Platform Design Engineer

About This Job Opportunity
Our Vision
To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.
Our Mission
Empowering global workforces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.
Our People
Our fundamental beliefs at CloudPay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.
What Makes This Role Exciting
CloudPay is a company that has been growing at 30% for five years straight; we find ourselves at an inflexion point in our technology stacks and IT organisational structure. CloudPays engineering teams build very sophisticated software using open-source technologies with the majority being in Java. We operate out of AWS. Our platform design engineers play a crucial role in the design, building and maintenance of all our software and services.
CloudPay builds, deploys and operates half a dozen customer-facing services and many more backend services across 1000+ Linux hosts and AWS-managed services. The ideal candidate will have a good working knowledge of Linux Systems is strong with scripting in various languages, working with AWS and is a strong study of new technology.
If you’re a self-starter who likes a challenge and is looking for an exciting new Platform Design Engineer role where you will have a real influence and impact on Cloud Infrastructure design, this is the role for you. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly-skilled, high-functioning team, forming an essential part of a rapidly expanding global business within the technology and financial services space.
Main Responsibilities
Provision, Maintain and Design secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform
Work with Platform Operations team exploring complex technical challenges and incident response
Build and manage secure CI/CD automation
Maintain complete and comprehensive documentation
Work closely with software engineers and fellow platform design engineers across different parts of the world
Experience Needed For This Role
Experience working within agile teams
Experience using ways of working tools such as Jira and Confluence
Good understanding of the following concept:
GitOps
IT Security; GDPR, encryption at rest/in transit, patching, least privilege
Networking; VPN’s, VPC’s, Transit Gateways, Routing, DNS, Firewalls
Strong experience in public cloud providers such as Azure, GCP or AWS (Preferred)
Containerisation and microservice architecture
About You And Our Core Values
Taking ownership, working with integrity and respect
Being a team player is key to our culture
Solution and customer focused
Great initiative with the goal for excellence in achieving results
Dedicated to developing and always looking for continuous improvements
Be creative, be committed, be engaged and enjoy what you do
Costa Rica Package And Benefits
Competitive Salary
Competitive vacation allowance
Calm app
Preventive Medical Check Up
MediSmart Business Plan
MAPFRE Medical Benefits
EAP
Wellbeing Allowance
MAPFRE Vision Benefit
Life Insurance and Total & Permanent Disability
WFH Allowance
Employee Referral Program
Paid Volunteering days
Bereavement Leave
Marriage Leave
Paid Sick Days
United Kingdom Package And Benefits
Competitive Salary
Competitive vacation allowance
Calm app
WFH Allowance
Life Assurance
Private Medical Insurance
Cycle to Work Scheme
EAP
Eye Tests & Glasses Contribution
Simplyhealth Enhanced Health Plan
Pension Scheme
Give-As-You-Earn (GAYE)
Employee Referral Program
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Paid Volunteering days
Marriage Leave
Bereavement Leave
Vacation Purchase Plan
CloudPay is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
The CloudPay culture is built upon on five core values, from which we develop our service, our technology and our business strategies. Our fundamental beliefs are a promise to our employees, customers and partners, built on the core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork.
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