Platform Engineer

Are you a DevOps pro, looking to join a growing platform team where you can make a real difference?

As a Platform Engineer at Cambridge Intelligence, you’ll design and maintain reliable infrastructure and delivery pipelines for our acclaimed graph data visualization toolkits, sites and systems.

What’s involved?

This is a varied technical role requiring extensive experience in both Platform and Software engineering with a particular focus on the building, delivering and monitoring of TypeScript/Node.js applications running on Kubernetes and AWS Cloud. Day to day, you could be applying yourself to anything from Platform architectural design or AWS Cloud management using Pulumi, to debugging CICD performance of Docker wrapped Node.js apps or integrating a JavaScript authentication library into our product sites.

You should be comfortable leading on projects, debugging complicated systems and have an appreciation for the need to occasionally set project work to one side to debug and fix high priority issues in real time.

You’ll need a passion for your work, along with a desire to help others progress their technical skills through close collaboration, coaching and mentoring.

Who’s the ideal candidate?

Our products are market leaders thanks to the innovation of our developers. To excel in this role, you should enjoy leading and collaborating on the design, implementation and maintenance of stable and reliable infrastructure for our products, sites and systems. You’ll enjoy working closely with the development teams to make the development process as frictionless as possible. 

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll get involved in various projects and processes including helping to mentor more junior members of the team. Our main programming language is TypeScript, so experience in that or JavaScript is essential. 

Required skills

• Kubernetes / Docker expert
• AWS (EKS/EC2/S3/IAM) expert
• TypeScript / JavaScript / Node.js application development
• Infrastructure as Code - Pulumi or similar
• CDN configuration - CloudFlare or similar
• Production-grade Software Engineering
• CI/CD services - GitLab Pipelines or similar
• Build systems for monorepos
• Code management and version control - git/GitLab or similar

Desirable skills

• Platform and web application security
• JS build tooling such as vite, webpack, rollup, etc
• Front end development - React
• Experience building/configuring auth libraries/services
• Experience working in, and/or setting up, an ISO governed environment
• Google Cloud Platform
• Linux knowledge / Bash scripting

Opportunities to grow

Everyone here gets funded professional development time, with up to five days allocated to learning new skills – whether that’s at conferences, training programs or using our subscription to Front-End Masters.

Be yourself

We want to build a fair, respectful and welcoming company, where everyone feels at home. That means taking a long-term approach to equality, diversity and inclusion – not treating it as a tickbox exercise.

With the help of our EDI group, we’re working to make every aspect of the business – including recruitment – fair, respectful and inclusive.

You will need the right to work in the UK now and in the future.

No agency approaches please, we are only hiring directly.

Hybrid working (three days a week in the office) #LI-Hybrid

Pension - up to 6% employer contribution

Medical and Dental Insurance (BUPA)

Up to 12% discretionary bonus

25 days annual leave

5 days of professional development paid for by the company

Death in Service benefit

Flexible holiday benefits

Cycle scheme (fully funded by the company)

EV scheme (conditions apply)