Senior Platform Engineer

Department: Tech

Location: Cape Town

Description

• Who we’re looking for: A Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with experience in AWS, EKS & ideally Azure
• The challenge: To lead the design and implementation of build, release, deployment and infrastructure for the Tillo platform across multiple services while migrating from Azure to AWS
• Where you’ll work: This role will be based in Cape Town, you'll be part of our global team, collaborating with colleagues and serving customers across the UK, USA, Australia, South Africa, and beyond. Our hybrid approach offers flexibility with regular team connection in our Cape Town office.
  
  

The Tillo Difference
We're in the business of rewards and incentives, so we know a thing or two about the importance of giving back. We can't grow as a business without growing as individuals, so we are committed to providing a workplace where passionate, driven individuals can thrive. We value collaboration, trust, positivity, and a willingness to learn - only by working as a team will we reach our goals.

We’re the market leader in the UK and are active in a number of other markets including USA, Europe, Australia and India.

Day to day this role will

• Lead a migration from Azure to AWS, maintaining all Azure and AWS Architecture and Services
• Support security of the platform and infrastructure
• Operate Container Orchestration Solutions (Kubernetes / EKS)
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines
• Design, build and manage Infrastructure as Code
• Work in an agile way following DevOps principles
• Manage disaster recovery, monitoring and alerting
• Mentor Platform and Software engineers on best practices
  
  

We’re looking for strong experience with

• AWS as a Cloud Provider, particularly managing EKS workload & some experience with Azure as a Cloud Provider
• Working in the PHP and/or Python and/or .net ecosystems
• Writing Infrastructure as Code (ideally in Pulumi)
• Deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes
• Git / source control
• Configuration Management systems (such as Ansible or Chef)
• Communicating the benefits of DevOps practices such as Agile ways of working, theory of constraints, and SLO-based monitoring
• Working in a fast-scaling business, and embracing the changes and challenges this brings
  

It’s not essential, but we’d love to hear about it if you have experience with

• Bash and powershell scripting
• Terraform
• Provisioning and administrating Windows Servers and VMs
• Provisioning and managing SQL Server and Azure SQL databases
• Managing Windows Active Directory
  
  

Benefits

We offer all our employees trust and empower our team to work with flexibility and autonomy. We’re a close-knit team and love working collaboratively, with our hybrid model, our team can come together at our fantastic office, but also focus in their own space. The Tillo team are a motivated bunch and we all work hard to push Tillo forwards, always innovating. We completely understand the importance of work/life balance and offer a supportive and collaborative working environment with the following benefits:

• 21 days holiday per annum
• Retirement Fund (5%)
• Health insurance contribution
• Employee Incentive Scheme
• Hybrid Working
• Top spec equipment including laptop, mouse, keyboard, monitor
• Anniversary gifts
• Monthly breakfasts, drinks, snacks and events
• Team Learning & Development budget