Platform Engineer (Aws)

Step into the future with Slyp and be a part of revolutionising the transaction experience. As Australia’s first-ever independent Fintech backed by all four major Australian Banks, we're leading the way in transaction enrichment innovation. Our multi award-winning tech platform has transformed the buying experience by seamlessly embedding digital receipts, loyalty, and rewards into the payment process. We exist to create a unique, everybody-wins value for merchants and their consumers. While we are currently expanding and evolving our products set, our platform is already used by some of the largest merchants in the market including Kmart, Country Road, Chemist Warehouse, and hundreds more.Founded by former PayPal executives, the Slyp “village” has attracted top-notch talent from around the globe. Our inclusive environment allows Slypster’s to unleash their creativity and drive, all while being part of a movement that’s shaking things up for the better.
Here are some of our benefits –

• Employee Stock Option Program.
• Generous L&D program and personal budget.
• Slyp Gives – we run 2 community give back days each year.
• Competitive leave policies including parental leave.
• Personal wellbeing budget and wellness initiatives.
• Flexible work and the option to work from anywhere in the world (for a period of time).
• Sweet pet friendly office, monthly (sometimes random) lunch and learns and always on team experience program.

The role
As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for managing and maintaining the Slyp platform, with a passion for problem solving. You will make recommendations and help to create and maintain cloud services for developers that use this infrastructure for their software. You will need great collaboration and communication skills as you will spend a large part of your role interacting with developers and non-technical stakeholders. You will have expertise in the strategy, design, development, and implementation of large-scale projects in the cloud.You will have a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications and an ability to customize them to help our business become more secure and efficient. Extensive knowledge of cloud maintenance, experience in managing staff, and advanced industry knowledge are essential to keep us on the cutting edge. The Platform Engineer will have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of IT operations and an ongoing impact on growth.Core Responsibilities

• Contribute to the team’s rhythm, culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Solve challenging product and engineering problems pragmatically, elegantly and simply.
• Engaging with the engineering group in code reviews, planning, architecture, design and infrastructure discussions.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to improve engineering tools, procedures, and data security.
• Improve the use of automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) to help reduce the operational time required to get changes to production.
• Conduct system testing around platform / infrastructure security, performance, and availability.
• Contributing to the on-going maintenance and support of the platform.

A little on our technology

• Cloud based and AWS hosted.
• We embrace native mobile and make it easier for our partners to integrate our SDKs.
• React is our future for our web products - but we are currently a mix of both React and Angular.
• We lean heavily on AWS serverless technologies such as API Gateway (including CloudFront, WAF and Shield), Lambda, Kinesis and SQS.
• We have traditional NodeJS services running in EKS / Kubernetes.
• We store data in AWS RDS(Postgres), DynamoDB, Redshift and S3.
• Our data lake is based on AWS serverless technologies such as Kinesis, Lambda, S3 and Glue.
• We value customer data and keep security front of mind and at our core with AWS SecurityHub and GaurdDuty.

Requirements

• Strong experience as a generalist Platform Engineer with broad technical skills across Cloud platforms, Networking, Security and Storage.
• You have a deep knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services such as CloudFormation, ELB / ALB, API Gateway, Kinesis, Lambda, ElasticCache, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, Aurora and S3.
• You are skilled at automation and infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Experience in containerisation especially around Kubernetes and EKS/ECS.
• Experience with supporting microservices at scale with high reliability and resilience.
• Experience using a variety of databases including Aurora(PostgreSQL) and DynamoDB.
• Practical experience in cloud software engineering and best practices with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability and incident management.

Nice to have (but not essential)

• Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience with security best practices on cloud environments around data management.
• Software development background and knowledge of programming and scripting languages.