About Bankable
Bankable is an award-winning FinTech providing a payments platform enabling solutions including virtual accounts, virtual and plastic card programmes, e-wallets and digital banking. We are currently experiencing exponential growth with a client base ranging from global corporates, banks, insurers and marketplaces to SMEs and FinTechs.
Role Purpose
As a Platform Engineer at Bankable, You will be working within the Production Services team to both support day to day running of the full stack/suite of Bankable’s Infrastructure and Applications and to then work with the wider team to help improve it.
Requirements
Your Responsibilities
- Identify, design and lead initiatives that help us scale.
- Support, maintain and expand our AWS infrastructure.
- Ensure our systems and services are both reliable and performant.
- Collaborate with Developers on new features and services.
- Work with the Security team to ensure that the platform is secure.
- Help solve interesting and difficult problems.
- Defining and tracking SLOs and SLAs
Our Ideal Candidate
- Excellent Linux skills, be confident administering and troubleshooting in Ubuntu.
- Good experience with AWS such as AWS S3, EC2, API Gateway, Secrets Manager
- A good understanding of troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Experience managing and supporting a large-scale internet-facing service.
- A proven understanding of monitoring and event management and associated playbooks within AWS
- An understanding of automation and cloud technologies including such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform etc
What would help
- Experience in support rotas and incident management
- Experience monitoring infrastructure using log, monitor, and alerting suites such as Datadog, ELK stack, and Pagerduty.
- Networking knowledge, particularly routing and VPNs
- An awareness of security processes and DevOps security tools
- Experience with messaging queues
- Docker and Kubernetes. We use Amazon EKS.
Benefits
Perks of the Job
- 25 days annual leave (increasing by one day per completed year of service, up to a maximum of 30 days)
- Up to four wellbeing days per year and one volunteering day per year
- Pension contribution, up to 3%
- Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
- Life Assurance at 5x base salary
- Income Protection
- Individual Training Allowance of £500 per annum
- Discounts on everyday expenses including health and wellbeing across our discount platforms
- Cycle2Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Monthly socials
- A hybrid working model; based in Europe’s largest technology accelerator in Canary Wharf, with awesome views of London (One Canada Square, 3rd tallest building in the UK!), our office offers fresh fruit for breakfast, freshly baked cookies for snacking every day at 3pm, regular networking and industry events
- A fun, fast-paced and collaborative environment, where you are encouraged to take initiatives and can see the immediate impact of your work on a daily basis
- The flexibility to grow and shape your career within Bankable, based on your interests and ambitions