Senior Platform Engineer (Bare Metal)

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

THE ROLE

This role is all about building and scaling the physical foundation of Form3s infrastructure true bare metal. Its a hands-on engineering position for someone who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.

As a Platform Engineer youll take ownership of managing and scaling high-performance bare metal systems. Youll work deeply with server hardware oversee firmware updates and build automation around server provisioning. The focus is on developing and maintaining resilient scalable distributed systems that support our broader platform ensuring optimal performance reliability and operability.

Projects youll be involved with:

Streamlining our approach to data centre maintenance to make it as low effort as possible
Scaling out the UK data centres to meet future customer demand
Improving performance of our infrastructure
Improving the automation of infrastructure provisioning

WERE LOOKING FOR

Solid grounding in system installation including operating system installations building system images and automated server provisioning
Experience in Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices (Terraform and Ansible are a plus)
Familiarity with hardware lifecycle including firmware patching BIOS configuration and component troubleshooting
Knowledge of networking including Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols VLANs and link aggregation
Strong understanding of virtualization technologies like KVM and QEMU and their interaction with underlying hardware
Understanding of Kubernetes and its intricacies when run on bare metal infrastructure
Experience running Kubernetes in cloud environments is a real plus
A background in Software Engineering and solid programming experience is beneficial but not essential (preferably Go but were flexible on this)
Enthusiasm towards ensuring a high degree of service reliability always putting the stability & safety of our products at the forefront

TECH STACK

RackN Digital Rebar Apache CloudStack KVM QEMU Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Packer EKS AKS GKE

THE TEAM

The Platform Infrastructure Team is responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that supports our on-premise Kubernetes clusters and manages our UK & US data centres. We also oversee cloud infrastructure across GCP AWS and Azure running managed Kubernetes clusters that power our Cloud payments platform.

Our infrastructure underpins the FPS gatewaythe largest payment gateway by volume we operatemaking our work central to Form3s ability to scale and meet growing customer demands. We manage over 60 hypervisors and hundreds of VMs across multiple environments combining robust Infrastructure as Code with hands-on operational expertise.

Were a self-sufficient distributed team empowered to make our own decisions. As part of the wider Platform Engineering organisation we collaborate closely with adjacent teams to ensure secure and highly available connectivity across our infrastructure and with our customers.

Team responsibilities:

Managing operating and ensuring the reliability of hypervisors (bare metal machines) for VM provisioning and management
Deployment maintenance and updates of software tools critical to bare metal and VM provisioning such as Digital Rebar and Apache CloudStack
Continuous improvements in our data centre maintenance process collaborating in cross-team efforts to ensure robust and efficient operations
Being on-call to ensure the seamless performance and uptime of the infrastructure & services responding promptly to any issues or incidents

INTERVIEW PROCESS

Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team

Stage 2: Take home test

Stage 3: Team interview

Stage 4: Technical interview

We always aim to stick to the above process however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure we find the best fit for the role!

HIRING LOCATIONS

We are able to accept applications from the following countries; Germany Netherlands Portugal Spain & UK

All new joiners start their first day in our office to collect the equipment needed to work remotely. Well also arrange for some of your team to come in to say hi ensuring youre supported and have a positive first few days with Form3!

ABOUT FORM3

Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. For more information about life at Form3 check out the following pages:

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THE ROLEThis role is all about building and scaling the physical foundation of Form3s infrastructure true bare metal. Its a hands-on engineering position for someone who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.As a Platform Engineer youll take ownership of managing and scaling high-per...