Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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Job Description
Are you passionate about development
The Touch team is developing a next generation investment platform. We want to use technology to improve the way consumers access financial advice and manage their investments.
The majority of existing platforms are still reliant on software and processes that arent capable of supporting todays technology so we started from scratch developing a modern platform that is as efficient as possible.
Were building a mobile first investment app that lets advisers manage their clients investments entirely through their Smartphone.
Were seeking passionate engineers to join the team.
If youre ready to take your career to the next level apply now!
What youll do:
- Design manage and extend Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Monitor environments for performance errors and security catching issues before customers even notice. Focus on low levels of toil by improving tooling and processes.
- Infrastructure hardening including resolutions from pen tests audit and other thirdparty testing of our estate.
- Make changes to Go Typescript or Flutter code to support infrastructure changes.
- Work as part of a distributed team made up of selfmotivated and collaborative individuals. Much of our communication is remote and async so good communication skills are key.
- Always look for ways we can improve our product processes and practices. We dont like friction and waste.
- Automated testing continuous integration and continuous deployment. We are huge proponents of automation.
- Work outside of your specialism when needed. While all our team members have a specialism we dont let that restrain us. Our engineers jump in to help get things done even in technologies out of their core competency.
What youll have:
- Excellent programming and problem solving skills
- Understanding of relevant software design patterns and paradigms such as microservices containers/orchestration or eventdriven architecture
- Experience in creating performant scalable secure and well tested infrastructure.
- You take ownership of tasks and problems clearing roadblocks and pulling in other people to help when needed.
- Experience working with Investment or Pensions platforms would be an advantage
Our tools and technologies:
The below are all things that we are either currently using or have found to be a useful foundation when joining our team. Prior knowledge of them is not essential but would be beneficial to the role:
- CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab)
- Cloud infrastructure (we use Google Cloud Platform)
- Containers (building operations security and orchestration; we use Kubernetes)
- Go (we can offer training for experienced engineers who havent used Go before)
- Experience of penetration testing and audit
- Infrastructure as Code (we use Terraform and Terragrunt)
- Networking (layer 4 and 7 load balancing DNS mTLS)
- Observability systems (were particularly interested in Prometheus Grafana and
- OpenTelemetry)
- PKI (particularly Vault)
- Scripting (we predominantly use Bash and Go)
- PostgreSQL
About Touch by AJ Bell:
Touch are developing a next generation investment platform. We want to use technology to improve the way consumers access financial advice and manage their investments. The majority of existing platforms are still reliant on software and processes that arent capable of supporting todays technology so we started from scratch developing a modern platform that is as efficient as possible.
Were building a mobile first investment app that lets advisers manage their clients investments entirely through their smartphone.
We originally founded the company (then Adalpha Ltd) in 2018 before being acquired in 2021 by AJ Bell.
AJ Bell is one of the fastestgrowing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an awardwinning range of solutions that caters for everyone from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 542000 customers using our awardwinning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than 86.5 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments and by continuously striving to make investing easier we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018 AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol we now have over 1450 employees and have been named one of the UKs Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years.
At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork we have a great sense of pride in what we do and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
Our perks and benefits:
- Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days increasing up to 31 days with length of service
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan
- Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free gym membership
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay pledge
- Enhanced maternity paternity and shared parental leave
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Dedicated time for proofofconcepts and assessing new tech
- Support to attend conferences events and meetups
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events including monthly payday drinks annual Christmas party summer party and much more
- Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals including access to personal skills workshops
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent management programmes
- Peer recognition scheme with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
- Casual dress code
- Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
Hybrid working:
At AJ Bell our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. Thats why we offer a hybrid working model where youll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members an initial period will be fulltime in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race sex gender identity sexual orientation age pregnancy religion physical and mental disability marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above or just want to know more about the company and the role wed love to speak to you.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
