Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

We're all about flexibility, community and a healthy work-life balance. Our hybrid model offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office working. To support this, the successful applicant should be within a reasonably commutable distance to our office (Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB). Join the EVolution: Your main gig? Managing Aurora Clusters, optimizing data storage, and overseeing the computing infrastructure with Lambdas and Fargate Services, for scalability and streamlined monitoring. You'll handle Terraform workspaces, supporting software teams to enhance platform understanding and improve visibility, security, scalability and reliability. Equipped with tools from Control Tower to CloudWatch, you'll automate processes with EventBridge, Step Functions and more to elevate our systems. Collaborate closely with a Tech Lead, experienced Cloud Engineers and Agile Delivery Manager to foster engineering excellence and a Software Engineering Manager guiding your career aspirations. You will be part of the team responsible for:

• Introducing new patterns for the cloud platform and how we use it, providing standardised solutions across services and environments for the development teams, to follow best practices in management, monitoring, scalability, resilience and sustainability - building from the ground up a brand-new platform to replace our legacy infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code - Creating and maintaining modules to support advanced configuration and facilitate best practices; we use Terraform and Terraform Enterprise!
• Support - Providing guidance to the engineers responsible for our applications and APIs; we help by assisting in their IaC and CI/CD, building new tools to facilitate and automate tasks and systems maintenance, by advising them on current work and any improvements in the existing infrastructure.
• Monitoring - Keeping an eye in our company's systems and identifying risks and maintenance requirements, help teams prioritizing related tasks!
• Standardisation - Work towards and promote the implementation of the latest quality, security standards and best practices across all domains and teams.
• Automation - Build and maintain tools and systems to automate and ease the execution of tasks.
• Upskilling - by learning and teaching; master the services we use, and help the teams by pairing up, mentoring and coaching colleagues. We participate in learning days and do show & tells., Our new and existing architecture grant us the opportunity to make extensive use of different service in AWS, from the old-timers S3 and SQS, the classics API Gateway, RDS, Fargate, to the younger Serverless solutions like Step Functions and many others. Our CI/CD runs on GitHub Actions and similar in AWS.
  
  Has at least 4 years' experience with AWS and certification matching the experience level.
• Some of our software also make use of some GCP services - experience and certification is a plus.
• Loves writing and maintaining modules for IaC configuration and modules - Terraform.
• Passion for CI/CD - writing and maintaining GitHub Actions modules, build solutions and integrations using GHA and AWS services (YAML, Python, Java/TypeScript, etc.)
• Has experience on building up and using logging, monitoring and alerting solutions for multiple software applications that run on different AWS services
• Understands the challenges of migrating a legacy solution to a brand-new infrastructure
• Wants to replace day to day tasks with automated solutions
• Understands data structures and data warehousing
• Understands the value of DevOps principles and best practices, with a focus on Security and Sustainability.
• Capable of designing and building scalable and resilient systems.
• Reviewing existing solutions, suggest and justify improvements.
• Has experience with containers.
• Has experience with serverless solutions.
• Enjoys working in a team, recognises the value of collaboration - doing code reviews, pair and mob programming and providing constructive feedback.
• Takes a pragmatic approach to problem-solving, considering best practices and tasks value.
• Applies software engineering best practices and processes, from architecture to planning and development; familiar with SDLC and agile methodologies.
• Identifying and contributing to the definition of tasks, considering business goals, teams skill sets and best practices.
We use AWS Cloud and (to a limited degree) GCP - experience with the following services is desirable: Control Tower, AWS IAM and STS, Amazon VPC, Aurora RDS, ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, WAF, Step Functions, Event Bridge, and others

Leading the way in electric vehicle charging, we've been at the forefront of adoption in the UK since 2009. With over 240,000 charge points installed so far, out of a total of 1 million in the UK, we make EV ownership simple and affordable. Partnering with top automotive brands like Mercedes, Jaguar Land Rover, BMW and Kia, as well as energy leaders such as EDF and Centrica, we've earned accolades such as the 'Which? - Trusted Trader' award and 'Best for Value, Home EV Chargers - What Car?' With our international expansion, we aim to transform the EV charging landscape not just in the UK, but now across Europe. Our ways of working, Pod Point is the UK's leading electric vehicle (EV) charging provider. Since 2009, we've provided over 240,000 chargepoints, leading the UK's transition to electric cars and making EV ownership easy and affordable for everyone. We're partnering with automotive giants like Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover and BMW, as well as energy leaders Centrica and EDF. Our focus includes innovative ventures like advanced smart charging solutions and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). Additionally, we collaborate with Taylor Wimpey, Redrow and Barratt Developments to establish EV charging infrastructure in new homes. Oh, and did we mention that we proudly hold the "Which? Trusted Trader" stamp, and in a recent "What Car?" survey we earned the title of the top-rated home charger provider. Quick service, high satisfaction - that's Pod Point for you! Excited? So are we! Apply now. Superstars, we make room for you!


• Flexible hybrid working model
• Work abroad for up to 20 days per year
• Salary Sacrifice EV Scheme and free Pod Point
• Family & friend discount scheme
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
• Very generous parental and family leave
• Pension scheme with a 4.5% matched contribution
• Eyecare scheme
• Life insurance covering up to 4x your annual salary
• Virtual GP provided by HealthHero
• Employee Assistance Program