Platform Engineer Security
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About Birdie
Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its allinone solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most daytoday operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe.
Birdie was founded in 2017 a BCorp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina Omers and Index Ventures fuelling our mission to transform care.
Recognised for its innovation and impact we have received numerous accolades including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloittes EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nations prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastestgrowing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards.
Your mission at Birdie
As a Platform Engineer within our Platform team (the Owls you will architect build and operate secure Platform and Infrastructure tooling with a keen focus on enhancing Developer Experience Reliability and Security. Youll be a substantial voice in defining and implementing security best practices across the Engineering organisation.
This is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact on a rapidly growing company. You will be at the forefront of our shiftleft DevOps success championing security bestpractices robust CI/CD pipelines and leveraging AWS to its fullest potential.
How you will contribute
Embrace the Product Mindset: You appreciate the product mindset and are dedicated to understanding developer needs and driving innovation.
Solve Problems Pragmatically: You are experienced with writing code to solve DevOps problems and are a pragmatic problemsolver.
Thrive in Ambiguity: You can handle ambiguity and uncertainty adjusting your approach as needed and deliver initiatives from end to end.
Strive for Excellence: You follow best practices and understand the why behind them.
Share Knowledge: Youre intensely curious love learning new things and enjoy teaching others.
Drive Impact: Youre someone who gets things done takes responsibility and drives change. Youre also a clear communicator and influencer.
Lead with Confidence: Youre driven and ambitious in your personal development keen to step up and take ownership of Security Engineering at Birdie.
Wed love to hear from you if you have:
At least 3 years of experience with
Proficiency in AWS and Cloudnative architecture patterns with handson experience in IaC (Terraform Helm).
Strong understanding of Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies.
Expertise in building maintaining enabling secure CI/CD practices.
Experience with container technologies deploying monitoring and securing containerised workloads.
Solid understanding of observability principles.
Strong foundations in networking fundamentals.
Proficiency in a coding and scripting language.
Decent experience and/or interest in Cloud Security Engineering (cloud and application) DevSecOps and building secure systems.
What are the benefits
People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (BCorp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our teams growth satisfaction and ability to thrive:
Compensation
Our salary packages are competitive the role is 60k 75k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.
Location
This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular inperson events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers.
Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK.
L&D budget
Learning an growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. Youll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books courses trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.
Work From Home budget
Making your workspace comfortable is important to us youll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.
Paid time off
We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments all Birdies get an extra Birthday day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year.
Birdie giving days
Birdie is a Bcorp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause youre passionate about) each year.
Sabbaticals
We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.
Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts
Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.
Cycle to work scheme
Birdie will buy a bike upfront and you can salary sacrifice to payoff over the next 1236 months
Parental Leave
Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100 of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave at 100 of your usual salary.
Fertility Leave
Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.
Employer pension contribution
Birdie contributes 4 of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5 (UK Birdies)
Frequent company socials trips and meals
We organise many socials quarterly retreats and annual companywide retreats
Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging
At Birdie were committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity equity inclusion and belonging.
Its essential to us that youre able to bring your authentic self to work every single day no matter your age ethnicity religion citizenship gender identity sexual orientation disability status caring responsibilities neurodiversity or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects.
If you have any questions regarding the interview process or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made please dont hesitate to contact us.
Employment Type
Full-Time
