Platform Engineer
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Overview
BR-DGE is an award winning FinTech founded in Edinburgh. Our platform enables e-commerce and technology businesses to have the freedom and flexibility to redefine the way they handle payments. Since our inception in 2018 we have been leading the way in the future of payment orchestration. Our products enable enterprise businesses to optimise their payment infrastructure and create frictionless digital payment experiences for their end users. Now with a global reach, our customer base is made up of incredible brands and household names from across the travel, retail and gambling sectors and it’s growing fast! Our world class partners include Visa and Worldpay and we’re continuing to build a strong partner network with the biggest players in the payments industry. It’s an exciting time to be part of BR-DGE!
The journey so far has been incredible, but we’re just getting started and with ambitious growth plans, we’re now looking for more exceptional talent to join our team.
Become a BR-DGE Builder
About the role:
Our Platform team provides a stable, highly available, easy to use platform for our customers and application engineers with well-designed systems and solutions they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. We look for engineers with a passion for performance and reliability, and who enjoy taking projects from conception to production, whilst considering scale, resiliency and FinOps.
Our multi-region tech stack currently includes OKD, ArgoCD, Opensearch, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Couchbase and AWS. We are currently migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and have more planned!
As we deploy production services, we operate on-call rotations to ensure the health of the system. Everyone at BR-DGE uses our products in their day-to-day, so being on call is an important way to understand our system and how people use our products.
What you’ll be doing
- Working with and managing cloud-based infrastructure on AWS.
- Assisting with the maintenance and operation of our container orchestration platform.
- Helping to build and maintain infrastructure CI/CD pipelines.
- Contributing to our infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Working with all parts of our Platform infrastructure in linux (including scripting).
- Participating in out-of-hours, in-hours and incident management processes.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of our systems and processes.
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience with AWS.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, with a preference for Terraform.
- Working knowledge of Linux and command-line tools like Bash.
- An understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
- An interest in working with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, EKS).
- A collaborative mindset with a focus on problem-solving.
What would be great to have
- Experience with a container orchestration platform (Kubernetes, EKS).
- Exposure to CI/CD tooling like GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Knowledge of FinOps practices.
What we offer
- Salary up to £65k per annum (dependent on experience)
- Remote working allowance
- 33 days holiday including public holidays
- Birthday off
- Flexible and remote working
- Family healthcare
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- A culture that champions rapid career progression
- Investment in your learning and development
- Regular team events & socials
Seniority level
- Entry level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Engineering and Information Technology
- Location:
- United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £80,000 - £100,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT & Technology