Senior Platform Engineer

11:FS is on a mission to change the fabric of financial services. Our Consulting & Research practice builds challenger propositions globally, like we did for Natwest with Mettle. Our Pulse team creates a benchmarking tool used by the likes of Monzo, Starling, Natwest and Tesco Bank. Our Foundry team are delivering a Financial Services Operating System to help businesses quickly add financial services to their offering. On top of all of that, we’re a media company, generating content that supports our brand and changes the conversation - not necessarily in that order.
To do this we need an amazing team so we have pulled together the best in financial services and beyond.

We truly live our values at 11:FS, and they are critical to your entire journey here. ‘Cultural Add’ is as, if not more, important as pure technical fit, and as part of your interview process we’ll deep dive in our values and your beliefs. Everyone at 11:FS fits our 4 core values: Team, Attitude, Communication and Impact, and this remains at the core of our growth.

What we’re looking for:

Someone who enjoys building platforms, tools and other infrastructure that increase the efficiency, speed and stability of the digital products we are building.

Someone who can point to successful software products, services and systems they have contributed to.

Someone who wants to work in an environment where they’re solving problems for clients, and seeing the results of their work in the customers’ hands.

Someone who prioritises the needs of the team and the customers, and who can think on their feet.

We also want someone who can communicate their ideas and who knows the work they do is even more valuable if there is enough documentation/instruction for others to consume it easily.

Skills we expect you’ll have:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Github Actions or Argo
• Experience with Kubernetes or another container scheduler
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Experience with one or more of AWS, GCP, AzureExperience with security in the context of cloud or networking
• Experience with software development, eg. in Golang or Java
• Experience working in agile environments such as Scrum or Kanban

We know that Platform Engineering is a complex role with different responsibilities and names across the industry. We think it’s fair to expect that for this role you have a specialism in one or two of the above skills and a good basis of knowledge in at least three others.

What you’ll be doing:

• You will work within cross-functional engineering teams to build products and services, whilst also being part of a central Platform team, ensuring the work you’re doing aligns and that you can exploit commonalities.
• In terms of tech we automate wherever possible and we have considerable freedom to choose our tools and processes. We build on cloud where we can, we use Continuous Delivery as standard and we abstract away from the underlying infrastructure with Kubernetes.
• We like ‘T-shaped’ skills. You’ll be part of a team, and you’ll be helping the team deliver. We don’t often hear, ‘that’s somebody else’s job’.
• You will be getting your hands dirty. You’ll need to balance short-term delivery with building long-term strategic components and, most importantly, you’ll be able to plot a path from one to the other.
• We work closely and iteratively with our clients - expect to spend time talking to them, demoing and in standups (You won’t be on your own). While focus time is crucial, we always keep in mind we’re building for someone.

We strongly encourage people of colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. 11:FS is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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