Platform Engineer, UNiDAYS
Plus company bonus scheme
Student-driven rewards & brand marketing platform
Job no longer available
Student-driven rewards & brand marketing platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Plus company bonus scheme
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give students the power to make every experience more valuable and rewarding by offering them student discounts.
Role
Who you are
- Strong cloud knowledge including hands-on experience in a wide range of AWS cloud services
- Strong IaC background (Cloudformation & Terraform preferred), application deployment strategies & cloud architectural patterns
- ECS experience with clusters across several environments
- Working knowledge of security, networking, CDN, load balancing, and storage solutions
- Good understanding of CI/CD practices across multiple environments
- Development experience, with an ability or aptitude to work within our core languages (C#, python, TypeScript)
- Confident & able to communicate freely with colleagues
- Strong team working skills
- Critical thinker & problem solver with a passion for continuous improvement
- Able to influence others
- Can give/receive constructive feedback
- Awareness of your strengths/weaknesses and interest in self-development
- Be able to challenge and be challenged
- Taking pride in your work to deliver to a high standard
- Proactive about taking ownership
Desirable
- AWS/Terraform certification
- Database administration experience (MSSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, Neptune, Redshift)
- Background of mentoring, training, or knowledge sharing with other engineers
- Knowledge of containerisation
- Operational experience in resolving incidents, incident management and conducting RCAs
What the job involves
- As a key member of our Platform team, this role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that’s taking platform strategy, cloud automation and developer experience to the next level within UNiDAYS
- You will be working closely alongside our software engineering teams to understand first-hand where improvements can be driven to get a better developer experience and improve the productivity of our engineers
- With a hands-on approach, you will identify and drive improvements in our systems' performance, reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency
- Build, test, and implement cloud services via IaC
- Work closely with software engineers to understand where platform engineers can add value as well as assist and upskill on their cloud needs
- Identify new technologies & drive improvements across our platform, shared tooling, modules, & packages
- Strive to create new/improve existing self-serving capabilities for software teams
- Monitor platform performance and identify areas for improvement with an SRE mindset for SLIs and SLOs
- Work to define, improve, implement and document best practices continually
- Participate in on-call one week per month (typically 1 call a fortnight with a simple runbook in place to execute)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Rewarding loyal customers with discounts is a tried and tested strategy for brands to engage with their audience. An ideal audience for such engagement is students on a budget. But, with rewards programs fragmented by brand, many potential customers can miss out on the opportunity.
UNiDAYS provides a student-driven brand marketing network, partnering with brands to market rewards, discounts, and opportunities to student demographics. Any student can sign up, giving them access to a large marketplace of curated freebies and deals, helping them be rewarded for their shopping whilst greatly boosting brand engagement for businesses.
Whilst there are various other brand marketing networks competing with UNiDAYS, it is undeniably a dominant force. It has over 25 million student members, meaning it is in a prime position to empower brands that want to reach this market - and save students money in the process.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus flexible bank holidays
- 4pm finishes every Friday
- Company bonus scheme
- Company pension scheme
- Private health insurance (Vitality)
- Income protection policy
- Life assurance policy
- Employee Assistance Program
- Enhanced parental leave pay
- Core hours with flexibility around how/when you manage your time
- Regular team building activities
- The latest tech and hardware will be supplied from day one
- Good Vibes Program to boost your remote working experience (think virtual parties, pottery classes, wellness classes, guest speakers, etc)
- Support for home working for all new team members (you can expense £150 towards any additional furniture you may need to be safe and comfortable)
Company HQ
Nottingham city centre, Nottingham, UK
Leadership
Jon Hawley
(CEO)Graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a BA in Graphic Design and Branding. Previously co-founded Orb & Crash and also worked as a Mentor/Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University.
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