Cloud Platform Engineer

Role type: Permanent or Contract 

Location: London/remote 

Preferred start date: ASAP

LIFE AT SATALIA

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the hardest problems in industry.  Satalia is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and interesting projects that will challenge, and allow you to develop new skills, lead and contribute to the overall community.

Our ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future.  Today this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust.

At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity.  We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment.

THE ROLE

The Cloud Platform Engineers deliver infrastructure solutions as part of an experienced cross-disciplinary team. We have a developer mindset and deliver our infrastructure through code, holding ourselves to the same quality and code standards as the rest of the team.

We need you to use your hands-on experience to drive the design, development and deployment of Satalia’s Logistics and Delivery products.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Work with our solution architects to identify the best technologies and process for our clients

• Act as a technical authority to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation
• Ensure security considerations are implemented, tested and maintained.
• Build in Observability

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• building infrastructure and deploying code in one of the main Clouds
  (preferably GCP, Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, K6)

• Implementing and maintaining monitoring, logging and tracing tools (Grafana or similar)

• Communicating and explaining technical concepts at appropriate levels for your team and to clients

• Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of:

• Infrastructure and Configuration as Code

• Safe Deployment strategies and CI/CD

• Cloud-based and Cloud-native system design

• Observability

• Developer Experience

• DevOps and SRE

• InfoSec and SIEM

If you know this, even better:

We’re interested in talking to people who have worked with different technologies. We’re looking for candidates who can demonstrate skills from this list, and who have curiosity and want to learn more:

• Experience in the Logistics industry

• Practical experience with BitBucket Pipelines, GitHUb Actions Workflows or Azure Devops Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts

• Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with differing Cloud implementations

• Experience deploying and operating observability stacks in production environments, including integration with Kubernetes workloads and cloud-native services.

• Hands-on with Terraform – familiarity with Terragrunt, Terratest

• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments

• Management of Automation Tooling – Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI

• Experience with automated testing tools - Selenium, JMeter, Lighthouse

• Strong scripting skills - Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl

WE OFFER

• Benefits - enhanced pension, life assurance, income protection, private healthcare; 
• Remote working - café, bedroom, beach - wherever works;
• Truly flexible working hours - school pick up, volunteering, gym;
• Generous Leave - 27 days oliday plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave;
• Annual bonus - when Satalia does well, we all do well;
• Impactful projects - focus on bringing meaningful social and environmental change;
• People oriented culture - wellbeing is a priority, as is being a nice person;
• Transparent and open culture - you will be heard;
• Development - focus on bringing the best out of each other;

Satalia is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you’re looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we’d love to hear from you.

We aim to respond to all applications within 2 weeks. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks this means your application has been unsuccessful.

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Good luck!