Principal Platform Engineer

Internal use only - Grade E

About us.

Were the team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose helping families get more out of life powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If youre high-performing ambitious and make the most of every opportunity we want to hear from return youll enjoy heaps of flexibility great perks and benefits and the freedom to be yourself keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference youll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers.

About the role

• As a Principal Platform Engineer you will help to design deploy manage fix and reinvent the tools services components and platforms that our engineering community rely on to deliver business change.
• Your internal customers are your engineering colleagues with a common goal to serve our external customers and grow through learning and innovation coupled with deep inter-tribal collaboration and communication.

• You will be curious and try and continually improve the platform and service we provide by surfacing and championing new processes procedures and tooling.
• You will have an agile mindset of working systems and evolutionary architectures.
• Automating toil will be at the forefront of your mind.
• To do this at pace and scale we fully understand that failing fast is better than never succeeding.

You will work on the following:

• Design build and maintain secure reliable reusable scalable cloud infrastructure
• Design build and maintain build and release pipelines with integrated linting testing etc.
• Manage integrations between hosting platforms and applications

• Automate efficient working practices where possible
• Providing technical solutions to real business issues

About you

• Experience of building reliable secure scalable platforms
• Experience in Service / Platform development from conception to delivery.
• Experience with the following technology stack -
• Core AWS components such as: VPC AWS Networking EKS ECS EC2 Lambda RDS IAM ECR etc
• TeraformJenkins Gitlab Kubernetes / Helm Docker Ansible Packer.
• Scripting language such as Python / Bash
• Significant knowledge of AWS terraform and the tooling listed above.
• An understanding ofServerless applications architectures.

Some of our benefits

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment

• 1000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30days holiday bank holidays
• Up to 25% discount on

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be foundon our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly and if successful in securing this role you will be required to undertake a credit CIFAS Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken including any unspent criminal convictions.

What happens next

Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch if youre successful so keep an eye on your emails! Well arrange a short call to learn more about you as well as answer any questions you have.

For this role after meeting our Talent Acquisition Team you can expect a 2 stage process.

First Stage - A Technical Interview - likely to be on Teams

Second Stage - Behavioural Interview this interview focuses more on your softer skills how you like to work as part of a Software Engineering Team (60 minutes onsite)

If youd like to know more about our interviews you can find out here.

Equal opportunities

Were an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race religion colour national origin sex gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Diversity inclusion and equal opportunities

Werebuilding a culture of everyday inclusion and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We dont discriminate based on age disability gender reassignment marriage or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply interview or perform a role let us know via Well be happy to support you.

Were proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.

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