Platform Engineer (Junior)
full-time•Cambridge
About this role
<h3><strong>What’s involved?</strong></h3><p><span>You'll develop and maintain reliable infrastructure and software delivery systems for our products, and support our Product Development teams in their use. You'll be mentored and guided by our experienced Platform manager and the wider team. This is a great opportunity for a junior software developer with a few years experience of JS/TS who wants to move into the platform space or a graduate with good knowledge of JS/TS.</span></p><h3>Must have</h3><ul><li><p><span>Software engineering with TypeScript / JavaScript / Node.js</span></p></li><li><p><span>Code management and version control (git/Github/GitLa</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Muli, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">b)</span></p></li></ul><h3>Nice to have</h3><ul><li><p><span>Kubernetes / Docker</span></p></li><li><p><span>CI/CD services - Gitlab Pipelines or similar</span></p></li><li><p><span>AWS (EKS/EC2/ECS/ECR/S3) and Google Cloud</span></p></li><li><p><span>Infrastructure as Code - Pulumi or similar</span></p></li><li><p><span>JS build tooling such as webpack, rollup, etc</span></p></li><li><p><span>Linux knowledge / Bash scripting</span></p></li><li><p><span>Front end development - React</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Who you’ll work with</strong></p><p><span>The Platform Team currently consists of two developers, a platform engineer, a test engineer and a Platform Manager</span></p><p><strong>Be yourself</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>With the help of our EDI group, we’re working to make every aspect of the business – including recruitment – fair, respectful and inclusive.</p><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><ul><li><p>Pension – up to 6% employer contribution</p></li><li><p>Medical and dental insurance (BUPA)</p></li><li><p>Hybrid working – typically 3 days in the office during onboarding, then 1–2 days per week</p></li><li><p>Up to 12% discretionary bonus</p></li><li><p>25 days annual leave</p></li><li><p>5 days of professional development paid for by the company</p></li><li><p>Death in service benefit</p></li><li><p>Flexible holiday benefits</p></li><li><p>Cycle scheme (fully funded by the company)</p></li><li><p>EV scheme (conditions apply)</p></li></ul><p>*You need to have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we can't offer sponsorship either now or in the future.<br>*No agency approaches please.</p>
What you'll do
- You will develop and maintain reliable infrastructure and software delivery systems for the products. Additionally, you will support the Product Development teams in their use.
About Cambridge Intelligence
Our developer toolkits make it easy to build powerful, customized user experiences for complex data.
We’ve partnered with leading organizations in cybersecurity, intelligence and fraud detection for years. We understand their data visualization challenges, and how to overcome them.
If you think you’d be a good fit for us, we’d love to hear from you - have a look at our careers page: cambridge-intelligence.com/careers/
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