Staff Platform Engineer - Tempcover

at  RVU

WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOU

Ideally your technical background will include:

• Automation using an IaC approach
• CI/CD
• Dev Ops and continuous improvement
• Experience in developed or architected secure environments, pipelines software
• API Gateways, DNS and load-balancing for a micro service architecture (preferably using CloudFlare)
• Operating high load consumer-facing websites
• Site reliability engineering
• IaaS and PaaS platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud provider design principles, like AWS and Azureʼs Well- Architected frameworks
• Experience using scripting, and ideally programming with languages such as Go and C#

We are looking for someone who can also demonstrate:

• Using data to drive decision making
• Demonstrable experience of taking the lead in solving business problems
• Industry experience in implementing platform engineering approaches, and offering services to internal customers
• Willingness to learn and passion to keep yourself at the forefront of technology delivery
• Experience being part of a cross functional agile team, working together to solve problems and deliver outcomes
• Experience in leading a team of engineers, mentoring them and helping them grow in their careers

THE ROLE

Tempcover is currently undertaking an overhaul of its systems to modernise and help us power the next generation of our technology. We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who can bring a depth of experience to help shape this journey; working in a role with a high level of ownership, empowerment and impact.
Each Engineer plays an integral role in the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of our insurance-based systems, both public-facing and internal. The platform engineering team enables our engineers to quickly build and run safe, secure and cost effective systems in our public cloud.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• As a Staff Platform Engineer you’ll be working as part of an agile team that provides services and tools to our internal engineering teams
• Suggest and drive change across the engineering team and both challenge and improve existing practices and systems
• Mentor and coach other engineers; helping them grow whilst fostering a strong engineering culture
• You’ll be introducing new technologies and approaches, and play a key role in the technical direction that platform engineering at Tempcover should take, while providing support and maintenance of existing platforms
• Helping drive and shape a greenfield project to rebuild our cloud infrastructure - moving from Azure to AWS