Orgvue is an organisational design and planning platform that empowers your business to transform its workforce by understanding the work people do and the skills they have. Our platform connects strategy to structure, providing clarity of vision, so you can build a more adaptable, better performing organisation that thrives in a constantly changing world of work. The world's largest and best-known enterprises and consulting firms use Orgvue to visualise and model current and future states of the organisation and make faster, more informed decisions. The company is headquartered in London, with offices in Philadelphia, The Hague, Toronto, and Sydney. Role: Principal Site Reliability Engineer You will be a senior technical leader focused on scaling and hardening our AWS- and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will collaborate across product, platform, and operations teams to ensure our systems are reliable, observable, and resilient - even at scale. This role combines hands-on technical skills with strategic vision, helping us build a world-class reliability culture and a robust engineering foundation for growth. We seek someone with technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a collaborative spirit. Responsibilities: Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across critical services Develop and implement cloud infrastructure and tooling strategies Enhance SRE practices across the organization Implement robust observability metrics, logs, and traces using our observability tools Guide the team in building automated, self-healing systems Own and evolve incident response processes, including on-call practices and post-mortem culture Mentor engineers on reliability, operational readiness, and scalable infrastructure best practices Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, and GitOps practices Collaborate with security, DevOps, and software teams to ensure compliance and operational excellence Evaluate and adopt tools and practices to improve platform performance and reliability Desired Skills & Experience: Experience leading SRE transformations Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) in production Strong experience with AWS core services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and knowledge of GitOps workflows Strong background in observability: metrics, visualization, logging, tracing Understanding of automation, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release strategies Experience with incident management, disaster recovery, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews Additional Benefits: Hybrid working: 1+ days a week in London office Wellbeing initiatives: coaching, fitness sessions, webinars, Wellbeing day Subsidised gym membership Private medical insurance, dental, vision, and life assurance 25 days holiday (increasing to 30) Summer Fridays (half-days in July and August) Employer pension contribution of 5% (if you contribute at least 3%) Season ticket loan Cycle to Work Scheme Annual discretionary bonus Here at Orgvue, we promote individualism and a diverse workforce to build our future success.
Jul 04, 2025
Full time
Orgvue is an organisational design and planning platform that empowers your business to transform its workforce by understanding the work people do and the skills they have. Our platform connects strategy to structure, providing clarity of vision, so you can build a more adaptable, better performing organisation that thrives in a constantly changing world of work. The world's largest and best-known enterprises and consulting firms use Orgvue to visualise and model current and future states of the organisation and make faster, more informed decisions. The company is headquartered in London, with offices in Philadelphia, The Hague, Toronto, and Sydney. Role: Principal Site Reliability Engineer You will be a senior technical leader focused on scaling and hardening our AWS- and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will collaborate across product, platform, and operations teams to ensure our systems are reliable, observable, and resilient - even at scale. This role combines hands-on technical skills with strategic vision, helping us build a world-class reliability culture and a robust engineering foundation for growth. We seek someone with technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a collaborative spirit. Responsibilities: Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across critical services Develop and implement cloud infrastructure and tooling strategies Enhance SRE practices across the organization Implement robust observability metrics, logs, and traces using our observability tools Guide the team in building automated, self-healing systems Own and evolve incident response processes, including on-call practices and post-mortem culture Mentor engineers on reliability, operational readiness, and scalable infrastructure best practices Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, and GitOps practices Collaborate with security, DevOps, and software teams to ensure compliance and operational excellence Evaluate and adopt tools and practices to improve platform performance and reliability Desired Skills & Experience: Experience leading SRE transformations Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) in production Strong experience with AWS core services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and knowledge of GitOps workflows Strong background in observability: metrics, visualization, logging, tracing Understanding of automation, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release strategies Experience with incident management, disaster recovery, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews Additional Benefits: Hybrid working: 1+ days a week in London office Wellbeing initiatives: coaching, fitness sessions, webinars, Wellbeing day Subsidised gym membership Private medical insurance, dental, vision, and life assurance 25 days holiday (increasing to 30) Summer Fridays (half-days in July and August) Employer pension contribution of 5% (if you contribute at least 3%) Season ticket loan Cycle to Work Scheme Annual discretionary bonus Here at Orgvue, we promote individualism and a diverse workforce to build our future success.
Principal DevOps Engineer page is loaded Principal DevOps Engineer Apply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R3743 The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist. Role Overview This DevOps engineer will be leading the implementation of automated software delivery for TP ICAPs platforms, with an emphasis on incorporating testing into the CI/CD process, to deliver change at pace whilst maintaining stability The role requires a business minded, highly collaborative, team-focussed DevOps engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers and testers in DevOps principles. Role Responsibilities Increase stability and velocity through process improvement and tooling Reduce manual overhead involved in software releases by fully automating delivery pipelines that includes testing Support the business in adopting processes and techniques to support an agile delivery model Work with architects, developers, testers and operations to automate builds, deployment and release of applications running in the cloud and on-premise Provide guidance on industry best practices for software deployment, development, and observability Engineer tooling to implement those practices Assist and architect where appropriate solutions using containerisation and serverless technologies Drive automation for environment management, logging and monitoring Engage with vendors and service providers to build strong relationships that can be leveraged by directly influencing products and services in the interest of the company, enabling the negotiation of favourable terms and extracting the best possible use of external resources To fulfil any additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business. Experience / Competences Essential Deep and broad experience of AWS Cloud platform and services DevOps and SRE principles Very good working knowledge of incorporating testing into CI/CD pipelines Understanding of various deployment patterns such as blue-green and canary Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu Proficiency in at least one of the following scripting languages; Python, GO, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy Programming language with a working knowledge in at least one of Java, C# (.NET Framework/Core), JavaScript (Node.js), Ruby, C++ Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus Knowledge and working experience of containerising application components including writing DockerFiles and deploying to Kubernetes Deep understanding of pipelines as code Observability concepts and tooling; Opensearch, Cribl, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch Experience of working with agile teams Job Band & Level: Manager / 7 Not The Perfect Fit? Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn't align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organisation. Our dedicated Talent Acquisition team is here to assist you in recognising how your unique skills and abilities can be a valuable contribution. Don't hesitate to take the leap and explore the possibilities. Your potential is what truly matters to us. Company Statement We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement. Location UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London About Us Connecting clients, communities and colleagues for sustainable growth TP ICAP connects people, platforms, ideas, and insight across the world's financial, energy and commodities markets. As a global leader in market infrastructure and data-led solutions, we enhance market access, increase efficiencies, and unlock possibilities. Work with us Joining TP ICAP puts you at the heart of markets that matter. You'll have the freedom to innovate and act on your initiative. We'll train you and build your abilities in your specialist area, so that you can become an expert in your field. And all within a connected network that's there to set you up for success. More about us TP ICAP Group is a collection of premium brands each with a distinct, client-focused offering. Underpinning and connecting these client-facing brands is the financial security, operational strength and know-how we have as a Group. Connections are at the heart of what we do. We combine our people's know-how with the latest technology to improve price discovery, trade execution and liquidity flow. Connections create strength. Through them, we help our clients to manage risk, realise investment strategies and expand the scope for growth. And connections act as a catalyst. Sparking richer solutions for our clients to break new ground, modernising markets for future performance, and creating dynamic careers for our people. Our capacity to connect builds trust, supports communities and gives us the power to anticipate and respond to change, whatever direction the world takes. It's what makes TP ICAP a mainstay in the global markets, now and in the future.
Jul 03, 2025
Full time
Principal DevOps Engineer page is loaded Principal DevOps Engineer Apply locations London time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R3743 The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist. Role Overview This DevOps engineer will be leading the implementation of automated software delivery for TP ICAPs platforms, with an emphasis on incorporating testing into the CI/CD process, to deliver change at pace whilst maintaining stability The role requires a business minded, highly collaborative, team-focussed DevOps engineer with exceptional communication skills to work with developers and testers in DevOps principles. Role Responsibilities Increase stability and velocity through process improvement and tooling Reduce manual overhead involved in software releases by fully automating delivery pipelines that includes testing Support the business in adopting processes and techniques to support an agile delivery model Work with architects, developers, testers and operations to automate builds, deployment and release of applications running in the cloud and on-premise Provide guidance on industry best practices for software deployment, development, and observability Engineer tooling to implement those practices Assist and architect where appropriate solutions using containerisation and serverless technologies Drive automation for environment management, logging and monitoring Engage with vendors and service providers to build strong relationships that can be leveraged by directly influencing products and services in the interest of the company, enabling the negotiation of favourable terms and extracting the best possible use of external resources To fulfil any additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business. Experience / Competences Essential Deep and broad experience of AWS Cloud platform and services DevOps and SRE principles Very good working knowledge of incorporating testing into CI/CD pipelines Understanding of various deployment patterns such as blue-green and canary Platforms; Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu Proficiency in at least one of the following scripting languages; Python, GO, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy Programming language with a working knowledge in at least one of Java, C# (.NET Framework/Core), JavaScript (Node.js), Ruby, C++ Developer tooling; Full stack CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus Knowledge and working experience of containerising application components including writing DockerFiles and deploying to Kubernetes Deep understanding of pipelines as code Observability concepts and tooling; Opensearch, Cribl, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch Experience of working with agile teams Job Band & Level: Manager / 7 Not The Perfect Fit? Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? At TP ICAP, we wholeheartedly believe in fostering inclusivity and cultivating a work environment where everyone can flourish, regardless of your personal or professional background. If you are enthusiastic about this role but find that your experience doesn't align perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal candidate for this position or another opportunity within our organisation. Our dedicated Talent Acquisition team is here to assist you in recognising how your unique skills and abilities can be a valuable contribution. Don't hesitate to take the leap and explore the possibilities. Your potential is what truly matters to us. Company Statement We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement. Location UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London About Us Connecting clients, communities and colleagues for sustainable growth TP ICAP connects people, platforms, ideas, and insight across the world's financial, energy and commodities markets. As a global leader in market infrastructure and data-led solutions, we enhance market access, increase efficiencies, and unlock possibilities. Work with us Joining TP ICAP puts you at the heart of markets that matter. You'll have the freedom to innovate and act on your initiative. We'll train you and build your abilities in your specialist area, so that you can become an expert in your field. And all within a connected network that's there to set you up for success. More about us TP ICAP Group is a collection of premium brands each with a distinct, client-focused offering. Underpinning and connecting these client-facing brands is the financial security, operational strength and know-how we have as a Group. Connections are at the heart of what we do. We combine our people's know-how with the latest technology to improve price discovery, trade execution and liquidity flow. Connections create strength. Through them, we help our clients to manage risk, realise investment strategies and expand the scope for growth. And connections act as a catalyst. Sparking richer solutions for our clients to break new ground, modernising markets for future performance, and creating dynamic careers for our people. Our capacity to connect builds trust, supports communities and gives us the power to anticipate and respond to change, whatever direction the world takes. It's what makes TP ICAP a mainstay in the global markets, now and in the future.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / ex - software engineer Fully Remote working for candidates based in the UK Salary £85k to £90k + Benefits We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer that has come from a Software Development Background in the past and who still has strong C# or Java or other similar OO development language combined with strong knowledge of DevOps tools like Kubernetes and/or Docker and Azure or AWS Cloud platforms. We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a Software Engineering background to join their growing global Cloud Infrastructure team supporting their SaaS products. Our client who are a Global Digital SaaS Software Company have a fantastic fully remote opportunity for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer to join their UK Cloud Infrastructure team. Senior Site Reliability Engineers at this company are responsible for keeping the SaaS products running properly. Using concepts of software and systems engineering, they work to improve the reliability of all cloud systems while keeping levels of manual work low. SREs are expected to be experienced in software engineering principals, operational discipline, and automation. The SRE team work on a fully remote basis and work in conjunction with their US and Australian teams as well. This company are a market leader in Student community management software, this company s unique SaaS platform is an essential platform in the life of millions of University students across the globe. In this role, you will apply your Software Engineering experience to enhance system performance and reliability, as well as building internal systems and capabilities that eliminate manual work through automation. You'll be joining our Platforms teams with globally-dispersed Site Reliability and Platform Engineers in a "follow the sun" model to operate our products on a multi-region cloud platform. Role Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership and mentoring within the team through knowledge sharing sessions, pair programming, code reviews and solution design Identify and implement technical solutions to improve platform reliability, including the creation of mitigation strategies and operational playbooks. Implement and maintain monitoring/alerting/logging systems to identify and respond to incidents Ensure scalability and efficiency of cloud infrastructure and systems to handle traffic and data growth Conduct performance tests to identify and remediate bottlenecks Develop and maintain platform solutions, automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management tasks using Infrastructure as Code. Monitor, review and tune databases to ensure high availability and performance Collaborate with product engineering teams to design/build fit-for-purpose and observable software Required Skills and Experience: Proven experience in a SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering role and having previously worked in a Software Engineering role in .Net and C# or Java or similar OO development language. Proficiency in C# or Java or another OO development language alongside knowledge of scripting languages like Bash, Python or PowerShell Production experience operating containerization technologies - ideally with Kubernetes and/or Docker. Proficiency with one or more public cloud providers such as Azure, AWS or GCP Proficiency using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform (preferred), Ansible, or CloudFormation. Experience with monitoring, observability and logging tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar. Proven track record of maintaining highly-available and performant production environments. Ability to identify and implement effective mitigation strategies and operational playbooks. Useful / Bonus Skills to have: Experience in CI/CD tooling: Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect) and DevOps practices (e.g., Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus Experience in database management/performance tuning, particularly MSSQL. Employee benefits: Opportunity to be a part of a 30+ year well-established, high-performance SaaS company. Excellent Company Pension scheme and Life Insurance, Excellent holiday allowance. A supportive team environment with emphasis on learning and development opportunities Working with a team of caring, high-performing, and passionate people who have fun supporting our vision, innovation, and continuous improvement. This Senior Site Reliability Engineer role is working for a market leading global software company and this job is part of a large program of change and improvement in their Cloud SaaS products over the coming years. If you are looking for an interesting SRE role with a forward-thinking global organisation, then this would be a tremendous career opportunity to consider. Please apply with your CV to find out more.
Jul 02, 2025
Full time
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / ex - software engineer Fully Remote working for candidates based in the UK Salary £85k to £90k + Benefits We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer that has come from a Software Development Background in the past and who still has strong C# or Java or other similar OO development language combined with strong knowledge of DevOps tools like Kubernetes and/or Docker and Azure or AWS Cloud platforms. We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a Software Engineering background to join their growing global Cloud Infrastructure team supporting their SaaS products. Our client who are a Global Digital SaaS Software Company have a fantastic fully remote opportunity for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer to join their UK Cloud Infrastructure team. Senior Site Reliability Engineers at this company are responsible for keeping the SaaS products running properly. Using concepts of software and systems engineering, they work to improve the reliability of all cloud systems while keeping levels of manual work low. SREs are expected to be experienced in software engineering principals, operational discipline, and automation. The SRE team work on a fully remote basis and work in conjunction with their US and Australian teams as well. This company are a market leader in Student community management software, this company s unique SaaS platform is an essential platform in the life of millions of University students across the globe. In this role, you will apply your Software Engineering experience to enhance system performance and reliability, as well as building internal systems and capabilities that eliminate manual work through automation. You'll be joining our Platforms teams with globally-dispersed Site Reliability and Platform Engineers in a "follow the sun" model to operate our products on a multi-region cloud platform. Role Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership and mentoring within the team through knowledge sharing sessions, pair programming, code reviews and solution design Identify and implement technical solutions to improve platform reliability, including the creation of mitigation strategies and operational playbooks. Implement and maintain monitoring/alerting/logging systems to identify and respond to incidents Ensure scalability and efficiency of cloud infrastructure and systems to handle traffic and data growth Conduct performance tests to identify and remediate bottlenecks Develop and maintain platform solutions, automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management tasks using Infrastructure as Code. Monitor, review and tune databases to ensure high availability and performance Collaborate with product engineering teams to design/build fit-for-purpose and observable software Required Skills and Experience: Proven experience in a SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering role and having previously worked in a Software Engineering role in .Net and C# or Java or similar OO development language. Proficiency in C# or Java or another OO development language alongside knowledge of scripting languages like Bash, Python or PowerShell Production experience operating containerization technologies - ideally with Kubernetes and/or Docker. Proficiency with one or more public cloud providers such as Azure, AWS or GCP Proficiency using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform (preferred), Ansible, or CloudFormation. Experience with monitoring, observability and logging tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar. Proven track record of maintaining highly-available and performant production environments. Ability to identify and implement effective mitigation strategies and operational playbooks. Useful / Bonus Skills to have: Experience in CI/CD tooling: Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect) and DevOps practices (e.g., Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus Experience in database management/performance tuning, particularly MSSQL. Employee benefits: Opportunity to be a part of a 30+ year well-established, high-performance SaaS company. Excellent Company Pension scheme and Life Insurance, Excellent holiday allowance. A supportive team environment with emphasis on learning and development opportunities Working with a team of caring, high-performing, and passionate people who have fun supporting our vision, innovation, and continuous improvement. This Senior Site Reliability Engineer role is working for a market leading global software company and this job is part of a large program of change and improvement in their Cloud SaaS products over the coming years. If you are looking for an interesting SRE role with a forward-thinking global organisation, then this would be a tremendous career opportunity to consider. Please apply with your CV to find out more.
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale - unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data - securing and protecting private information more effectively - Elastic's complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What Is The Role: You will have the opportunity to work with a tremendous services, engineering, product, and sales team and wear many hats. This is a meaningful role, as a Consulting Architect (Search), you have an outstanding chance to create an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers. As an Elastic Consulting Architect, you will be working closely with our customers to provide technical solutions for their business use cases with the Elastic Stack (which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats). You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers and help drive the customer's journey with Elastic by providing technical oversight, ongoing knowledge transfer and enablement. A successful consultant will be focused on excellence, taking the initiative for self-improvement and possess great communication skills. Our customers' use cases extend across all the Elastic Solutions: Enterprise Search, Observability and Security, and beyond, and the scale of data in their environments ranges from gigabytes to petabytes. This diverse mix of a customer base means the challenges they face that Elastic consultants help them with can often require problem solving skills and knowledge just as diverse. Our internal development and mentoring schemes ensure you have access to learn areas across the products and services we provide that you may not previously have had exposure to, in addition to which you will work closely with colleagues across the Professional Services, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success and Support teams to ensure the best experience for our customers along their Elastic journey. What You Will Be Doing: As a member of our professional services team you will deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products. Work with clients to facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops. You will apply your soft skills to advocate for your customers, build relationships and exhibit strong communications skills. Comfortability working remotely in a highly distributed team. Your activities will include end-to-end delivery of ground-breaking Elastic projects to our customers, as well as development of proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and its solutions. Other topics will include Elastic solutions adaption and acceleration along with data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale. Daily tasks include driving and handling the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time while meeting and exceeding the customer objectives. Work across teams with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature improvements, extensions, and product defects. Facilitate feedback from the field back to the product. Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns. Be a mentor to your team members, while also learning from them to accelerate your skills. What You Bring Along: Minimum 7 years as a consultant, engineer or architect who has deep expertise in Enterprise Search concepts and technology, including generative AI technologies. This should include solid experience deploying Elastic Search solutions or similar domains (Solr, Algolia, AWS OpenSearch, Palantir, Unbxd, e-commerce site search engines). You have designed and built custom search experiences for major customers, focussed on achieving and delivering value for their business. Experience in solving complex technical search problems in terms of relevancy, scaling, performance fine-tuning, building a platform to handle high query throughputs and indexing throughput, benchmarking clusters to achieve optimal performance. Experience leading Enterprise Search projects at both the architectural and program level. Experience working with monitoring tools that integrate into service management. Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering field preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Experience working to deliver and complete professional services engagements. Experience as a public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions. Excel at working directly with customers to capture, prioritize, plan and implement solutions aligned to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies. Understanding and passion for open-source technology as well as knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language. Strong hands-on experience with large distributed systems and application infrastructure from an architecture and development perspective. Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain. Understanding and/or certification in one or more of the following technology Kubernetes, Linux, Java and databases, Docker, Amazon Web Service (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), Kafka, Redis, VM's, Lucene. Occasional travel may be required. Bonus Points: Certifications and specialization in Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, NLP, Data Infrastructure, analytics Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification Experience working closely with a pre-sales organization in scoping the needs of Customers Comfortable with Ansible, JavaScript, Terraform ECK experience or Kubernetes Knowledge of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Proven understanding of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems Experience and curiosity about delivering and/or developing product training Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation LI-PF1 Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do. Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary Health coverage for you and your family in many locations Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles Generous number of vacation days each year Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email .We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws, view posters linked below: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision Poster; Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster and Know Your Rights (Poster) Elasticsearch develops and distributes encryption software and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People's Republic ("DNR"), and the Luhansk People's Republic ("LNR"). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic. . click apply for full job details
Jun 30, 2025
Full time
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale - unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data - securing and protecting private information more effectively - Elastic's complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What Is The Role: You will have the opportunity to work with a tremendous services, engineering, product, and sales team and wear many hats. This is a meaningful role, as a Consulting Architect (Search), you have an outstanding chance to create an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers. As an Elastic Consulting Architect, you will be working closely with our customers to provide technical solutions for their business use cases with the Elastic Stack (which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats). You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to our customers and help drive the customer's journey with Elastic by providing technical oversight, ongoing knowledge transfer and enablement. A successful consultant will be focused on excellence, taking the initiative for self-improvement and possess great communication skills. Our customers' use cases extend across all the Elastic Solutions: Enterprise Search, Observability and Security, and beyond, and the scale of data in their environments ranges from gigabytes to petabytes. This diverse mix of a customer base means the challenges they face that Elastic consultants help them with can often require problem solving skills and knowledge just as diverse. Our internal development and mentoring schemes ensure you have access to learn areas across the products and services we provide that you may not previously have had exposure to, in addition to which you will work closely with colleagues across the Professional Services, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success and Support teams to ensure the best experience for our customers along their Elastic journey. What You Will Be Doing: As a member of our professional services team you will deliver Elastic solutions and Elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products. Work with clients to facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and sizing in workshops. You will apply your soft skills to advocate for your customers, build relationships and exhibit strong communications skills. Comfortability working remotely in a highly distributed team. Your activities will include end-to-end delivery of ground-breaking Elastic projects to our customers, as well as development of proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and its solutions. Other topics will include Elastic solutions adaption and acceleration along with data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale. Daily tasks include driving and handling the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time while meeting and exceeding the customer objectives. Work across teams with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature improvements, extensions, and product defects. Facilitate feedback from the field back to the product. Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns. Be a mentor to your team members, while also learning from them to accelerate your skills. What You Bring Along: Minimum 7 years as a consultant, engineer or architect who has deep expertise in Enterprise Search concepts and technology, including generative AI technologies. This should include solid experience deploying Elastic Search solutions or similar domains (Solr, Algolia, AWS OpenSearch, Palantir, Unbxd, e-commerce site search engines). You have designed and built custom search experiences for major customers, focussed on achieving and delivering value for their business. Experience in solving complex technical search problems in terms of relevancy, scaling, performance fine-tuning, building a platform to handle high query throughputs and indexing throughput, benchmarking clusters to achieve optimal performance. Experience leading Enterprise Search projects at both the architectural and program level. Experience working with monitoring tools that integrate into service management. Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering field preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Experience working to deliver and complete professional services engagements. Experience as a public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions. Excel at working directly with customers to capture, prioritize, plan and implement solutions aligned to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies. Understanding and passion for open-source technology as well as knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language. Strong hands-on experience with large distributed systems and application infrastructure from an architecture and development perspective. Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain. Understanding and/or certification in one or more of the following technology Kubernetes, Linux, Java and databases, Docker, Amazon Web Service (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), Kafka, Redis, VM's, Lucene. Occasional travel may be required. Bonus Points: Certifications and specialization in Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, NLP, Data Infrastructure, analytics Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification Experience working closely with a pre-sales organization in scoping the needs of Customers Comfortable with Ansible, JavaScript, Terraform ECK experience or Kubernetes Knowledge of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Proven understanding of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems Experience and curiosity about delivering and/or developing product training Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation LI-PF1 Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do. Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary Health coverage for you and your family in many locations Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles Generous number of vacation days each year Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email .We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission. 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Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide. We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges. Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of. The Role We are seeking a motivated and experienced senior engineer to join our dynamic organisation. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in our UK&I division, you will be responsible for overseeing a group of employees, providing direction and support to ensure goals are met and operations run smoothly. If you have a strong background in team management and are ready to take on a new challenge, we want to hear from you. Come be a part of our team and make a positive impact on our organisation's success. What You'll Be Doing Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from design, deployment, operation, and refinement. Take an active part in production problems root cause investigation, identification, and resolution (where necessary) Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews. Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. Be an active part of performance and capacity testing; Optimize reliability monitoring & alerting; Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. Iteratively perform Auditing of performance and reliability vulnerabilities; Define and revise Service Level Indicators (SLIs); Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. What You'll Bring Deep familiarity building and troubleshooting release and build pipelines (ex Jenkins, buildkite, GitHub actions) Experience implementing creative approach in monitoring distributed systems while leveraging industry best practices (ex instrumenting tagging taxonomy across disparate systems) Experience building, managing, and deploying an application utilizing containerized microservices, in a distributed infrastructure (ex AWS, GCP, self hosted cloud) Experience leveraging new technologies when it best serves a business need Comprehensive understanding of incident management best practices Opinionated and knowledgable approach for implementing industry best practices Demonstrated experience developing teams, encouraging growth, serving as a technical mentor and leader Shows strength and comprehension in at least one programming languages (ex. Java, Python, Scala, Kotlin) Experience making large directional technical decisions (ex. Deciding which technology, or pattern to create or leverage) Experience being "on-call" for a service, and familiarity with incident notification tooling (ex. Pagerduty, Opsgenie) Comprehensive understanding of SRE principles (ex. Working knowledge of the Google SRE book) Demonstrated strength in leading a project in a agile/scrum environment Thrives in a diverse work environment We'd Like You To Master In Experience managing complex telemetry solutions which directly contributed to overall reliability Design greenfield solutions leveraging Configuration Management/Infrastructure as Code tools (ex. Chef, puppet, Terraform) Create automated tooling that contributed to multiple teams velocity Demonstrated experience with project management best practices Shows the ability to break down large technical concepts into effective communication with stakeholders from across the organization Extensive knowledge of networking best practices, tools, and observability Experiencing developing and deploying automated service configuration at the edge (ex. CDN configuration, certificate renewal) Work consulting with a team being able to advise on their technology, workflows, dev tooling, monitoring, alerting best practices Identified need for and lead development of automation that significantly reduced toil (ex Deployment pipelines, distributed dev environments) Built and maintained a system and culture that supported and implemented SLOs Has shown to be a thought leader contributing to the broader industry conversation about SRE principals and topics (ex. Speaking at conferences) This is what you should have. What do we have, you ask? Well you can check our amazing perks & benefits right here ! So are you in? Equal opportunities At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply. We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to . We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.
Jun 30, 2025
Full time
Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide. We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges. Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of. The Role We are seeking a motivated and experienced senior engineer to join our dynamic organisation. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in our UK&I division, you will be responsible for overseeing a group of employees, providing direction and support to ensure goals are met and operations run smoothly. If you have a strong background in team management and are ready to take on a new challenge, we want to hear from you. Come be a part of our team and make a positive impact on our organisation's success. What You'll Be Doing Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from design, deployment, operation, and refinement. Take an active part in production problems root cause investigation, identification, and resolution (where necessary) Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews. Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. Be an active part of performance and capacity testing; Optimize reliability monitoring & alerting; Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. Iteratively perform Auditing of performance and reliability vulnerabilities; Define and revise Service Level Indicators (SLIs); Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. What You'll Bring Deep familiarity building and troubleshooting release and build pipelines (ex Jenkins, buildkite, GitHub actions) Experience implementing creative approach in monitoring distributed systems while leveraging industry best practices (ex instrumenting tagging taxonomy across disparate systems) Experience building, managing, and deploying an application utilizing containerized microservices, in a distributed infrastructure (ex AWS, GCP, self hosted cloud) Experience leveraging new technologies when it best serves a business need Comprehensive understanding of incident management best practices Opinionated and knowledgable approach for implementing industry best practices Demonstrated experience developing teams, encouraging growth, serving as a technical mentor and leader Shows strength and comprehension in at least one programming languages (ex. Java, Python, Scala, Kotlin) Experience making large directional technical decisions (ex. Deciding which technology, or pattern to create or leverage) Experience being "on-call" for a service, and familiarity with incident notification tooling (ex. Pagerduty, Opsgenie) Comprehensive understanding of SRE principles (ex. Working knowledge of the Google SRE book) Demonstrated strength in leading a project in a agile/scrum environment Thrives in a diverse work environment We'd Like You To Master In Experience managing complex telemetry solutions which directly contributed to overall reliability Design greenfield solutions leveraging Configuration Management/Infrastructure as Code tools (ex. Chef, puppet, Terraform) Create automated tooling that contributed to multiple teams velocity Demonstrated experience with project management best practices Shows the ability to break down large technical concepts into effective communication with stakeholders from across the organization Extensive knowledge of networking best practices, tools, and observability Experiencing developing and deploying automated service configuration at the edge (ex. CDN configuration, certificate renewal) Work consulting with a team being able to advise on their technology, workflows, dev tooling, monitoring, alerting best practices Identified need for and lead development of automation that significantly reduced toil (ex Deployment pipelines, distributed dev environments) Built and maintained a system and culture that supported and implemented SLOs Has shown to be a thought leader contributing to the broader industry conversation about SRE principals and topics (ex. Speaking at conferences) This is what you should have. What do we have, you ask? Well you can check our amazing perks & benefits right here ! So are you in? Equal opportunities At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply. We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to . We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.
Press Tab to Move to Skip to Content Link Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Senior Solutions Architect - Long Standing Customers Company: Royal London Group Job Title: Senior Solution Architect Business Value Stream / Platform: Long Standing Customers Contract Type: Permanent Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 23rd June 2025 Context At Royal London Group our Senior Solutions Architects play a pivotal role in leading and shaping our technology landscape. Your primary objective is to enable our organisation to safely exploit the potential of technology capabilities to serve our society better. Your contribution directly impacts the value to our customers and members, and business growth across Domains / Business Value Streams of Protection/Assurance, Equity Release, Long-term Savings/Pensions, Long Standing Customers, Annuities. Our Senior Solutions Architects regularly work with senior stakeholders to guide the development of technology products and drive a portfolio of solutions for our core propositions. You will have the opportunity to bring your experience in modern architectural practices to innovate, refresh our estate and experiment across a complex range of organisational capabilities. Our projects incrementally develop enduring products and provide a range of exciting challenges including cloud computing, AI, consolidation, migration, integrations and simplification. Solutions typically involve changes to, or creation of, business processes, operating model, application, data flows, infrastructure, and integration of third-party services. You have a solid grasp of the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. We are committed to your growth and offer continuous learning opportunities, mentorship, and a clear path for professional development. You will join a supportive and inclusive team that values collaboration, trust, empowerment, and achieving together. We are seeking passionate and experienced Senior Solutions Architects with a strong technical background. If you are enthusiastic about leveraging your expertise to drive technological innovation and make a significant impact, we want to hear from you. About the role Reports into the Principal Architect (Lead Domain Architect) and aligned to the Business Value Stream to deliver innovative solutions that meet strategic business outcomes. Drives large-scale Policy Administration Systems migrations and challenge the status quo with modern architecture alternatives. Fast-paced project environment, working within an enduring squad in the regulated industry, preferably within Insurance, Life Assurance/Pensions/Annuities. Developing own and team capabilities is integral to all Architect roles at Royal London Group. Enjoys and willing to coach and mentor other architects. Provide Enterprise guidance, exploring application of emerging technology trends to enable the Principal Architects to influence the direction of our business and operating models. Utilises architecture modelling language such as ArchiMate, C4; EA tooling like Ardoq, BizzDesign, LeanIX, Orbus Infinity; pragmatic use of Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman to craft executable solution patterns. Visio designers need to be keen to adapt and learn! Responsibilities across three key dimensions: Interpret Business Needs Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work. Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle. Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), working closely with Business Architects and business stakeholders, to determine corresponding enterprise solution designs are traceable to transition state and change requirements. Assess Technology Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information. Analyses the business-IT environment to detect opportunities for ever-greening the legacy and technical debt and recommends options to make strategic improvements. Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software products, platforms and services through internal and external channels including vendor assessment for RFP. Consults with technical architecture peers to ensure all layers of architecture are evaluated and solutions constructed robustly including Security, Infrastructure, Networks. Apply Technology Leads evaluation, design and analysis across a group of technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards. Manage and design executable architecture for a single project or product or initiative with awareness of the need to stitch into other designs to develop enterprise capability. Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes. Works closely with the Product and Project Management offices to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised on the designs. Five Core Competencies: Interpersonal Excellence: Articulating concepts through compelling and relatable narratives to effectively educate, engage, influence and collaborate with stakeholders and peers to achieve architecture goals. Business and Technology Strategy: Identifying and seizing opportunities to align technology, processes and business plans with strategic goals, guiding effective and feasible choices, building flexibility and resilience across all vectors of our business. Critical Thinking: Constructively challenging as a coach and guide legacy assumptions and commonly held beliefs to adopt alternative modern methods to achieving enduring results. Solving problems, navigating complex situations and adapting to new information to drive business success. Digital Enablement: Applying design-thinking methods to ensure end-user needs and perspectives are addressed, identifying iterative solution development approaches, collaborating with platforms and other technical domains to manage interdependencies in achieving target states, and promoting best practices in a modern delivery environment. Architecture Foundations: Design the transition state architecture for the domain / Business Value Stream / Platform with ownership of non-functional requirements. Design and build solutions and roadmaps to transition the business towards the future state, underpinned by robust architectural frameworks for the organisation. Skills You have been developing your core competencies and bring technical breadth to provide credible design leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions. You are a hands-on architect, from an engineering background, who can consider multiple viewpoints, provide weighted solution options, experience of industry design patterns for modern architectures, clarity on breaking down packets of work and transition states to design solutions incrementally to meet business needs and align with target/transition states, and architectural governance and standards. Hands-on experience in modelling languages such as C4 and ArchiMate. Robust understanding of data and application migration technologies like Azure Data Factory. Knowledge of core policy platforms like Bravura Sonata, TCS BaNCS, FNZ and bespoke legacy systems Skills to modernise architectural estates and drive serviceability, observability dashboarding and metrics in end products. Good understanding of information principles, guardrails and processes spanning data within operational contexts such as Policy Administration Systems. Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies such as Agile, Incremental, DevOps, capable of engaging with engineers. Understanding of Domain Driven Design principles, EA patterns to decompose monoliths to microservices, Strangler Fig pattern, event sourcing. Proven analytical, influencing / consensus building, technical and communication skills. Engineering background in one or more of the following: Modern CI/CD pipelines with container orchestration and deployment technologies Cloud migration frameworks (Azure functions, Logic Apps, App Services) Java or Microsoft technologies, Azure platform and .Net ecosystem Database technologies and platforms like SQL, NoSQL, Data Lake, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Oracle Observability platforms like Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana About Royal London We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. OurPeople Promise to our colleaguesis that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible . click apply for full job details
Jun 29, 2025
Full time
Press Tab to Move to Skip to Content Link Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Senior Solutions Architect - Long Standing Customers Company: Royal London Group Job Title: Senior Solution Architect Business Value Stream / Platform: Long Standing Customers Contract Type: Permanent Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based Closing date: 23rd June 2025 Context At Royal London Group our Senior Solutions Architects play a pivotal role in leading and shaping our technology landscape. Your primary objective is to enable our organisation to safely exploit the potential of technology capabilities to serve our society better. Your contribution directly impacts the value to our customers and members, and business growth across Domains / Business Value Streams of Protection/Assurance, Equity Release, Long-term Savings/Pensions, Long Standing Customers, Annuities. Our Senior Solutions Architects regularly work with senior stakeholders to guide the development of technology products and drive a portfolio of solutions for our core propositions. You will have the opportunity to bring your experience in modern architectural practices to innovate, refresh our estate and experiment across a complex range of organisational capabilities. Our projects incrementally develop enduring products and provide a range of exciting challenges including cloud computing, AI, consolidation, migration, integrations and simplification. Solutions typically involve changes to, or creation of, business processes, operating model, application, data flows, infrastructure, and integration of third-party services. You have a solid grasp of the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. We are committed to your growth and offer continuous learning opportunities, mentorship, and a clear path for professional development. You will join a supportive and inclusive team that values collaboration, trust, empowerment, and achieving together. We are seeking passionate and experienced Senior Solutions Architects with a strong technical background. If you are enthusiastic about leveraging your expertise to drive technological innovation and make a significant impact, we want to hear from you. About the role Reports into the Principal Architect (Lead Domain Architect) and aligned to the Business Value Stream to deliver innovative solutions that meet strategic business outcomes. Drives large-scale Policy Administration Systems migrations and challenge the status quo with modern architecture alternatives. Fast-paced project environment, working within an enduring squad in the regulated industry, preferably within Insurance, Life Assurance/Pensions/Annuities. Developing own and team capabilities is integral to all Architect roles at Royal London Group. Enjoys and willing to coach and mentor other architects. Provide Enterprise guidance, exploring application of emerging technology trends to enable the Principal Architects to influence the direction of our business and operating models. Utilises architecture modelling language such as ArchiMate, C4; EA tooling like Ardoq, BizzDesign, LeanIX, Orbus Infinity; pragmatic use of Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman to craft executable solution patterns. Visio designers need to be keen to adapt and learn! Responsibilities across three key dimensions: Interpret Business Needs Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work. Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle. Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), working closely with Business Architects and business stakeholders, to determine corresponding enterprise solution designs are traceable to transition state and change requirements. Assess Technology Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements. Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information. Analyses the business-IT environment to detect opportunities for ever-greening the legacy and technical debt and recommends options to make strategic improvements. Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software products, platforms and services through internal and external channels including vendor assessment for RFP. Consults with technical architecture peers to ensure all layers of architecture are evaluated and solutions constructed robustly including Security, Infrastructure, Networks. Apply Technology Leads evaluation, design and analysis across a group of technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards. Manage and design executable architecture for a single project or product or initiative with awareness of the need to stitch into other designs to develop enterprise capability. Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes. Works closely with the Product and Project Management offices to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised on the designs. Five Core Competencies: Interpersonal Excellence: Articulating concepts through compelling and relatable narratives to effectively educate, engage, influence and collaborate with stakeholders and peers to achieve architecture goals. Business and Technology Strategy: Identifying and seizing opportunities to align technology, processes and business plans with strategic goals, guiding effective and feasible choices, building flexibility and resilience across all vectors of our business. Critical Thinking: Constructively challenging as a coach and guide legacy assumptions and commonly held beliefs to adopt alternative modern methods to achieving enduring results. Solving problems, navigating complex situations and adapting to new information to drive business success. Digital Enablement: Applying design-thinking methods to ensure end-user needs and perspectives are addressed, identifying iterative solution development approaches, collaborating with platforms and other technical domains to manage interdependencies in achieving target states, and promoting best practices in a modern delivery environment. Architecture Foundations: Design the transition state architecture for the domain / Business Value Stream / Platform with ownership of non-functional requirements. Design and build solutions and roadmaps to transition the business towards the future state, underpinned by robust architectural frameworks for the organisation. Skills You have been developing your core competencies and bring technical breadth to provide credible design leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions. You are a hands-on architect, from an engineering background, who can consider multiple viewpoints, provide weighted solution options, experience of industry design patterns for modern architectures, clarity on breaking down packets of work and transition states to design solutions incrementally to meet business needs and align with target/transition states, and architectural governance and standards. Hands-on experience in modelling languages such as C4 and ArchiMate. Robust understanding of data and application migration technologies like Azure Data Factory. Knowledge of core policy platforms like Bravura Sonata, TCS BaNCS, FNZ and bespoke legacy systems Skills to modernise architectural estates and drive serviceability, observability dashboarding and metrics in end products. Good understanding of information principles, guardrails and processes spanning data within operational contexts such as Policy Administration Systems. Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies such as Agile, Incremental, DevOps, capable of engaging with engineers. Understanding of Domain Driven Design principles, EA patterns to decompose monoliths to microservices, Strangler Fig pattern, event sourcing. Proven analytical, influencing / consensus building, technical and communication skills. Engineering background in one or more of the following: Modern CI/CD pipelines with container orchestration and deployment technologies Cloud migration frameworks (Azure functions, Logic Apps, App Services) Java or Microsoft technologies, Azure platform and .Net ecosystem Database technologies and platforms like SQL, NoSQL, Data Lake, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Oracle Observability platforms like Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana About Royal London We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. OurPeople Promise to our colleaguesis that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible . click apply for full job details
Job Overview: You will be part of a team to design, validate, test and help to build a complex infrastructure stack for a high-performance and resilient Arm's global engineering platform. You will enjoy a challenge doing research, development and testing of complete systems to a high standard. Working in the Solution Architecture Team, which is part of the Arm Engineering IT department, we are responsible for ensuring that we have a confirmed understanding of both our engineering infrastructure and the engineering workflows that run on top of it, by applying a mixture of Software, DevOps, Data Engineering, Data Analytics and Data Visualisation disciplines to a variety of complex engineering problems. This is an excellent opportunity to learn and expand your skills working with a complex engineering platform! Responsibilities: Architect, build and lead system integration processes to meet the engineering's needs. Evaluate any project constraints and devise alternatives to reduce risks, whilst performing process re-engineering. Analyse and find any impacts that technical changes may have on a business processes. Empower development teams to increase their efficiency and productivity. Perform continuous research on new technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives for the existing architectures. Required Skills and Experience: Experience implementing complex data and compute solutions at scale. infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform). Knowledge of programming languages such as Java or Python. Deep understanding of AWS or other cloud providers (e.g. GCP, Azure). Strong understanding of key security technologies and protocols such as TLS, OAuth and SPIFFE. Observability, alerting, metrics collection and visualisation (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace). "Nice To Have" Skills and Experience: We would be even more impressed if you are passionate about the following: Cluster processes performance tuning and optimisation. Migrating on-premises services to the cloud and running hybrids. Container orchestration deployment, configuration, and administration. (e.g. Docker Swarm, Kubernetes). Automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef). Analytics infrastructure and tooling (e.g. Databricks, Apache Spark). Technical leadership, championing standard methodologies, and leading technical product transformations. In Return: We are proud to have a set of behaviours that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy the ordinary and shape the extraordinary. Accommodations at Arm At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email . To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process. Hybrid Working at Arm Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you. Equal Opportunities at Arm Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Jun 27, 2025
Full time
Job Overview: You will be part of a team to design, validate, test and help to build a complex infrastructure stack for a high-performance and resilient Arm's global engineering platform. You will enjoy a challenge doing research, development and testing of complete systems to a high standard. Working in the Solution Architecture Team, which is part of the Arm Engineering IT department, we are responsible for ensuring that we have a confirmed understanding of both our engineering infrastructure and the engineering workflows that run on top of it, by applying a mixture of Software, DevOps, Data Engineering, Data Analytics and Data Visualisation disciplines to a variety of complex engineering problems. This is an excellent opportunity to learn and expand your skills working with a complex engineering platform! Responsibilities: Architect, build and lead system integration processes to meet the engineering's needs. Evaluate any project constraints and devise alternatives to reduce risks, whilst performing process re-engineering. Analyse and find any impacts that technical changes may have on a business processes. Empower development teams to increase their efficiency and productivity. Perform continuous research on new technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives for the existing architectures. Required Skills and Experience: Experience implementing complex data and compute solutions at scale. infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform). Knowledge of programming languages such as Java or Python. Deep understanding of AWS or other cloud providers (e.g. GCP, Azure). Strong understanding of key security technologies and protocols such as TLS, OAuth and SPIFFE. Observability, alerting, metrics collection and visualisation (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace). "Nice To Have" Skills and Experience: We would be even more impressed if you are passionate about the following: Cluster processes performance tuning and optimisation. Migrating on-premises services to the cloud and running hybrids. Container orchestration deployment, configuration, and administration. (e.g. Docker Swarm, Kubernetes). Automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef). Analytics infrastructure and tooling (e.g. Databricks, Apache Spark). Technical leadership, championing standard methodologies, and leading technical product transformations. In Return: We are proud to have a set of behaviours that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy the ordinary and shape the extraordinary. Accommodations at Arm At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email . To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process. Hybrid Working at Arm Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you. Equal Opportunities at Arm Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
About the Company Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. In London, we have a remote work policy. The Department: Nifty Gateway Nifty Gateway Studio brings together artists and their communities through NFTs. We work with today'sleading creative minds to push the boundaries of human experiences through the development ofextraordinary creative experiences built on-chain. Nifty Gateway was founded by Duncan and GriffinCock Foster in 2018, and acquired by Gemini in 2019, with the belief that crypto networks and theblockchain have the power to fundamentally change the art world by creating greater choice,independence, and opportunity for artists, creators, and collectors. The Role: Principal Software Engineer At the Principal level, engineers are expected to master their immediate domain and have broad impactacross other engineering teams. This person will define technical direction, unblock and mentorteammates, and tackle the most complex system and architectural challenges. Principal engineers aredistinguished by their organization-level impact and focus on high-leverage activity, in addition to directcode contribution. Beyond pure technical focus, Principals bridge the gap between management and engineering - they obsess over not only the how, but also what and why, and are able to disseminate thiscontext to both audiences, up-leveling the entire organization in depth and delivery. Responsibilities: Influence leadership / CTO organization and collaborate with other Principal Engineers across the organization to build the right software architecture for Nifty Gateway. Design, implement, deploy, and maintain services supporting multiple engineering teams. Advocate and model technical and operational excellence. Drive large cross-group technical initiatives. Set long-term technical strategy for services within and adjacent to primary domain. Review, validate and provide feedback on technical design documents. Perform thorough code reviews to ensure quality and up-level peers. Minimum Qualifications: 8-10 years software development experience. We primarily use Python (Django framework with DRF for API). 5 years in-depth experience with distributed systems or cloud computing. We primarily use AWS native technologies, Docker. Significant experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code. We often useTerraform and Ansible. Experience building and owning low-latency, high-availability critical systems or cloud-basedservices. Experience defining, managing, and executing a portfolio of complex engineering projects. Preferred Qualifications: Expertise in event-driven architecture. Expertise in instrumentation, observability and monitoring. Experience with container and orchestration technologies and relevant security considerations.We often use Kubernetes and EKS. Expertise in Relational and non-relational databases. Experience in Celery, EventBridge, SQS and SNS. Experience in Unity Framework, Generative AI. It Pays to Work Here We take a holistic approach to compensation at Gemini, which includes: Competitive Compensation Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant Up to 28 paid holidays (in addition to public/bank holidays) Retirement Plan Matching Generous Parental leave Comprehensive health plans Training and professional development
Jun 21, 2025
Full time
About the Company Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. In London, we have a remote work policy. The Department: Nifty Gateway Nifty Gateway Studio brings together artists and their communities through NFTs. We work with today'sleading creative minds to push the boundaries of human experiences through the development ofextraordinary creative experiences built on-chain. Nifty Gateway was founded by Duncan and GriffinCock Foster in 2018, and acquired by Gemini in 2019, with the belief that crypto networks and theblockchain have the power to fundamentally change the art world by creating greater choice,independence, and opportunity for artists, creators, and collectors. The Role: Principal Software Engineer At the Principal level, engineers are expected to master their immediate domain and have broad impactacross other engineering teams. This person will define technical direction, unblock and mentorteammates, and tackle the most complex system and architectural challenges. Principal engineers aredistinguished by their organization-level impact and focus on high-leverage activity, in addition to directcode contribution. Beyond pure technical focus, Principals bridge the gap between management and engineering - they obsess over not only the how, but also what and why, and are able to disseminate thiscontext to both audiences, up-leveling the entire organization in depth and delivery. Responsibilities: Influence leadership / CTO organization and collaborate with other Principal Engineers across the organization to build the right software architecture for Nifty Gateway. Design, implement, deploy, and maintain services supporting multiple engineering teams. Advocate and model technical and operational excellence. Drive large cross-group technical initiatives. Set long-term technical strategy for services within and adjacent to primary domain. Review, validate and provide feedback on technical design documents. Perform thorough code reviews to ensure quality and up-level peers. Minimum Qualifications: 8-10 years software development experience. We primarily use Python (Django framework with DRF for API). 5 years in-depth experience with distributed systems or cloud computing. We primarily use AWS native technologies, Docker. Significant experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code. We often useTerraform and Ansible. Experience building and owning low-latency, high-availability critical systems or cloud-basedservices. Experience defining, managing, and executing a portfolio of complex engineering projects. Preferred Qualifications: Expertise in event-driven architecture. Expertise in instrumentation, observability and monitoring. Experience with container and orchestration technologies and relevant security considerations.We often use Kubernetes and EKS. Expertise in Relational and non-relational databases. Experience in Celery, EventBridge, SQS and SNS. Experience in Unity Framework, Generative AI. It Pays to Work Here We take a holistic approach to compensation at Gemini, which includes: Competitive Compensation Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant Up to 28 paid holidays (in addition to public/bank holidays) Retirement Plan Matching Generous Parental leave Comprehensive health plans Training and professional development
We are looking for a technical expert with deep data platform engineering experience, who thrives on solving complex problems, driving business impact, and coaching other engineers. Salary: £75k - £100K Reporting to: Shaun Howell, Tech Director Location: primarily based in our London Office, with flexible and hybrid working (ideally three days per week in the office). About us At VivaCity, we make cities smarter, safer, and more sustainable. We have over 5,000 AI sensors around the world, gathering real-time anonymous data on transport modes, traffic flow, and travel patterns. This is used to gather actionable insights to support strategic decisions to improve the global transport network. All our solutions are community-centric, using 'privacy by design' principles. Our ultimate goal is to make the European vision of a Smart City - one which makes the city work effectively, for the community. We pride ourselves on a collaborative, open culture that fosters innovation, learning and encourages everyone to do their best work, whilst building a sense of community and collaboration. Read more about what it's like to work at VivaCity . About the role As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will report directly to the Head of Engineering, taking responsibility for designing, improving, and maintaining critical systems which transport hundreds of gigabytes per day and trillions of messages per year. A key focus of this role is ensuring the reliability, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness of our systems. Your work will be crucial in our mission to empower safe and sustainable transport around the world through data insights. You will have primary accountability for our cloud data pipeline & underlying infrastructure, including Apache Kafka, Go microservices, a PostgreSQL database, Kubernetes, Vault, and other cloud services, as well as on-premise infrastructure. Your technical expertise will be instrumental in optimizing the performance, maintainability, and operational costs of these systems while ensuring they meet business needs. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Cloud and AI team, establish technical standards, lead architectural decision-making, and proactively share knowledge with colleagues. This role does not involve line management, but at VivaCity we view principal engineers as leaders, working alongside engineering managers. You will provide mentorship, technical guidance and training to engineers across the department. About you You are a technical expert with a proven ability to creatively solve complex problems across a broad remit, optimize systems for reliability and cost, and navigate ambiguity to deliver impactful solutions. You have a deep understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, and you thrive in an environment that values collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. You proactively and effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, earning trust and influence through your knowledge and proactive, considerate approach. You are passionate about simplifying complex systems and seek opportunities to balance immediate delivery with long-term improvements. You continue working on problems, even when you are not familiar with the problem space, and you know when and how to ask for help. Requirements for the role Deep expertise in Apache Kafka (ideally Kafka Strimzi), including broker management, scaling, upgrades, and integration with high-throughput data pipelines. Strong experience designing, implementing and managing cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness (we use Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform). Proficiency in Unix systems, ideally Linux (we use Ubuntu). Exceptional communication skills, with experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders. Proven ability to resolve technical incidents in unfamiliar production systems. Technical and process documentation champion. Experience of operationally managing production software components, including observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging, and live incident management. Your time will be spent roughly as follows: 50% - Proactive technical work (e.g. changes to drive reliability, costs or customer value improvements) 30% - Reactive technical work (e.g. incident response, unblocking engineers, code review) 10% - Technical leadership initiatives (e.g. establishing technical standards, architectural principles, & staff training) 10% - Planning and administration This is a unique opportunity to lead impactful technical initiatives, work with cutting-edge infrastructure, and help shape the future of our systems and engineering practices. The following would further strengthen an application Proficiency with Hashicorp Vault including secret and role management. Proficiency with PostgreSQL (we use TimescaleDB), including query optimisation and SQL proficiency. Proficiency in one or more programming languages (we primarily use Go and TypeScript). Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform. Familiarity with common DevOps tools and CI/CD processes. Proficiency with infrastructure management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet) Experience with internal developer platforms. Knowledge of information security principles, including identity and access management and authentication/authorisation processes. Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment. Passion for sustainability, transport or smart cities. You don't need to have done all of these things before, but to excel in this role, you will need to be keen to learn and comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. If you're close to what we're looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. Hiring process 30 minute screening interview. 1.5 hour system design interview where you work together with a VivaCity engineer 2.5 hours final round interview, split into a 1 hour technical experience interview, 1 hour soft skills interview, and 30 minutes with Shaun, our Head of Engineering We know that diverse ideas and perspectives drive innovation and make us better. We are creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. We're an equal opportunities employer and all applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, or social background. If you need any reasonable accommodations to help you perform at your best during the application process, please let us know. What we offer: 25 days of holiday Flexible working hours and work from home Up to 30 days per year work from abroad Up to 3 flexible bank holiday days 3% employer pension contribution £200 total working from home budget Enhanced parental leave Up to 3 'childcare' or 'dependant' days per year Mental health support through Spill Discounted gym memberships through GymFlex £50 per person per quarter team social budget Additional entertainment budget and company parties Office food and drinks Optional Bupa healthcare and dental care through salary deduction Eye care vouchers Seasonal Flu jabs Cycle to work scheme Payroll giving through salary sacrifice
Feb 20, 2025
Full time
We are looking for a technical expert with deep data platform engineering experience, who thrives on solving complex problems, driving business impact, and coaching other engineers. Salary: £75k - £100K Reporting to: Shaun Howell, Tech Director Location: primarily based in our London Office, with flexible and hybrid working (ideally three days per week in the office). About us At VivaCity, we make cities smarter, safer, and more sustainable. We have over 5,000 AI sensors around the world, gathering real-time anonymous data on transport modes, traffic flow, and travel patterns. This is used to gather actionable insights to support strategic decisions to improve the global transport network. All our solutions are community-centric, using 'privacy by design' principles. Our ultimate goal is to make the European vision of a Smart City - one which makes the city work effectively, for the community. We pride ourselves on a collaborative, open culture that fosters innovation, learning and encourages everyone to do their best work, whilst building a sense of community and collaboration. Read more about what it's like to work at VivaCity . About the role As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will report directly to the Head of Engineering, taking responsibility for designing, improving, and maintaining critical systems which transport hundreds of gigabytes per day and trillions of messages per year. A key focus of this role is ensuring the reliability, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness of our systems. Your work will be crucial in our mission to empower safe and sustainable transport around the world through data insights. You will have primary accountability for our cloud data pipeline & underlying infrastructure, including Apache Kafka, Go microservices, a PostgreSQL database, Kubernetes, Vault, and other cloud services, as well as on-premise infrastructure. Your technical expertise will be instrumental in optimizing the performance, maintainability, and operational costs of these systems while ensuring they meet business needs. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Cloud and AI team, establish technical standards, lead architectural decision-making, and proactively share knowledge with colleagues. This role does not involve line management, but at VivaCity we view principal engineers as leaders, working alongside engineering managers. You will provide mentorship, technical guidance and training to engineers across the department. About you You are a technical expert with a proven ability to creatively solve complex problems across a broad remit, optimize systems for reliability and cost, and navigate ambiguity to deliver impactful solutions. You have a deep understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, and you thrive in an environment that values collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. You proactively and effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, earning trust and influence through your knowledge and proactive, considerate approach. You are passionate about simplifying complex systems and seek opportunities to balance immediate delivery with long-term improvements. You continue working on problems, even when you are not familiar with the problem space, and you know when and how to ask for help. Requirements for the role Deep expertise in Apache Kafka (ideally Kafka Strimzi), including broker management, scaling, upgrades, and integration with high-throughput data pipelines. Strong experience designing, implementing and managing cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness (we use Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform). Proficiency in Unix systems, ideally Linux (we use Ubuntu). Exceptional communication skills, with experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders. Proven ability to resolve technical incidents in unfamiliar production systems. Technical and process documentation champion. Experience of operationally managing production software components, including observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging, and live incident management. Your time will be spent roughly as follows: 50% - Proactive technical work (e.g. changes to drive reliability, costs or customer value improvements) 30% - Reactive technical work (e.g. incident response, unblocking engineers, code review) 10% - Technical leadership initiatives (e.g. establishing technical standards, architectural principles, & staff training) 10% - Planning and administration This is a unique opportunity to lead impactful technical initiatives, work with cutting-edge infrastructure, and help shape the future of our systems and engineering practices. The following would further strengthen an application Proficiency with Hashicorp Vault including secret and role management. Proficiency with PostgreSQL (we use TimescaleDB), including query optimisation and SQL proficiency. Proficiency in one or more programming languages (we primarily use Go and TypeScript). Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform. Familiarity with common DevOps tools and CI/CD processes. Proficiency with infrastructure management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet) Experience with internal developer platforms. Knowledge of information security principles, including identity and access management and authentication/authorisation processes. Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment. Passion for sustainability, transport or smart cities. You don't need to have done all of these things before, but to excel in this role, you will need to be keen to learn and comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. If you're close to what we're looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. Hiring process 30 minute screening interview. 1.5 hour system design interview where you work together with a VivaCity engineer 2.5 hours final round interview, split into a 1 hour technical experience interview, 1 hour soft skills interview, and 30 minutes with Shaun, our Head of Engineering We know that diverse ideas and perspectives drive innovation and make us better. We are creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work. We're an equal opportunities employer and all applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, or social background. If you need any reasonable accommodations to help you perform at your best during the application process, please let us know. What we offer: 25 days of holiday Flexible working hours and work from home Up to 30 days per year work from abroad Up to 3 flexible bank holiday days 3% employer pension contribution £200 total working from home budget Enhanced parental leave Up to 3 'childcare' or 'dependant' days per year Mental health support through Spill Discounted gym memberships through GymFlex £50 per person per quarter team social budget Additional entertainment budget and company parties Office food and drinks Optional Bupa healthcare and dental care through salary deduction Eye care vouchers Seasonal Flu jabs Cycle to work scheme Payroll giving through salary sacrifice
Salary: £90,000 - £100,000 Engineering Manager We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Which? Technology team on a permanent, full-time basis. Despite the current circumstances we are still actively recruiting for roles. In compliance with UK Government advice relating to COVID-19, this role may initially be remotely based in line with the rest of our workforce and we will supply you with the tools and technologies to enable you to work in this way. During this phase, interviews will likely be conducted over video conferencing technology, e.g. Google Hangouts or similar. It's a pivotal time for Technology at Which? as we drive forward our ambitious transformation programme, putting users at the heart of every product we create, evolving our technologies to deliver best in class user experiences. Over the next twelve months we will be developing both our commercial and advocacy product offering, trialling new ways of working, driving innovation and enabling the teams we work with, both supporting existing systems and in the provision of new ones. What you'll do As a leader in the Engineering department you will be working with other Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to empower the engineering teams that enable Which? to deliver its mission to reduce consumer harm by making life simpler, fairer and safer. Working as part of a mutli-disciplinary team you'll work collaboratively with other team members to set the vision for our delivery squads and translate that vision into clear, focused deliverables. You'll help the team meet our high standards for the quality, security, accessibility and architecture of the software we ship. Along with the other Engineering Managers you'll help recruit and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers. As part of the broader engineering leadership team you will contribute to our best practices and standards and be a champion for the innovative use of technology. You'll also contribute to the wider technology strategy and help us deliver as a department. What's important to us Experience in an agile Product Development environment and how it adds value to an organisation Empathy and a willingness to invest in others Transparency and collaboration Pragmatism and a bias for action A willingness to learn and teach others A passion to help us in our mission Diversity and inclusion Our technology You can't know everything but we're looking for deep experience in a range of these areas Front End technologies e.g. React.js, Typescript, HTML5, CSS & SASS (Product teams) Back End technologies e.g. Java Kotlin/Spring Boot/GraphQL (Platform team) Mobile technologies e.g. React Native, Typescript, CSS & SASS (Mobile team) CDNs, currently cloudfront Core JavaScript in the browser and server Cloud infrastructure, predominantly AWS CI/CD best practice and tooling e.g. CircleCI, Travis CI, Jenkins SQL, Redis, Graph and other DB technologies Experience of API design and best practice, using both REST and GraphQL Observability tools e.g. NewRelic, AirBrake, Sentry Helpful experience Working as part of a broader technology leadership team Contributing towards Tech Strategies Participation in product discovery Planning, designing and measuring the impact of new features and changes Working with modern design patterns to build cloud native solutions Experience working directly with senior stakeholders Interviewing and hiring Line management or mentoring Experience driving commercial outcomes We're committed to making sure our application process is accessible to everyone who would like to apply for any of our vacancies! Please reach out to if you need us to provide an alternative application method to support your accessibility needs.
Sep 07, 2022
Full time
Salary: £90,000 - £100,000 Engineering Manager We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Which? Technology team on a permanent, full-time basis. Despite the current circumstances we are still actively recruiting for roles. In compliance with UK Government advice relating to COVID-19, this role may initially be remotely based in line with the rest of our workforce and we will supply you with the tools and technologies to enable you to work in this way. During this phase, interviews will likely be conducted over video conferencing technology, e.g. Google Hangouts or similar. It's a pivotal time for Technology at Which? as we drive forward our ambitious transformation programme, putting users at the heart of every product we create, evolving our technologies to deliver best in class user experiences. Over the next twelve months we will be developing both our commercial and advocacy product offering, trialling new ways of working, driving innovation and enabling the teams we work with, both supporting existing systems and in the provision of new ones. What you'll do As a leader in the Engineering department you will be working with other Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to empower the engineering teams that enable Which? to deliver its mission to reduce consumer harm by making life simpler, fairer and safer. Working as part of a mutli-disciplinary team you'll work collaboratively with other team members to set the vision for our delivery squads and translate that vision into clear, focused deliverables. You'll help the team meet our high standards for the quality, security, accessibility and architecture of the software we ship. Along with the other Engineering Managers you'll help recruit and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers. As part of the broader engineering leadership team you will contribute to our best practices and standards and be a champion for the innovative use of technology. You'll also contribute to the wider technology strategy and help us deliver as a department. What's important to us Experience in an agile Product Development environment and how it adds value to an organisation Empathy and a willingness to invest in others Transparency and collaboration Pragmatism and a bias for action A willingness to learn and teach others A passion to help us in our mission Diversity and inclusion Our technology You can't know everything but we're looking for deep experience in a range of these areas Front End technologies e.g. React.js, Typescript, HTML5, CSS & SASS (Product teams) Back End technologies e.g. Java Kotlin/Spring Boot/GraphQL (Platform team) Mobile technologies e.g. React Native, Typescript, CSS & SASS (Mobile team) CDNs, currently cloudfront Core JavaScript in the browser and server Cloud infrastructure, predominantly AWS CI/CD best practice and tooling e.g. CircleCI, Travis CI, Jenkins SQL, Redis, Graph and other DB technologies Experience of API design and best practice, using both REST and GraphQL Observability tools e.g. NewRelic, AirBrake, Sentry Helpful experience Working as part of a broader technology leadership team Contributing towards Tech Strategies Participation in product discovery Planning, designing and measuring the impact of new features and changes Working with modern design patterns to build cloud native solutions Experience working directly with senior stakeholders Interviewing and hiring Line management or mentoring Experience driving commercial outcomes We're committed to making sure our application process is accessible to everyone who would like to apply for any of our vacancies! Please reach out to if you need us to provide an alternative application method to support your accessibility needs.
At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone - so we've made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at people's fingertips. The Core Banking group operates TrueLayer's payment ledgers and it is in charge of connectivity to payment rails (Faster Payments in the UK, SEPA in Europe). It offers these capabilities as an internal platform to the rest of the organization, enabling upstream teams to build exciting new products tackling use cases that require banking capabilities. Our current focus is on expansion and quality: We want to plug into more payment rails, adding support for new currencies and covering more geographies We need to support existing and new customers, honouring our 99.9% availability SLA in the face of rapidly increasing volumes It is an exciting and challenging journey - we are looking to hire you, a Principal Engineer, to help us along the way. Our challenges: We want to continuously iterate and improve our offering without compromising the stability or long-term maintainability of our systems. We serve millions of API requests with a 99.9% availability SLA. Our platform must remain a reliable foundation that our customers can build upon as we expand (new products, new geographies, more volume) We want TrueLayer to be an exceptional place to work. We want our processes and interactions to stay honest, genuine and human as the company grows We want our engineers to grow with us. To have the opportunity, the guidance and the support to develop their technical and core skills to the fullest within the organisation. We want to reduce the coupling between our product teams, enabling fast iteration cycles What we expect from you as a Principal Engineer: Foster a collaborative environment between engineering teams, in order to maximise cross-functional project outcomes Understand the business needs to anticipate technical challenges and assess the long-term impact of today's technical decisions Maintain a bird-eye view of what is happening across the Engineering organisation, share it with the engineering teams helping them to situate their efforts within the bigger picture Embody and promote our Engineering Principles and best practices to ensure excellent quality products and services Partner with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads and other Principal Engineers to lead the technical side of complex cross-team projects Stay current with current trends to assist teams in experimenting/adopting new technology where appropriate Build consensus and excitement around a long-term vision for our platform, based on our business ambitions and our current key challenges Nurture and support our engineers, via mentorship and sponsorship Requirements: Acute knowledge of the observability story and how to apply it in a Docker-ised distributed system In-depth understanding of common architectural patterns and their trade-offs Strong security focus, advocate of best practices and experience with platform vulnerability management Ability to work in a fast evolving engineering organization and positively influence engineers and Leads Experience working in a product-centric environment, with a focus on delivery and engineering excellence We'd be particularly excited if you can demonstrate: Experience working on highly available mission-critical systems (telecommunication systems, payment processing, etc.) Experience working in a highly regulated sector In-depth expertise working with relational/non-relational DBs at scale In-depth expertise working with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka) in an event-driven architecture A holistic approach to designing and optimising socio-technical systems - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company Flexible hours and hybrid working - work from home and our incredible offices in London Milan Sydney and Dublin A £150 remote-working budget to help you set up your home office Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure Enhanced pension contribution at 4%&4% Private health insurance from the day you start 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year(on top of the holiday allowance) Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill £1,000to spend on learning & development each year £500 per quarter(outside of required business travel) to visit our hub cities around the world Inclusion & Diversity At TrueLayer, we don't just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. So we want you to know that the things that make you, you - like your age, ability, background and identity - are things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe in what you do (And know what an API is). Our Hiring process typically consists of four stages: A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners A take home exercise [ Principal Engineer Challenge ] 1 hour 45 minute system design interview and technical presentation 2 hour 15 minute final interview RustRust, API Security, Software Architecture
Dec 03, 2021
Full time
At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone - so we've made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at people's fingertips. The Core Banking group operates TrueLayer's payment ledgers and it is in charge of connectivity to payment rails (Faster Payments in the UK, SEPA in Europe). It offers these capabilities as an internal platform to the rest of the organization, enabling upstream teams to build exciting new products tackling use cases that require banking capabilities. Our current focus is on expansion and quality: We want to plug into more payment rails, adding support for new currencies and covering more geographies We need to support existing and new customers, honouring our 99.9% availability SLA in the face of rapidly increasing volumes It is an exciting and challenging journey - we are looking to hire you, a Principal Engineer, to help us along the way. Our challenges: We want to continuously iterate and improve our offering without compromising the stability or long-term maintainability of our systems. We serve millions of API requests with a 99.9% availability SLA. Our platform must remain a reliable foundation that our customers can build upon as we expand (new products, new geographies, more volume) We want TrueLayer to be an exceptional place to work. We want our processes and interactions to stay honest, genuine and human as the company grows We want our engineers to grow with us. To have the opportunity, the guidance and the support to develop their technical and core skills to the fullest within the organisation. We want to reduce the coupling between our product teams, enabling fast iteration cycles What we expect from you as a Principal Engineer: Foster a collaborative environment between engineering teams, in order to maximise cross-functional project outcomes Understand the business needs to anticipate technical challenges and assess the long-term impact of today's technical decisions Maintain a bird-eye view of what is happening across the Engineering organisation, share it with the engineering teams helping them to situate their efforts within the bigger picture Embody and promote our Engineering Principles and best practices to ensure excellent quality products and services Partner with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads and other Principal Engineers to lead the technical side of complex cross-team projects Stay current with current trends to assist teams in experimenting/adopting new technology where appropriate Build consensus and excitement around a long-term vision for our platform, based on our business ambitions and our current key challenges Nurture and support our engineers, via mentorship and sponsorship Requirements: Acute knowledge of the observability story and how to apply it in a Docker-ised distributed system In-depth understanding of common architectural patterns and their trade-offs Strong security focus, advocate of best practices and experience with platform vulnerability management Ability to work in a fast evolving engineering organization and positively influence engineers and Leads Experience working in a product-centric environment, with a focus on delivery and engineering excellence We'd be particularly excited if you can demonstrate: Experience working on highly available mission-critical systems (telecommunication systems, payment processing, etc.) Experience working in a highly regulated sector In-depth expertise working with relational/non-relational DBs at scale In-depth expertise working with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka) in an event-driven architecture A holistic approach to designing and optimising socio-technical systems - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company Flexible hours and hybrid working - work from home and our incredible offices in London Milan Sydney and Dublin A £150 remote-working budget to help you set up your home office Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure Enhanced pension contribution at 4%&4% Private health insurance from the day you start 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year(on top of the holiday allowance) Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill £1,000to spend on learning & development each year £500 per quarter(outside of required business travel) to visit our hub cities around the world Inclusion & Diversity At TrueLayer, we don't just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. So we want you to know that the things that make you, you - like your age, ability, background and identity - are things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe in what you do (And know what an API is). Our Hiring process typically consists of four stages: A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners A take home exercise [ Principal Engineer Challenge ] 1 hour 45 minute system design interview and technical presentation 2 hour 15 minute final interview RustRust, API Security, Software Architecture
At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone - so we've made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at people's fingertips. The Pay By Bank group is responsible for the systems that power our global open banking payments platform. As we continue to expand we want to build solutions that provide the best possible experience for our customers in every country we enter. In addition to this we need to keep supporting existing and new customers, honouring our 99.9% availability SLA in the face of higher and higher request volumes. It is an exciting and challenging journey - we are looking to hire you, a Principal Engineer, to help us along the way. Our challenges: We want to continuously iterate and improve our offering without compromising the stability or long-term maintainability of our systems We serve millions of API requests with a 99.9% availability SLA. Our platform must remain a reliable foundation that our customers can build upon as we expand (new products, new geographies, more volume) We want TrueLayer to be an exceptional place to work. We want our processes and interactions to stay honest, genuine and human as the company grows We want our engineers to grow with us. To have the opportunity, the guidance and the support to develop their technical and core skills to the fullest within the organisation We want to reduce the coupling between our product teams, enabling fast iteration cycles What we expect from you as a Principal Engineer: Foster a collaborative environment between engineering teams, in order to maximise cross-functional project outcomes Understand the business needs to anticipate technical challenges and assess the long-term impact of today's technical decisions Maintain a bird-eye view of what is happening across the Engineering organisation, share it with the engineering teams helping them to situate their efforts within the bigger picture Embody and promote our Engineering Principles and best practices to ensure excellent quality products and services Partner with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads and other Principal Engineers to lead the technical side of complex cross-team projects Stay current with current trends to assist teams in experimenting/adopting new technology where appropriate Build consensus and excitement around a long-term vision for our platform, based on our business ambitions and our current key challenges Nurture and support our engineers, via mentorship and sponsorship Requirements: Acute knowledge of the observability story and how to apply it in a Docker-ised distributed system In-depth understanding of common architectural patterns and their trade-offs Strong security focus, advocate of best practices and experience with platform vulnerability management Ability to work in a fast evolving engineering organization and positively influence engineers and Leads Experience working in a product-centric environment, with a focus on delivery and engineering excellence We'd be particularly excited if you can demonstrate: Knowledge of designing, building or operating Data-intensive systems In-depth expertise working with relational/non-relational DBs at scale In-depth expertise working with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka) in an event-driven architecture A holistic approach to designing and optimising socio-technical systems - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company Flexible hours and hybrid working - work from home and our incredible offices in London Milan Sydney and Dublin A £150 remote-working budget to help you set up your home office Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure Enhanced pension contribution at 4%&4% Private health insurance from the day you start 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year(on top of the holiday allowance) Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill £1,000to spend on learning & development each year £500 per quarter(outside of required business travel) to visit our hub cities around the world Inclusion & Diversity At TrueLayer, we don't just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. So we want you to know that the things that make you, you - like your age, ability, background and identity - are things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe in what you do (And know what an API is). Our Hiring process typically consists of four stages: A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners A take home exercise [ Principal Engineer Challenge ] 1 hour 45 minute system design interview and technical presentation 2 hour 15 minute final interview API Security, Software Architecture, AWS.NET
Dec 03, 2021
Full time
At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone - so we've made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at people's fingertips. The Pay By Bank group is responsible for the systems that power our global open banking payments platform. As we continue to expand we want to build solutions that provide the best possible experience for our customers in every country we enter. In addition to this we need to keep supporting existing and new customers, honouring our 99.9% availability SLA in the face of higher and higher request volumes. It is an exciting and challenging journey - we are looking to hire you, a Principal Engineer, to help us along the way. Our challenges: We want to continuously iterate and improve our offering without compromising the stability or long-term maintainability of our systems We serve millions of API requests with a 99.9% availability SLA. Our platform must remain a reliable foundation that our customers can build upon as we expand (new products, new geographies, more volume) We want TrueLayer to be an exceptional place to work. We want our processes and interactions to stay honest, genuine and human as the company grows We want our engineers to grow with us. To have the opportunity, the guidance and the support to develop their technical and core skills to the fullest within the organisation We want to reduce the coupling between our product teams, enabling fast iteration cycles What we expect from you as a Principal Engineer: Foster a collaborative environment between engineering teams, in order to maximise cross-functional project outcomes Understand the business needs to anticipate technical challenges and assess the long-term impact of today's technical decisions Maintain a bird-eye view of what is happening across the Engineering organisation, share it with the engineering teams helping them to situate their efforts within the bigger picture Embody and promote our Engineering Principles and best practices to ensure excellent quality products and services Partner with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads and other Principal Engineers to lead the technical side of complex cross-team projects Stay current with current trends to assist teams in experimenting/adopting new technology where appropriate Build consensus and excitement around a long-term vision for our platform, based on our business ambitions and our current key challenges Nurture and support our engineers, via mentorship and sponsorship Requirements: Acute knowledge of the observability story and how to apply it in a Docker-ised distributed system In-depth understanding of common architectural patterns and their trade-offs Strong security focus, advocate of best practices and experience with platform vulnerability management Ability to work in a fast evolving engineering organization and positively influence engineers and Leads Experience working in a product-centric environment, with a focus on delivery and engineering excellence We'd be particularly excited if you can demonstrate: Knowledge of designing, building or operating Data-intensive systems In-depth expertise working with relational/non-relational DBs at scale In-depth expertise working with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka) in an event-driven architecture A holistic approach to designing and optimising socio-technical systems - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company Flexible hours and hybrid working - work from home and our incredible offices in London Milan Sydney and Dublin A £150 remote-working budget to help you set up your home office Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure Enhanced pension contribution at 4%&4% Private health insurance from the day you start 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year(on top of the holiday allowance) Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill £1,000to spend on learning & development each year £500 per quarter(outside of required business travel) to visit our hub cities around the world Inclusion & Diversity At TrueLayer, we don't just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. So we want you to know that the things that make you, you - like your age, ability, background and identity - are things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe in what you do (And know what an API is). Our Hiring process typically consists of four stages: A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners A take home exercise [ Principal Engineer Challenge ] 1 hour 45 minute system design interview and technical presentation 2 hour 15 minute final interview API Security, Software Architecture, AWS.NET
Who we're looking for We are looking for a seasoned and highly technical cloud engineer to come and join our Enterprise Cloud team and be part of the multi-year cloud transformation program that we have embarked upon. We require someone who has in-depth experience of engineering and integrating cloud platforms and services, someone who has development expertise who has a deep understanding of cloud best practices, industry trends, modern technologies and new ways of working. About Schroders We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper. The base You will be part of the Global Technology team and will be based in London. The team You will be part of the Enterprise Cloud team that is comprised of two functions, the Cloud Centre of Excellence covering Azure and AWS Platform SRE, cloud platform SRE, classic hosting SRE, cloud enablement, cloud architecture and cloud strategy as well as the Cloud Business Office who cover cloud programme management, training & knowledge management, FinOps, MI Reporting and Governance. You will be a Cloud Developer who has responsibility for building an Enterprise Cloud Portal based on open source and cloud technologies that provides self service capabilities to different personas across the organisation. The Enterprise Cloud Portal spans across both Azure and AWS. You will be part of a team who strive to provide a great user experience to the Schroders development and business community who consume cloud services. You will join a highly technical team who are solely focused on building a leading-edge cloud service who are integral to a successful cloud adoption and migration programme over the next 3 years. What you'll do • Lead Developer for the Enterprise Cloud Portal • Work with colleagues across various technology teams to understand use case requirements and build the portal roadmap • Develop the Enterprise Cloud Portal in an iterative way • Develop a product with scalability, fault tolerance, resiliency, security, observability, and simplicity in mind • Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation • Identify, triage, and constantly automate and evolve the platform by pushing for change that improves reliability, operability and developer experience • Every week solve exciting new challenges with an amazing team and technology stack • Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity • Engineer solutions that are fully automated and integrated in the CI/CD toolchain The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need • Experience in software development and software development lifecycle practices • Experience with DevOps methodologies and tooling (Azure ADO, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes) • Experience with modern engineering and agile practices as well as shift left CI/CD • Experienced with the following programming languages, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Python • A good understanding of web UI technologies • Strong Database development knowledge with MS-SQL/PostgreSQL • Passionate about building and delivering services via APIs and/or microservices • Experience of developing user/customer portals • Experienced of developing products on Public Cloud and using Cloud services • Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, infrastructure, data scientists, and subject matter experts • Solid interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to self-manage The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help • University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline • Cloud certifications for at least Azure or AWS • Understanding of broader cloud ecosystem including Cloud Computing Technologies, business drivers and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies and trends. • An understanding of backstage.io • Understanding of Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud • Understanding Cloud Service capabilities and relative strengths (AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali) • Experience of Power BI, Azure Power Platform What you'll be like • A passionate technologist • An engineer who has the hunger and desire to learn new technologies • An advocate of cloud, cloud adoption and cloud transformation • Someone who embraces collaboration and change We're looking for the best, whoever they are Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.
Nov 30, 2021
Full time
Who we're looking for We are looking for a seasoned and highly technical cloud engineer to come and join our Enterprise Cloud team and be part of the multi-year cloud transformation program that we have embarked upon. We require someone who has in-depth experience of engineering and integrating cloud platforms and services, someone who has development expertise who has a deep understanding of cloud best practices, industry trends, modern technologies and new ways of working. About Schroders We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper. The base You will be part of the Global Technology team and will be based in London. The team You will be part of the Enterprise Cloud team that is comprised of two functions, the Cloud Centre of Excellence covering Azure and AWS Platform SRE, cloud platform SRE, classic hosting SRE, cloud enablement, cloud architecture and cloud strategy as well as the Cloud Business Office who cover cloud programme management, training & knowledge management, FinOps, MI Reporting and Governance. You will be a Cloud Developer who has responsibility for building an Enterprise Cloud Portal based on open source and cloud technologies that provides self service capabilities to different personas across the organisation. The Enterprise Cloud Portal spans across both Azure and AWS. You will be part of a team who strive to provide a great user experience to the Schroders development and business community who consume cloud services. You will join a highly technical team who are solely focused on building a leading-edge cloud service who are integral to a successful cloud adoption and migration programme over the next 3 years. What you'll do • Lead Developer for the Enterprise Cloud Portal • Work with colleagues across various technology teams to understand use case requirements and build the portal roadmap • Develop the Enterprise Cloud Portal in an iterative way • Develop a product with scalability, fault tolerance, resiliency, security, observability, and simplicity in mind • Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation • Identify, triage, and constantly automate and evolve the platform by pushing for change that improves reliability, operability and developer experience • Every week solve exciting new challenges with an amazing team and technology stack • Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity • Engineer solutions that are fully automated and integrated in the CI/CD toolchain The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need • Experience in software development and software development lifecycle practices • Experience with DevOps methodologies and tooling (Azure ADO, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes) • Experience with modern engineering and agile practices as well as shift left CI/CD • Experienced with the following programming languages, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Python • A good understanding of web UI technologies • Strong Database development knowledge with MS-SQL/PostgreSQL • Passionate about building and delivering services via APIs and/or microservices • Experience of developing user/customer portals • Experienced of developing products on Public Cloud and using Cloud services • Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, infrastructure, data scientists, and subject matter experts • Solid interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to self-manage The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help • University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline • Cloud certifications for at least Azure or AWS • Understanding of broader cloud ecosystem including Cloud Computing Technologies, business drivers and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies and trends. • An understanding of backstage.io • Understanding of Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud • Understanding Cloud Service capabilities and relative strengths (AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali) • Experience of Power BI, Azure Power Platform What you'll be like • A passionate technologist • An engineer who has the hunger and desire to learn new technologies • An advocate of cloud, cloud adoption and cloud transformation • Someone who embraces collaboration and change We're looking for the best, whoever they are Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.