Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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AJ Bell

πŸ“Remote - United Kingdom

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Summary

Join the Touch team at AJ Bell, a fast-growing investment platform company, and contribute to the development of a next-generation investment platform. We are building a mobile-first investment app to improve how consumers access financial advice and manage investments. As an engineer, you will design, manage, and extend infrastructure as code, monitor environments, and harden infrastructure. You will also work with various technologies like Go, Typescript, and Flutter. The role requires excellent programming and problem-solving skills and experience with creating performant, scalable, and secure infrastructure. We offer a hybrid working model and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

  • Excellent programming and problem solving skills
  • Understanding of relevant software design patterns and paradigms, such as microservices, containers/orchestration or event-driven architecture
  • Experience in creating performant, scalable, secure and well tested infrastructure
  • You take ownership of tasks and problems, clearing roadblocks and pulling in other people to help when needed

Responsibilities

  • Design, manage and extend Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Monitor environments for performance, errors and security, catching issues before customers even notice. Focus on low levels of toil by improving tooling and processes
  • Infrastructure hardening including resolutions from pen tests, audit and other third-party testing of our estate
  • Make changes to Go, Typescript or Flutter code to support infrastructure changes
  • Work as part of a distributed team made up of self-motivated and collaborative individuals. Much of our communication is remote and async so good communication skills are key
  • Always look for ways we can improve our product, processes and practices. We don’t like friction and waste
  • Automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment. We are huge proponents of automation
  • Work outside of your specialism when needed. While all our team members have a specialism, we don’t let that restrain us. Our engineers jump in to help get things done even in technologies out of their core competency

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with Investment or Pensions platforms

Benefits

  • Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
  • Holiday buy and sell scheme
  • A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Annual free share awards scheme
  • Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
  • Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
  • Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
  • Free gym membership
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Bike loan scheme
  • Sick pay+ pledge
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
  • Loans for travel season tickets
  • Death in service scheme
  • Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
  • Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
  • Paid time off for volunteer work
  • Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
  • Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
  • Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
  • Ongoing technical training
  • Professional qualification support
  • Talent management programmes
  • Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
  • Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
  • Casual dress code
  • Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
  • Hybrid working

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