Platform Engineer Permanent

TopCashback is one of the world’s biggest cashback sites and we help save our members money when they shop. We have more than 20 million members globally and work with more than 6,000 brands across three different continents.We’re extremely proud to provide an award-winning service to our members. Most recently we have won one of the most prestigious accolades for UK businesses -the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. We are a six time winner of ‘Cashback site of the year’ at the Moneyfacts Consumer Awards. We have also won a range of accolades at the prestigious Performance Marketing Awards including Industry Choice of Publisher (six times in the last seven years) and Best Team in Performance Marketing (won in 2021).

At TopCashback, since we began, we have been committed to building a fair, diverse and inclusive company. We believe that diversity and nurturing a culture where we can all be our true selves at work, makes us stronger as a business. We celebrate differences and foster a fair and equal environment for us all to flourish in. After all, we spend most of our time together. With fairness at heart, we‘re committed to being an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, nationality, age or similar. Whoever you are, whatever walk of life you are from, we’ll welcome you to our TopCashback family.

The Role
As a Platforms Infrastructure engineer you must have experience of supporting development and operational teams building and deploying Web Applications as well as configuring and maintaining the infrastructure required to support and monitor them. These experiences should be coupled with a passion to work on your own as well as with others to make improvements in these areas understanding the business needs and priorities.

• A history of successfully Building and Deploying Web Applications using TeamCity/Jenkins and ideally knowledge of Build Scripts
• Knowledge of Configuration Management including use of GIT and other Configuration and provisioning (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation/Ansible/Terraform
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the security aspects concerning Web Applications and how to meet their requirements
• Experience with Linux Server and Production experience with applications deployed in the Cloud (AWS preferred)
• Experience Scripting and automation on Windows and Linux OS, e.g. Bash, Git, Python, PowerShell, SQL, JSON, YAML, etc
• Great problem solver who tracks down the causes of issues in a systematic and analytical way
• Looks to automate where possible to improve the efficiency, robustness and reliability of our build and deployment process
• Enthusiasm for systems administration including keeping up to date with the latest operating systems, tools and techniques
• The confidence to perform in a production environment and the desire to deliver excellent solutions and service
• Clear verbal and written communication skills
• Willing where needed to support the team and websites out of hours on a rota’d basis
• Help with automation of AWS Backup/Restore and Disaster Recovery process steps.
• DevSecOps support, patches & updates for security controls, operational and problem-solving tasks.
• Improve, Innovate, and Suggest ideas for existing CI/CD Pipelines.
• Collaborate with the Security and Dev teams to onboard on DevSecOps
• Help in building infrastructure resilience for production applications.
• Installation and configuration of AWS-hosted production apps to security controls and SIEM for AWS

• AWS – EC2, VPC, Network and Security, NACLs, WAF, Network Firewall, AMI’s, Load balancing, Auto Scaling, Route53, Guard Duty, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, CloudFront, SNS, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, and Trusted Advisor.
• DevOps Automation – Jenkins, TeamCity, Terraform, Ansible, Continuous Integration, Continuous deployment, SonarQube, Unit testing, Integration Testing, CloudFormation, and Packer
• Programming & Scripting – Python, Shell, and PowerShell.
• Monitoring – Grafana, Graylog, New relic, Pingdom, Nagios and CloudWatch
• Operating System – Windows and Linux
• Agile – Experience working on existing Agile technologies such as Jira, Scrum and Confluence.