Golang Job: AWS Engineer

We are working with a growing tech business looking for an experienced UK or European based AWS Engineer to help build and improve their rapidly growing and evolving infrastructure. Their infrastructure is built inside AWS, and they work closely with their customers’ own tech teams to ensure our integrations with their technology stacks are robust.

What the role entails

Working with developers to spec out and build out solutions to cater to new features. A recent example was deploying Kinesis to gather streaming data from 7 AWS regions, which is then aggregated and stored centrally.

Iterative improvements and refinements to what they have. Performance and resilience are absolutely critical, and there is still plenty of scope for further improvements here. They are looking for someone not just to make the improvements, but to ideate them and drive them forward.

In the late stage of the sales cycle, we typically have a couple of rounds of integration calls with prospective customers to work out what challenges they might face, and help them understand what deployment looks like.

They have customers using Akamai, CloudFlare, Fastly, CloudFront and more as CDNs, and with a wide variety of backend technologies.

After you have bedded in you will join the on call rota. In the last few months there has been one call a month, and these are often in work hours.

Preferred skills /experience

We’d love to talk to anyone who ticks most of the following - note that you do not need to have deep experience in all of these areas to apply:

• Strong AWS experience and knowledge
• Experience with architecting cloud solutions
• In-depth understanding of HTTP & networking; for our proxy layer it is important to understand this well
• A strong communicator who can explain technical concepts clearly, the role involves speaking with customers regularly
• Enjoys getting things right whilst realising that done is better than perfect
• Enjoys learning new things
• Self-directed and self-motivated
• Exposure to various CDNs is useful, but not essential.
• Prometheus (with Thanos/Cortex) experience is helpful.
• Background in DevOps or Site Reliability (probably 4+ years)

Technologies they currently use:

• AWS: EC2, ECS, RDS, ELB, NAT Gateway, Route53, CloudFormation, Kinesis, S3, KMS, Fargate, Batch, CodePipeline & more
• Python in places for controlling orchestration
• Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana
• Proxy layer is homegrown in Golang
• The web app is Django + React

What they offer:

• Remote & flexible working - however you work best
• Choice of M2 MacBook and second monitor
• £600 'happiness' budget each year that you can use to make you happier or more productive at work such as a new flashy monitor, a new office chair, or training
• A Kindle with some books preloaded
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
• BUPA employee healthcare and life insurance
• Equal parental pay & leave for both parents
• Enhanced parental pay (100% for 6 weeks, 50% for 6 weeks, 25% for 13 weeks)
• 5% pension matching
• Subsidised gym membership

Location Flexibility

We are looking for applications from UK and Europe -based candidates who wish to work primarily remotely within reach of occasional travel to London. There will be an expectation that remote team members to meet in the London office about once every 2-3 months.

They believe in the benefits of working remotely, but also value a sense of shared mission and personal community, which benefits from sometimes getting together. If your circumstances don’t perfectly align with this, we are flexible to discuss.

Their culture

They are passionate about their team, and we want that to be more than just words. They want to continue to build a team of people who can thrive and succeed, as well as feel valued and welcomed, at all levels.

As part of that goal, they are trying hard to actively build a diverse team, as they believe diversity is a necessary component to building the strongest company possible.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £70,000.00-£90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Gym membership
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Wellness programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Cloud infrastructure: 3 years (required)
• AWS: 3 years (required)
• Computer networking: 3 years (required)
• Python: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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