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Senior Platform Engineer
Remote (UK) - Permanent/Full Time
About BR-DGE
BR-DGE is an award winning FinTech founded in Edinburgh. Our platform enables e-commerce and technology businesses to have the freedom and flexibility to redefine the way they handle payments.
Since our inception in 2018 we have been leading the way in the future of payment orchestration. Our products enable enterprise businesses to optimise their payment infrastructure and create frictionless digital payment experiences for their end users. Now with a global reach, our customer base is made up of incredible brands and household names from across the travel, retail and gambling sectors and it’s growing fast! Our world class partners include Visa and Worldpay and we’re continuing to build a strong partner network with the biggest players in the payments industry. It’s an exciting time to be part of BR-DGE!
The journey so far has been incredible, but we’re just getting started and with ambitious growth plans, we’re now looking for more exceptional talent to join our team.
All BR-DGE Builders receive the following benefits:
Flexible and remote working
Remote working allowance
33 days holiday including public holidays
Your birthday as a day off
Family healthcare
Life insurance
Employee assistance programme
A culture that champions rapid career progression
Investment in your learning and development
Regular team events & socials
Become a BR-DGE Builder
About the Role
Our Platform team provides a stable, highly available, easy to use platform for our customers and application engineers with well-designed systems and solutions they need to build, deploy and run their workloads. We look for engineers with a passion for performance and reliability, and who enjoy taking projects from conception to production, whilst considering scale, resiliency and FinOps.
Our multi-region tech stack currently includes OKD, ArgoCD, Opensearch, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Couchbase and AWS. We are currently migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and have more planned!
As we deploy production services, we operate on-call rotations to ensure the health of the system. Everyone at BR-DGE uses our products in their day-to-day, so being on call is an important way to understand our system and how people use our products.
What you'll be doing:
- Maintaining and operating our multi-region container orchestration platform (OKD) and supporting services including logging, monitoring and CI/CD
- Working with terraform, ansible and bash to manage our systems
- Designing and implementing project requirements
- Collaborating with project stakeholders, disambiguating requirements and finding pragmatic solutions
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of everything we do, both team process and what we deliver
- Regular patching, updates and maintaining secure systems
- Participating in out-of-hours, in-hours and incident management processes
- Utilising FinOps practices in all you do
What we're looking for:
- OKD or Openshift, or general Kubernetes administration experience
- Experienced with infrastructure as code with common languages, tooling and working knowledge of Linux
- History working with clustered, highly available and fault-tolerant systems
- Applied experience with AWS
- Bash experience
- Agile workplace experience
- A strong relationship builder who will challenge and collaborate internally and externally
What would be great to have:
- OKD and EKS experience
- Working experience with Digital Ocean and Azure
- Terraform, golang, Ansible
What we offer:
- Salary up to £75k per annum (dependent on experience)
- Remote working allowance
- 33 days holiday including public holidays
- Birthday off
- Flexible and remote working
- Family healthcare
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- A culture that champions rapid career progression
- Investment in your learning and development
- Regular team events & socials