Platform Engineer

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Description

• Job Title: Platform Engineer • Reports to: Engineering Manager • Location: Work remotely • Direct Reports: NA • Kooth is a fast-growing business with a social purpose. • Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:KOO), our mission is to provide welcoming and effective digital mental health support. • Working in partnership with the NHS, we are already the UK’s largest digital mental health platform for young people aged 10-25. • Works within a platform squad to maintain and improve Kooth’s cloud infrastructure and tooling. • Understands the business and makes technical and/or delivery decisions based on its direction. • Designing, implementing and maintaining cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services, using Terraform and good Infrastructure-as-Code practices • Developing and maintaining tools and shared libraries to maximise reliability and observability of the software and services we run, using Node.js as the primary language • Supporting software engineers with tasks and investigations involving infrastructure and during incidents • Advise and consult with other squads on cloud infrastructure and reliability matters to help them maximise their impact • Uphold and implement compliance and security best practices • Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery to drive an experimentation-based learning culture and iterate on product objectives • Collaborating across disciplines to build effective working relationships, solve challenging problems for our users, and drive positive business outcomes • Working with engineering leadership to create an empowered, ambitious and diverse engineering culture with a strong care for craft • Participating in an off-hours on-call rotation to support the ongoing reliable operation of our systems.

Requirements

• Significant and recent experience with AWS or GCP • Experience with observability tools for metrics, log aggregation and request tracing • Ability to devise telemetry data that is correlated with actual customer outcomes • In–depth understanding of Terraform • Working knowledge of Javascript and Node.js • Passion for helping teams to deliver reliable and observable software • Database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Google Datastore, BigQuery • An understanding of modern cloud architecture patterns • Focus on pragmatic delivery, able to take ownership and initiative to balance constraints • Strong communication skills, builds great colleague relationships across disciplines • Experience within an event-sourcing architecture • Experience with rapid application development techniques such as trunk-based development, automated testing at all levels and infrastructure-as-code • Experience with messaging technologies like Kafka or RabbitMQ • Web application development experience using React

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: • Generous Annual Leave • Professional Development • Financial Security • Health and Well-being • Life Assurance: • Flexible Working • Lifestyle Benefits