Platform Engineer (SRE)

Our StoryHello there. We’re Zopa.We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count.Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife The team:The Platforms teamis at the core of Zopa andhas been created to improve the way we deliver our infrastructure and evolve the reliability engineering culture.The team is responsible for evolving our infrastructure platforms to be drivable by our development tribes so that they can be more autonomous and agile,finding opportunity to replaceBAUtickets withautomation and APIs, designing properly reliable services and supporting the security processes that are required in an FCA audited environment. We aim to curate the right selection of technologies, such as cloud providers, container platforms, monitoring, metrics and logging,open-sourceprojects, to achieve the goals on our platform roadmap.We are currently on the lookout for a strong mid-level Platform Engineer to join us!A day in the life as a Platform Engineer at Zopa:Work onour TerraformplatformautomationstrategyWork with our tooling team toimproveour application release processes and pipelinesEnsure that the right level of monitoring and alerting is in placePlanupgrades toour container platforms to the latest version of Kubernetes, ensuring the latest features are being utilisedDesign processes and tools that help our developers to take more control of their products and the infrastructure they needWork closely with engineering managers and developers to ensure that the TOIL is kept to a reasonablelevel and that we seek opportunities to empower our developersParticipate in our on-call rota every 5-6 weeksMust have experience:At least 4+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer or similar positionStrong Linux administration (FlatcarOS, Amazon Linux 2or any Linux in general)Languages such as Bash or Python for automationCloud technologies such as AWS, GCP or AzureIaaC tooling such as Terraform, AWS CloudformationDocker containersNice to have experience:Experience in building and maintaining Kafka clusters (mirroring Kafka across multiple datacentres)Experience with KubernetesService discovery (Consul, Linkerd, Istio, etc.)Secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, Vault etc.)Good understanding of networking (OSI)Monitoring (AWS Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana etc.)Flexible working? Yes please!At Zopa we value flexible ways of working. We understand the benefits of face-to-face collaboration and the importance of a good work life balance. Our teams work in a hybrid manner from our open-plan, riverside London Bridge office and the comfort of their own homes at a frequency that suits the team and the work they do.Not only that – you'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choiceDiversity StatementZopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
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