Platform Engineer
Department:
Technology Employment Type:
Permanent Location:
London
Description
Next Chapter
We have been embarking on a new chapter where we are building out a game changing marketplace that will unite the currently disparate players in the workplace industry. We are not just delivering a single product; but a product led, innovation and data centric digital business that will be the dominant brand people use to find where and how they can work smarter, globally. With significant investment into the business, and with commercial real estate being one of the last major markets yet to be disrupted, we are uniquely positioned to lead the charge. Armed with experienced senior leaders who have navigated similar journeys in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and fast paced retail, we offer a rare opportunity to join a core team at the time of launching something special. We cater to the needs of all market participants with consumer-style websites and apps, integrating providers of workspaces from around the world, building platforms for employees to find the best places to work regardless of who manages them, and creating algorithms that unlock industry insights. Our strategy is clear, our leadership is empowering, and our core team has deep experience in commercial tech product and engineering. We prioritise value creation through engineering by employing the best current practices.
Our Team
We are a recently formed tech team, that has been built from the ground up since the second half of 2023. We have been focused on creating our first products that are launching in Q4 2024 and scaling out to the team needed to accelerate our products. The next phase is to mature the products and our team and practises.
We value cross functional collaboration and working as one team to meet our company goals, this includes both between the engineering teams, and with other disciplines including product and design. We encourage empowerment and ownership within our teams and decisions being made by the domain experts.
We operate a “you build it you run it” policy within our software engineering teams, so each team is responsible for creating and operating the infrastructure that they use in their technical services. This does come with some guide rails, which is where platform engineering comes in, to provide both code in terms of things like terraform modules and guidelines and expertise on best practises. What will you be doing?
You will help design, build and maintain our platforms used to develop and deliver our services. This will involve:
Managing infrastructure in our development and production environments in AWS Developing policies and terraform modules to standardize approaches to common problems Supporting software engineers manage their build pipelines using Github Actions Liaising with the security team to address infrastructure issues and helping shift security left by doing things such as helping engineers use Tenable in their build pipelines Assist software engineering teams in the management of infrastructure that they are responsible for Helping software engineering teams increase their operational maturity, and building the right observability in from the start Working across all the engineering teams and identifying areas where we are solving the same problem in different ways unnecessarily Championing platform improvements across multiple teams
Who are we looking for?
Alignment with our company behaviours: Play To Win, Own Your Outcome, Solve It Together, Help Each Other Grow Have a passion for building simple, elegant software solutions Defaults to working in an automation led, fully infrastructure as code environment Exposure to high velocity, complex, digital native environments Knowledge of service-oriented development, micro-service principles, and distributed architectures Fosters a positive, candid and supportive environment where data and insight wins Action biased taking ownership and building momentum Comfortable working reasonably independently within a small, empowered team Collaborative working with globally distributed teams Deep experience with public cloud infrastructure and cloud native and serverless principles – ideally AWS Experience with containers & container orchestration – ideally AWS ECS Experience with infrastructure as code tooling, for both infrastructure and other providers such as Pagerduty and New Relic, ideally Terraform via Terragrunt Experience with scripting, such as python and shell Experience with monitoring and observability tools – such as New Relic
What's in it for you?
Competitive pay scales reviewed annually Discretionary annual company bonus Private healthcare and life cover Hybrid working with a focus on connectivity, flexibility and bigger relationships as part of our workplace experience strategy Bespoke training programmes and our bespoke ‘Instant Learning’ portal Reward Gateway (discounts!) Wellbeing Centre Global Employee Assistance Programme Brilliant colleague recognition scheme, with quarterly and annual ‘Let’s Celebrate’ awards (with great prizes!) Generous referral scheme Laptop / tech provided At The Instant Group, we prioritise our people and our clients. We are committed to fostering diversity, equality and inclusion, providing equal opportunities in all aspects of employment. Our goal is a workforce that truly reflects society and our customers, creating an environment where every employee feels respected and empowered. When hiring or promoting from within, we see diverse experiences from a variety of backgrounds and welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability status or any other dimensions of diversity. Should you need any reasonable adjustments made to this application process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively.
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Department:
Technology Employment Type:
Permanent Location:
London
Description
Next Chapter
We have been embarking on a new chapter where we are building out a game changing marketplace that will unite the currently disparate players in the workplace industry. We are not just delivering a single product; but a product led, innovation and data centric digital business that will be the dominant brand people use to find where and how they can work smarter, globally. With significant investment into the business, and with commercial real estate being one of the last major markets yet to be disrupted, we are uniquely positioned to lead the charge. Armed with experienced senior leaders who have navigated similar journeys in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and fast paced retail, we offer a rare opportunity to join a core team at the time of launching something special. We cater to the needs of all market participants with consumer-style websites and apps, integrating providers of workspaces from around the world, building platforms for employees to find the best places to work regardless of who manages them, and creating algorithms that unlock industry insights. Our strategy is clear, our leadership is empowering, and our core team has deep experience in commercial tech product and engineering. We prioritise value creation through engineering by employing the best current practices.
Our Team
We are a recently formed tech team, that has been built from the ground up since the second half of 2023. We have been focused on creating our first products that are launching in Q4 2024 and scaling out to the team needed to accelerate our products. The next phase is to mature the products and our team and practises.
We value cross functional collaboration and working as one team to meet our company goals, this includes both between the engineering teams, and with other disciplines including product and design. We encourage empowerment and ownership within our teams and decisions being made by the domain experts.
We operate a “you build it you run it” policy within our software engineering teams, so each team is responsible for creating and operating the infrastructure that they use in their technical services. This does come with some guide rails, which is where platform engineering comes in, to provide both code in terms of things like terraform modules and guidelines and expertise on best practises. What will you be doing?
You will help design, build and maintain our platforms used to develop and deliver our services. This will involve:
Managing infrastructure in our development and production environments in AWS Developing policies and terraform modules to standardize approaches to common problems Supporting software engineers manage their build pipelines using Github Actions Liaising with the security team to address infrastructure issues and helping shift security left by doing things such as helping engineers use Tenable in their build pipelines Assist software engineering teams in the management of infrastructure that they are responsible for Helping software engineering teams increase their operational maturity, and building the right observability in from the start Working across all the engineering teams and identifying areas where we are solving the same problem in different ways unnecessarily Championing platform improvements across multiple teams
Who are we looking for?
Alignment with our company behaviours: Play To Win, Own Your Outcome, Solve It Together, Help Each Other Grow Have a passion for building simple, elegant software solutions Defaults to working in an automation led, fully infrastructure as code environment Exposure to high velocity, complex, digital native environments Knowledge of service-oriented development, micro-service principles, and distributed architectures Fosters a positive, candid and supportive environment where data and insight wins Action biased taking ownership and building momentum Comfortable working reasonably independently within a small, empowered team Collaborative working with globally distributed teams Deep experience with public cloud infrastructure and cloud native and serverless principles – ideally AWS Experience with containers & container orchestration – ideally AWS ECS Experience with infrastructure as code tooling, for both infrastructure and other providers such as Pagerduty and New Relic, ideally Terraform via Terragrunt Experience with scripting, such as python and shell Experience with monitoring and observability tools – such as New Relic
What's in it for you?
Competitive pay scales reviewed annually Discretionary annual company bonus Private healthcare and life cover Hybrid working with a focus on connectivity, flexibility and bigger relationships as part of our workplace experience strategy Bespoke training programmes and our bespoke ‘Instant Learning’ portal Reward Gateway (discounts!) Wellbeing Centre Global Employee Assistance Programme Brilliant colleague recognition scheme, with quarterly and annual ‘Let’s Celebrate’ awards (with great prizes!) Generous referral scheme Laptop / tech provided At The Instant Group, we prioritise our people and our clients. We are committed to fostering diversity, equality and inclusion, providing equal opportunities in all aspects of employment. Our goal is a workforce that truly reflects society and our customers, creating an environment where every employee feels respected and empowered. When hiring or promoting from within, we see diverse experiences from a variety of backgrounds and welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability status or any other dimensions of diversity. Should you need any reasonable adjustments made to this application process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively.
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