Platform Engineer (AWS)

at  Slyp

Platform Engineer (AWS)
Step into the future with Slyp and be a part of revolutionising the transaction experience. As Australia’s first-ever independent Fintech backed by all four major Australian Banks, we’re leading the way in transaction enrichment innovation. Our multi award-winning tech platform has transformed the buying experience by seamlessly embedding digital receipts, loyalty, and rewards into the payment process. We exist to create a unique, everybody-wins value for merchants and their consumers. While we are currently expanding and evolving our products set, our platform is already used by some of the largest merchants in the market including Kmart, Country Road, Chemist Warehouse, and hundreds more.
Founded by former PayPal executives, the Slyp “village” has attracted top-notch talent from around the globe. Our inclusive environment allows Slypster’s to unleash their creativity and drive, all while being part of a movement that’s shaking things up for the better.

REQUIREMENTS

• Strong experience as a generalist Platform Engineer with broad technical skills across Cloud platforms, Networking, Security and Storage.
• You have a deep knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services such as CloudFormation, ELB / ALB, API Gateway, Kinesis, Lambda, ElasticCache, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, Aurora and S3.
• You are skilled at automation and infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Experience in containerisation especially around Kubernetes and EKS/ECS.
• Experience with supporting microservices at scale with high reliability and resilience.
• Experience using a variety of databases including Aurora(PostgreSQL) and DynamoDB.
• Practical experience in cloud software engineering and best practices with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability and incident management.

• Contribute to the team’s rhythm, culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Solve challenging product and engineering problems pragmatically, elegantly and simply.
• Engaging with the engineering group in code reviews, planning, architecture, design and infrastructure discussions.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to improve engineering tools, procedures, and data security.
• Improve the use of automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) to help reduce the operational time required to get changes to production.
• Conduct system testing around platform / infrastructure security, performance, and availability.
• Contributing to the on-going maintenance and support of the platform.