Platform Engineer II
MOO set out to shake up the world of print back in 2006. And we’ve come a long way since. Today we’re a 400 + strong team (we’re thinking of getting matching jackets) who create print and digital products for companies of all sizes – from Google and AirBnB to the guy who makes those amazing prints you found at a craft fair.
Our global HQ is in London, UK, while we also have premises in Dagenham. In the US, you’ll find us in Boston, MA, as well as East Providence, RI and Denver, CO and now in Cape Town South Africa!
As MOO scales its operations, we are breaking down our monolithic application and moving towards a microservices architecture. As a part of this journey, we decided to completely rebuild a part of our application in order to support a growing number of enterprise customers and have a B2B focused application.
Therefore, we are now expanding our Platform Engineer team to support the continued challenges of ensuring the reliability and security of our applications and this needs a Platform Engineer to join the team.
The Platform Engineer will be coming in to evangelise a continuous improvement to the ethos in the business to make sure we are ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest services and tools we can use to improve our ways of working.
You will be working with the engineering team to ensure the availability of our environments and to ensure they have everything they need to be able to make multiple deployments a day.
Tech Stack: Our application is run completely in AWS, primarily on EC2 and EKS, with a view to move to a serverless architecture using AWS services such as Lambda. The platform team primarily makes use of Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes (specifically ArgoCD) to manage infrastructure.
The Successful Platform Engineer will be able to support high availability applications: All we ask is that you are a driven Platform Engineer that enjoys learning, solving complex problems, and have an appreciation for observability and reliability.
Responsibilities
Design and develop platform services and tooling to support CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows and infrastructure automation.
Integration of pipelines, testing frameworks and deployments to keep the environment running smoothly.
Enhancement of developer experiences by supporting build, test and deployment.
Drive standardization of practices and tooling across various teams.
Contribute to incident management and on-call activities.
Problem-solving and engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Big picture mentality, able to understand different customer wants and needs both internal and external.
Requirements gathering and able to translate requirements into actionable items.
Presenting ideas for a win-win situation with customers.
About You
Strong proficiency in AWS (2 to 3 years minimum hands on activities)
Experience with infrastructure as code and experience using tools like Terraform, CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, observability tooling like prometheus or Datadog, and serverless technology.
Experience with migration activities especially within AWS and also Gitlab to Github.
Knowledge of Ansible is an advantage, but not required.
Strong experience and understanding of cloud computing, platform and DevOps practices and principles.
Solid experience working as an SRE.
Strong problem solving and communication skills, with ability to obtain buy-in from both technical and non-technical resources.
Worked closely with engineers to support them in their ability to deploy applications to production.
A hunger to learn! We are always looking for the best ways of working. This means we are always looking to use new technologies. As such, you must be keen to learn and develop with the company.
What’s it like to work at MOO?
MOO’s the kind of workplace where you can really be yourself. Dye your hair purple. Hit the sofa with your laptop. Whatever helps you feel comfortable and happy at work. We want to help you grow in your career and set you up for success – while also recognising the importance of a healthy work/life balance.
That’s why we offer 19 days holiday rising by one day for each year here (for 5 years), a matched pension scheme, and paid parental leave. We’ll offer you private healthcare and life insurance. We also offer flexible work schedules with hybrid and remote working for certain roles.
Diversity Statement
We are working hard to create a representative, inclusive and super-friendly team, because we know that different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds make for a better workplace. And that creates a better experience for our customers. MOO doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected class.
As a design and technology company we have a desire and a responsibility to build a business that represents the world around us. So we strive to create a values-driven, purposeful and highly empowered organisation that we are all proud to work for. And we are committed to continuous investment in building an open and inclusive environment, welcoming a diverse audience of candidates who see themselves working and thriving at MOO. Therefore, we’d like to invite you to complete this optional survey to help us evaluate our inclusion and diversity efforts. Completing this form is entirely voluntary and if you decide not to it won’t in any way affect your job application. We keep the information separate from your application and it is kept secure and confidential, it is only used to better our inclusion and diversity efforts. By submitting this information, you consent to MOO's processing of it for these purposes.