Platform Engineer

As a Platform Engineer at Beam, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our cutting-edge software applications. Reporting to our Group IT Director; This is a newly created position due to company growth, you will collaborate closely with our development, operations, and platform engineering teams to ensure our platforms are robust, scalable, and secure. This position will require a deep understanding of cloud environments, bare metal, automation tools, GitOps, and best practices in infrastructure as code (IaC).

Other companies might call this: DevOps Engineer, SRE Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Cloud Operations Engineer, Platform Operations Engineer

Objectives & Responsibilities:

Beam is an exciting and dynamic environment meaning these are likely to change as we grow. Upon joining your objectives and responsibilities will include:

• Quickly get up to speed with our current infrastructure, and develop a comprehensive understanding of our application requirements and team workflows.
• Collaborate with the team to design and implement initial enhancements in our cloud infrastructure, focusing on improving scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Create and deploy automated provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes to significantly reduce manual efforts and boost operational efficiency.
• Expand the scope of our monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the stability and performance of our platforms, allowing for proactive management and quick issue resolution.
• Build strong relationships with development, operations, and security teams, providing support and sharing knowledge to foster a collaborative and productive environment.
• Show tangible improvements in infrastructure reliability, deployment speed, and cost efficiency, contributing to the overall success and growth of Beam.

You should apply if you have:

We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role:

• Proficiency with Kubernetes
• Experience with Ansible (or similar tools like Puppet)
• Expertise in AWS
• Skilled in Terraform
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP Networking
• Knowledge of Python
• Extensive Enterprise Linux experience (preferably Debian-based)

Grow together with Beam where you will learn these skills or build on your expertise:

• Jenkins
• Golang
• Helm
• MLOps experience
• ArgoCD
• Fortigate Firewalls

Benefits

People join Beam because they are excited by the possibility of leaving their own mark on the world and developing solutions that solve real world problems. Although we share the same vision, we value varied perspectives, and we adapt to fit different people from all walks of life. Not only does that make for a genuinely awesome team of colleagues, but it also makes day-to-day life more interesting, and it’s how we keep evolving and getting better at what we do.

What’s in it for you? You’ll get to work with a passionate, smart and highly driven team with an incredible range of skills. 

In addition, you’ll get an extensive range of benefits so you can focus on doing your very best work:  

• Flexible working options including compressed hours 
• Hybrid working, up to 3 days from home
• 33 days annual leave increasing 2 days a year up to 43 days after 6 years (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Private medical insurance, including Dental & Optical 
• Career and learning development through paid courses, conferences and events
• Curiosity fund – up to £500 to spend on learning which is not role related
• Up to 10% company bonus
• Pension up to 6% company contribution
• Life assurance paid at 4X salary
• Volunteering day, to give back to your local community
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Recognition & rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours

Location: Bristol, 2-3 Days per week in the office

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 depending on experience