Platform Engineer

Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office (Tuesday/Wednesday) RVU RVU is a group of online brands that include:
Confused, Uswitch, Tempcover, , and Mojo Mortgages. We reach the majority of UK households, putting us in a unique position to drive the transformation of the household services sector. We harness cutting-edge tech and data to help consumers manage their homes more effectively, and we provide some of the UK’s biggest companies with unparalleled insight into what customers need and want.

Since our founding in 2018, we’ve integrated our 5 market-leading digital brands into a powerful data platform, supercharging our capabilities to drive lasting change, and by working with providers and policymakers, we’re helping transform entire industries - making markets more competitive and more innovative to benefit everyone.

The 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 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 Open search, 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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…