Staff Platform Engineer, RVU
£100-120k
+ 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
More information about location
2 days a week in office
The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
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The home of: Uswitch, Confused.com, Tempcover, Mojo Mortgages and money.co.uk
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£100-120k
+ 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Empowering people to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in running Kubernetes clusters in production
- Knowledge of Golang, Helm and Terraform (some knowledge of Python is definitely a plus)
- Production experience in Cilium and/or eBPF and networking in general
- Extensive experience in monitoring systems and their performance
- The ability to debug large and complex systems and solving large problems that affect a wide user base in a simple way
- Experience with image vulnerability scanning and patching strategies for large systems
- Experience / Familiarity with AWS Multi Accounts system designs tools like Crossplane and Control Tower
- Familiarity with Argo Workflows or similar data pipeline as a service tools
- Familiarity working with a variety of Cloud Native projects
- Familiarity with Github Action
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry
What the job involves
- The RVU London cloud infrastructure team (Airship)
- We’re looking for an experienced Platform/Infrastructure Engineer to join our platform team, known internally as ‘Airship’
- Airship manages the infrastructure that powers Uswitch and Money.co.uk brands as well the RVU wide AI initiative
- We are committed to Open Source software in order to build services that help millions of customers to save money and make confident decisions. As well as helping our customers, we also give back to the community by open sourcing interesting projects that we build that might benefit others
- Our goal as a team is to enable our development teams to deliver services quickly, reliably and securely. We do this by running multiple Kubernetes EKS and Fargate clusters in AWS, creating common tooling to aid in development tasks and running shared services such as Opensearch, Envoy, Vault and Prometheus to name a few
- The team has also expanded its scope to simplify Data engineering in the organisation using the same techniques we used to ease creating web applications on data pipelines, leveraging Argo Workflows and Argo Events as well as a recent integration with n8n
- Excellence: work alongside established and experienced engineering teams, whilst supporting and growing the organisation’s understanding and utilisation of modern technology
- Collaboration: work with various cross-functional disciplines across the organisation to make ideas a reality, whilst taking an active role in shaping and delivering the ongoing technical vision of the organisation alongside your peers
- Autonomy: authority over technical strategy, decisions and implementation approach, so you can deliver using practices that align with your preferred ways of working
- Data Driven: utilise rich logs, metrics, and data to monitor and improve system performance, cost, security and reliability
- Culture: enhancing a diverse engineering culture by taking part in various technical catch-ups, working groups, and 'All Hands'
- Experience: enrich RVU’s perspective by sharing your experience, knowledge and expertise in a continuous learning environment
- As a key member of the platform engineering team you will be accountable for the following:
- Objective setting, feature ideation, development and measurement
- Architectural decisions and designs of the platform, domains and systems
- Defining, evolving, and applying team processes
- Responsible for the entire stack to meet business requirements
- Building efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices
- Utilising a variety of infrastructure to keep systems performant, scalable & reliable
- Mentoring and coaching engineers, and presenting knowledge and information back to the wider organisation
- As a Staff Platform Engineer at RVU you will be expected to:
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across the organisation
- Manage your time effectively between team and organisational level contributions
- Rotate around the business to build relationships and act as a multiplier
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With increases in everyday costs presenting a significant challenge to households across the UK right now, RVU’s ecosystem of brands has the potential to provide a one-stop shop for consumers to ensure they are better informed and can save money on their bills.
RVU owns and operates Uswitch, Confused.com, Money.co.uk, Mojo Mortgages and Tempcover in the UK, all of which help millions of people make more informed decisions on a range of products and services for their home, such as energy, mortgages, insurance, broadband and mobile phones.
With the 2022 acquisition of Tempcover adding to the portfolio of brands, RVU is doubling down on the breadth of its product offering - expanding into the temporary insurance market. Tempcover is an insure-tech that brings flexible and affordable insurance solutions to motorists - whether hourly cover or month-long policies.
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Insights
41% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week
- Maternity leave: after 12 months of service, you'll receive 26 weeks at full pay, followed by 13 weeks at half pay
- Parental leave: after 12 months of service you'll receive four weeks at full pay, followed by 8 weeks of flexible working
- Adoption leave: after 12 months service - 26 weeks at full pay, followed by 13 weeks at half pay
- £300 ‘Work from Home’ budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- 25 days holiday excl. bank holidays (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, dental plans and employee assistance programme
- Up to 22 days per year “working from anywhere”
- Electric vehicles scheme and carbon offsetting scheme
- Free breakfast in the office daily
- Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
- Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
- Employee discounts programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
Company values
- We believe in making every second count
- We believe in getting better every day
- We believe in winning the right way
- We believe that everything is written in pencil
- We believe in being great people to work with
- We believe that we can be the change we wish to see in the world
- We believe in leaving the wood pile higher than you found it
Company HQ
Fleet, Hampshire
Articles
Leadership
Tariq Syed
(CEO)Joined Red Ventures in 2017 to lead the inception of their European operations, which included the joint acquisition of the ZPG Group and subsequently the creation of RVU.
People progressing
Principal Product Analyst @ Uswitch.
Director of Engineering @ RVU.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at RVU
- 'We can choose to do nothing, we can choose to be angry with the world, or we can choose to take action. We choose action. Not hollow words or quick fixes that make us feel good. Deep-rooted action that will make a lasting impact way beyond the boundaries of our organisation.' Tariq Syed - RVU CEO
- Empower: Our approach to Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) includes executive sponsorship, funding, and professional development for ERG Leaders. Current ERGs are focused on Women, BAME and LGBTQIA+ and Disabilities.
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