Staff Platform Engineer
3 Days Old
Staff Platform Engineer
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Fleet
Description
Tempcover is at the forefront of the fast-growing world of short term insurance. Our mission is to make car insurance flexible, quick, and easy for drivers. We’ve sold millions of policies that have helped drivers get where they need to go, but we’re not finished there. We’re growing our team to help us continue in that mission.If you are extraordinary at what you do and want to be a part of a rapidly growing business at the cutting edge of the InsureTech industry, we would love to hear from you
What you'll be doing
- As a Staff Platform Engineer you'll be working as part of an agile team that provides services and tools to our internal engineering teams
- Suggest and drive change across the engineering team and both challenge and improve existing practices and systems
- Mentor and coach other engineers; helping them grow whilst fostering a strong engineering culture
- You'll be introducing new technologies and approaches, and play a key role in the technical direction that platform engineering at Tempcover should take, while providing support and maintenance of existing platforms
- Helping drive and shape a greenfield project to rebuild our cloud infrastructure - moving from Azure to AWS
What we're looking for
- Automation using an IaC approach
- CI/CD
- Dev Ops and continuous improvement
- Experience in developed or architected secure environments, pipelines software
- API Gateways, DNS and load-balancing for a micro service architecture (preferably using CloudFlare)
- Operating high load consumer-facing websites
- Site reliability engineering
- IaaS and PaaS platforms.
- Knowledge of cloud provider design principles, like AWS and Azureʼs Well- Architected frameworks
- Experience using scripting, and ideally programming with languages such as Go and C#
We are looking for someone who can also demonstrate:
- Using data to drive decision making
- Demonstrable experience of taking the lead in solving business problems
- Industry experience in implementing platform engineering approaches, and offering services to internal customers
- Willingness to learn and passion to keep yourself at the forefront of technology delivery
- Experience being part of a cross functional agile team, working together to solve problems and deliver outcomes
- Experience in leading a team of engineers, mentoring them and helping them grow in their careers
You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!
Our Commitment to you
At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.
What we offer
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 30 days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover and employee assistance programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
- Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
- Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected
**As a tech company who strives to get better every day, we use Metaview during the interview processes for note taking purposes. This records and transcribes interviews so the interviewer can fully focus on your conversation, rather than writing. This has no bearing on the assessment of you as a candidate and you can opt out at any time. Just let us know.**
- Location:
- Fleet, ENGLAND, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £80,000 - £100,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT & Technology
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