Platform Engineering Manager, Netcraft
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2-5 days a week in office (Westminster, London)
Phishing detection, cybercrime disruption and website takedown solutions
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Phishing detection, cybercrime disruption and website takedown solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office (Westminster, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To detect and disrupt cybercrime at scale through constant innovation, extensive automation, and unique insight, delivering a safer online experience for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- A proven track record of successfully overseeing and delivering infrastructure projects
- Substantial experience in supervisory technical roles, coupled with a desire to teach, learn and grow
- The willingness, and ability, to balance managerial and supervisory duties with your own individual contributions
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders (including high-latency interactions with stakeholders in other timezones)
- Substantial experience with AWS, with expert-level knowledge of services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, S3 and IAM
- Demonstrable experience with complex AWS networking (TGWs, VPC peering, multi-VPC/subnet networking, AWS Organisations, etc.)
- Demonstrable experience with AWS cost management and optimisation
- Experience deploying and administering Kubernetes workloads
- A deep understanding of how Kubernetes works (including CNI and CSI drivers, and operator patterns)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform and/or OpenTofu
- Experience managing VM-based Linux environments (particularly RHEL-based), using tools like Ansible, Chef or Puppet
- A strong focus on automation and operational efficiency, minimising manual intervention wherever possible to enhance system reliability
- A positive, solution-oriented mindset, and ability to take ownership of your work
Desirable
- Experience managing other managers
- Operated in a scale-up tech company, ideally supporting a SaaS product
- Experience with developer-facing tools and abstractions designed to remove infrastructure layer friction (e.g. Spacelift, Terraform Cloud, Atlantis)
- Experience obtaining (and maintaining) security certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP
- Experience running high-availability systems, leveraging an on-call rota to ensure customer SLAs are maintained
- Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS (including Aurora), MongoDB or OpenSearch, particularly at scale
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Experience with AWS GovCloud
What the job involves
- Reporting to Netcraft’s Director for Platform Engineering, you will lead Netcraft’s infrastructure team, as well as making technical contributions of your own
- Your direct reports will be other managers (Engineering Team Leads) as well as our most senior individual contributors (Principal Engineers)
- Your primary remit will be Netcraft’s AWS infrastructure: Kubernetes and Linux/EC2 workloads, across Commercial and GovCloud environments
- Running activities in our infrastructure team: conducting regular ceremonies; prioritising, assigning and reviewing work; and ensuring timely delivery of planned objectives
- Line-managing other managers, as well as the department’s most senior individual contributors. This will include an active role in coaching and mentoring engineers, sharing your expertise, and contributing to the growth of our engineering function
- Making excellent technical contributions of your own, assigning yourself Jira tickets like the rest of the team
- Supporting engineering leadership with strategy: including roadmapping, prioritisation, budget allocation, cost management, vendor selection and hiring
- Ensuring high availability and security of Netcraft’s systems and data (both internal and customer-facing)
- Striving to improve and accelerate the developer experience for Netcraft’s engineers
- Managing, and participating in, the on-call roster for the infrastructure team
- Monitoring the operational health of Netcraft’s environments, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, security risks, and any other issues
- Ensuring excellent observability into Netcraft’s environments
- Optimising Netcraft’s usage of AWS services for cost, performance, and security
- Providing guidance on cloud best practices and security standards
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Netcraft is a global leader that specialises in cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns. The company's portfolio includes partnerships with four of the world's largest companies, twelve of the top fifty banks, and five national governments, making it a trusted authority in the cyber-security space.
Central to Netcraft's achievements is its advanced technology platform, that enables the company to combat cyber threats with remarkable efficiency through automated processes. With this approach, the company swiftly identifies and neutralises online threats, providing clients with a robust shield against cyberattacks.
In a recent development, Netcraft has successfully strenghtened its commitment to combating online
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Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Hybrid and flexible working options
- 33 days holiday per year, including bank holidays
- Private health cover including digital GP services, dental and optical
- Pension scheme with up to 4% employer contribution
- Meals, snacks and drinks provided daily in our offices
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Ryan Woodley
(CEO)Previously spent 8 years at Progressive Leasing as the COO, CFO and CEO.
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