Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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 that allows advisors to manage client investments through their smartphones. As an engineer, you will design, manage, and extend infrastructure as code, monitor environments, and harden infrastructure. You will also work with various technologies, including Go, Typescript, and Flutter, and collaborate within a distributed team. We value automation, continuous improvement, and a collaborative work environment. Apply now to advance your career!

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
• CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab)
• Cloud infrastructure (we use Google Cloud Platform)
• Containers (building, operations, security, and orchestration; we use Kubernetes)
• Go (we can offer training for experienced engineers who haven’t used Go before)
• Experience of penetration testing and audit
• Infrastructure as Code (we use Terraform and Terragrunt)
• Networking (layer 4 and 7 load balancing, DNS, mTLS)
• Observability systems (we're particularly interested in Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry)
• PKI (particularly Vault)
• Scripting (we predominantly use Bash and Go)
• PostgreSQL

Benefits

• Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a 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 SimplyHealth
• 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 development 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: At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues