Platform Engineer

Who are Benefex?

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the UK. We believe no one comes to work to do a bad job or be actively disengaged, and that technology is instrumental in providing an exceptional employee experience. We are striving to create seamless but tangible interactions between employers and employees, making work a rewarding place for every single one of us. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.

Why should you apply?

• Cutting edge tech: Google Cloud, Kubernetes, API orchestration – all the tech you’d want to be getting your hands on. On top of that starting to adopt Backstage.io (https://backstage.io)
• Technical Challenge: This is a global platform that will be available across 170 countries. You’ll be working on multi-cluster Kubernetes round the globe and supporting a globally dispersed frontend with local APIs.
• Impact: In this role you will have an impact on a number of levels; people, product, technology and process. Strategically you’ll be looking at the day-to-day needs of the platform for OneHub Home, but also helping across the Product Squads.
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position.

Great benefits:

£52,000-62,000

Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)

£800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.

Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

Your birthday off

Two half day wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare

Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

Pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

£50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benefex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview

You’ll join the Platform team acting as the enabler for our engineering squads. This means day to day; you’ll be working closely with the other Engineers in Squads ensuring the platform is fit for purpose and evolving to meet the needs of the product. Also, within the Platform team, you’ll work with the Lead Platform Engineer and other Platform Engineers across the Squads to implement the overall Platform roadmap and strategy.

Responsibilities

Your role will be to understand the needs of the team and product, and then translate that into the necessary platform requirements. Your role will be responsible for:

• Helping to build and improve the cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
• Assisting developers with the CI pipeline (CircleCI) and build tools
• Creating and maintaining operational runbooks and alerts
• Building multi-cluster Kubernetes structures all across the globe
• Supporting a globally dispersed frontend with local APIs in each country
• API orchestration
• Cloud level performance monitoring: Backstage.io, Prometheus and Grafana

As part of the Platform team, you will be responsible for:

• Attending the Team meetings, discussing and communicating what platform requirements are needed by the Squad and how you can help other Squad needs.
• Working with the Lead Platform Engineer on the strategy for the products to ensure they are scalable and performant.

What are we looking for?

• A passion for engineering and continuous learning
• A pragmatic approach, someone with the ability to understand the big picture (business, product and tech), factor in all considerations and choose the best way forward
• A mindset of taking ownership, identifying and solving problems, able to navigate complex challenges.
• Good understanding of developer needs: Translate developer challenges into actionable platform improvements.
• CI/CD experience: Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
• Cloud infrastructure expertise: Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience. Ideally with GCP (happy with AWS or Azure)
• Strong automation skills: Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform for automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Docker and Kubernetes: Experience with containerisation technologies and ideally Kubernetes clusters.
• Bash/Python scripting: Utilise scripting languages for automation and infrastructure management tasks.
• Agile principles: Understand and advocate for agile methodologies in software development.
• Coding skills: Experience in any programming language, with Go, Java or Python being highly valued.

A huge plus would be:

• Experience in Backstage.io
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas.
• Experience with Okta or similar Identity management providers

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process

Benefex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

1. Initial informal call with the Talent team
2. Online tests in numeracy and logical reasoning
3. Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team
4. Final interview with the Director

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.