Platform Engineer

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** Please note that any applications submitted for this role will not be reviewed until January 2025**

At Wealth Wizards our vision is a future where everybody in society has access to financial advice and guidance. Our Software as a Service (SaaS) platform provides engaging digital experiences for consumers and powerful tools for financial advisers.

We are a true Fintech with a strong engineering culture and focus on innovation and agile methodology.

We welcome individuals from all walks of life and strive to build a culture where all voices are heard, differences are embraced, and everyone has equal access to opportunities. We encourage applications from individuals of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and backgrounds.


If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made during the application or interview process, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.

Job purpose

To design, build, and maintain the underlying infrastructure and software systems for Wealth Wizards to host automated online financial advice. This role focuses on creating robust, scalable, and efficient platforms that enable developers to deploy, manage, and monitor their applications easily.

Key Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing…
  • Executing operational work within an Agile team.
  • Providing guidance on best-practice to ensure that the platform meets security and compliance requirements by implementing security controls, with best practices without compromising agility and innovation.
  • Shared ownership of team status board.
  • Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery, testing, and deployment processes to aid deployment of software releases to customer environments.
  • Code/peer review of colleagues’ work.
  • Documenting the platform architecture, configurations, and processes, and sharing knowledge with other team members to facilitate collaboration and troubleshooting.
  • Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimise resource usage.
  • Adhere to all Information Security policies and procedures
About You
Your skills

When it comes to skills and experience, the ideal candidate would have:

  • Demonstrate Wealth Wizards core values (PEARH).
  • Experience in key technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Linux, Containers, Kubernetes and IaaS.
  • Ability to automate repetitive tasks.
  • Good attention to detail.
  • Excellent organisation/time management skills highly desirable.
  • Strong understanding of AWS and experience in deploying and managing cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Genuine interest and enthusiasm for technology, with a desire to stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in the field.
Your experience 
  • Proven experience of Service Delivery and Service Monitoring within a commercial environment.
  • Considerable experience in participating in agile teams.
  • Practical experience with Docker for containerisation and Kubernetes for container orchestration, including deploying and scaling containerised applications.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS for deploying and managing infrastructure and services.
  • Previous exposure to setting up monitoring and logging solutions, such as Prometheus and Grafana to monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues.
  • Practical knowledge of implementing security best practices.
  • Knowledge of setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automating software delivery.
  • Worked independently on a continuous improvement related project.

Characteristics
  • Pioneering | Self-motivated and enthusiastic team player. Proactive, innovative, resilient and energetic.
  • Expert | Constantly seeking new learning/ self-development opportunities.
  • Accessible | Adaptable and enjoys a challenge. Builds strong collaborative relationships. Flexibility to work in a fast-moving business which is developing rapidly.
  • Reliable | Total trustworthiness essential. Highly organised, methodical, meticulous and disciplined.
  • Hungry | Understands and supports key priorities

Not sure if you tick every box? Don’t worry. If you think you have most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you.
Our Perks
  • Flexible working
  • We prioritise a sustainable work/life balance
  • We have a collaborative learning culture that promotes psychological safety
  • 25 days annual leave plus every bank holiday
  • Company pension (up to 10% employer contribution)
  • Company performance based Bonus scheme
  • Paid day off to celebrate your birthday
  • Additional holiday purchase (up to 5 days per year)
  • Additional holidays for length of service (up to 3 days)
  • Private medical insurance
  • Dental and health cash plans
  • Enhanced parental leave and pay
  • Discounts on gym membership and health screening
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Life assurance of 4x basic salary
  • £500 pension advice per year
  • 6 paid days per year for self development
  • Individual training budget per year
  • Professional memberships funded
  • Salary sacrifice car scheme
  • Cycle, Home & Tech scheme
** Please note that any applications submitted for this role will not be reviewed until January 2025**

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