Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Description

Our purpose is to make great financial decision making a breeze for everyone, and that purpose drives us every day.
It's why we're on a mission to create an automated quoting engine, with the simplest of experiences, wrapped in a brand everyone loves!
We change lives by making it simple to switch and save money. So, when it comes to getting a better deal, it's never been more blindingly obvious why you would choose Compare the Market.

We'd love you to be part of our journey.
We need to build a world-class, self-service platform. This means you'll be working with smart people who really make things happen! With an ambitious and progressive approach to engineering, this environment allows you to influence vision, direction, and technology strategy.
Your role will be pivotal in designing and building products that enable our engineers to deploy, run, and observe the services powering our brand. As an Engineer, you'll collaborate on solving problems, write code, leverage open-source and managed products, optimize, and iterate your architecture as it travels from laptop to production. You'll participate in team reflections and ceremonies to ensure continuous learning, improvement, and development of ourselves and our products.

The team's products are primarily built in AWS, and our primary tools are Terraform, Git, Linux, and code - typically Python or Go.

Our roles are aligned to specific pillars and skillsets, including:

• Cloud Enablement: AWS, Terraform, Linux, Python, Core AWS Services, Networking, Cloudflare, AWS Governance tools (ControlTower, AFT, etc.)
• Defence: AWS, Terraform, Linux, Python, Core AWS Services, Networking, Cloudflare, Packer
• Reliability: Docker, Node.js, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, SRE
• Platform Experience: Kubernetes, Helm, CICD, GitLab, Docker, Node.js
• Cloud Database: MongoDB, Kafka, RDS, Data Loss Prevention tools

Everyone is welcome.
We foster a culture of creativity. We approach our work passionately, improve constantly, and celebrate our wins at every turn. We are an inclusive workplace where employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. Everyone is welcome. Be you.
We're excited to hear from people with a range of skills, experiences, and ideas. You don't need to tick all the boxes, but we'd love to hear what makes you great for this role.

Some of the great things you'll be doing:

• Work with your colleagues to iteratively build, run, and own products
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions; work with junior team members to develop your soft skills and their hard skills
• Identify opportunities to leverage automation and code that eliminate toil
• Learn and develop your abilities in coding, architecture, and engineering practices for the cloud

What we want to see from you:

• Ability to build and deploy solutions for testable and repeatable secure cloud infrastructure
• Ability to design complete, secure, and observable solutions that enable our developers to self-serve
• Strong experience with core cloud technologies such as AWS & Terraform
• Experience in a role aligned with DevOps & SRE patterns and delivery of cloud solutions that follow them
• Knowledge of core Linux, Networking, and Internet principles that underpin everything you do
• A willingness to generate new ideas, experiment, fail, learn, develop, and share knowledge with peers
• A desire to contribute to internal and community open-source projects

Our people bring our purpose to life.
We foster a culture of innovation and collaboration. With over 300 tech experts, we thrive on using the latest tools and technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Java, Scala, Python, .Net Core, Node.js, and MongoDB, to create a dynamic and inclusive work environment.

There's something for everyone.
We're a place of opportunity. You'll have the tools and autonomy to drive your own career, supported by a talented team.
Our benefits include a competitive salary, hybrid working, a generous holiday allowance, private healthcare, an electric car scheme, and paid development, wellbeing, and CSR days.

Primary Location

United Kingdom

Other Locations

United Kingdom

Work Locations

London - Shoreditch White Collar Factory, 1 Old Street Yard, Shoreditch, London EC1Y 8AF