Platform Engineer

at  Capital on Tap

Running a business is hard, we make it easier. We provide an all-in-one business credit card & spend management platform, built for SMEs. Over 200,000 small businesses have spent more than £10 billion on their Capital on Tap Business Credit Cards.

THE ROLE

As a Platform Engineer, you will constantly examine the entire software development lifecycle from source to production. Collaborate with internal teams to build a workflow that enables our software engineers to code and ship software rapidly.
Your aim as a Platform Engineer is to help Capital On Tap advance its platform and processes to elevate the user experience. This will be done by investigating, testing, and designing improvements and changes to keep the platform and infrastructure up-to-date and in accordance with industry standards.
You will also be tasked with reducing the cognitive load, toil, and repetitive manual work a Software Engineer goes through by building and maintaining key internal developer platforms that can be used in a self-service manner.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide support to multiple teams across the business function (Data Science, Data Engineering, Security, Development and QA).
• Build new and manage existing Azure services and resources with a focus on performance, security, scalability and resiliency in mind.
• Proactively support Platform services and tooling (TeamCity, Octopus, Azure DevOps & more to come).
• Create and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Pulumi.
• Advise internal teams on infrastructure best practices (HA), container orchestration, monitoring and cloud security.
• Help evolve our CI/CD processes to include code quality testing, security scanning, load testing and infrastructure validations.
• Staying abreast of industry movements and best practices.