4/6 of our C-Level Board members are female).
