Platform Operations Engineer, Beacon
£68k
More information about location
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
A modern CRM for charities
Posted today
A modern CRM for charities
21-100 employees
Posted today
£68k
More information about location
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform how charities work.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Administration role, preferably within a B2B SaaS environment is absolutely essential
- Solid Cloud Fundamentals: Confident hands-on experience with AWS core services (including RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch) and with GCP (specifically Google BigQuery)
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform, alongside a willingness to balance it with ClickOps where practical
- Meticulous attention to detail. You’ll be handling security compliance and user permissions where accuracy is vital
- Absolutely superb communication skills. You need to be able to communicate effectively across Beacon’s engineering team, working closely with other engineers to solve challenging problems and optimise processes
Desirable
- Experience with using GitHub Actions to set up continuous integration environments
- Experience with approaches for managing and scaling large SQL databases
- An eager, proactive approach to learning. You are excited to be mentored, take direction, and grow your skills within the team
- Familiarity with the ISO27001 security standard and how it relates to infrastructure
- Familiarity with Google Spanner
What the job involves
- Infrastructure Management: Perform updates to our AWS and GCP infrastructure via a pragmatic combination of ClickOps and Terraform configuration
- Security & Compliance: Action all security remediation actions coming from Vanta to ensure we maintain the high standards required for ISO27001
- Access Control: Manage and action all GCP/AWS permissions and access requests coming in via Beacon security
- Monitoring & Incident Response: Respond to infrastructure alerts relating to capacity or systems issues. Work with the platform team to configure AWS and GCP monitoring (alerts, performance dashboards, logs) and contribute to the team’s strategy for responding when things go wrong
Application process
- **10th June** – Applications open
- Introductory phone call (30 minutes)
- First stage interview (1 hour over Zoom)
- Final stage interview (3 hours, in person)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As nonprofits and charities often struggle to keep up with the level of innovation in the enterprise world, Beacon offers a cloud-based, data-driven CRM that lets them manage donations, fundraisers, payments, events & ticketing, marketing campaigns, and volunteers all in one place.
The last few years has seen an increase in the developments in the Charity CRM space. Companies like Salesforce have rolled out major upgrades to its non-profit cloud, while platform-to-platform integrations are also becoming more common. Further to that point, Beacon is one company that’s recently integrated with JustGiving.
The company has grown steadily in popularity since its 2017 inception, picking up well-respected clients like The New Humanitarian, The Jacobs Foundation, and Cruse Bereavement Care.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"There's always something new to do - clients have increasingly complex needs, and there's never an attitude of 'We can't do that' - but instead..."
Company benefits
- Our customers are all charities - you'll get to build your career whilst having a genuinely positive impact on the world
- Four day work week. Our working model gives everyone a 3 day weekend, every week
- We'll give you 6 weeks (24 days) of holiday every year, plus bank holidays
- Taking time off is important. And we really mean it: We'll pay you a £60 bonus for every day of holiday you take
- Banded salary system so that everyone is paid the same for doing the same job, and your growth within the organisation is clear
- Beacon is climate positive (beyond carbon neutral), so your employment won't hurt the planet
- A proper pension - we'll match 150% of your pension contributions (up to 10%)
- Private health insurance with routine dental & optical cover
- Modern parental leave policy (12 weeks at full pay, and it's the same for everyone, regardless of gender or circumstances)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sabbatical every 5 years (6 weeks off, fully paid)
- Share options scheme - everyone can own a part of the business
Company values
- Social good
- Sustainable growth
- Transparency
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
David Simpson
(CTO)Former Head of Product at IT Infrastructure company Tray.io, former Senior Researcher at domain name registry Nominet.
Chris Houghton
(CEO)Former Head of Partner Success at Tray.io, co-founder and former CTO at e-commerce marketing platform, Sauce Apps.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beacon
- We encourage everyone with the required skills to apply, we consider building a diverse and representative team to be critical to our success, and we actively pursue building a more diverse team
- We passionately believe in doing our part to fix the tech sector's diversity problem and that in building diversity we build strength
- We have a banded salary system to ensure that nobody is paid differently for the same role. Salaries across the organisation, including executive pay, are entirely transparent
- Our parental leave policy provides for 12 weeks of full pay, and can be taken by any parent, regardless of their new parenting circumstances
- We are actively working to demonstrate our commitment to our values by completing Bloody Good Period’s ‘Bloody Good Employer’ certification and working towards becoming a certified BCorp.
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