Senior Platform Engineer

The role

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with a passion for architecting and building cloud native systems. Within this role, you will have the opportunity to work on our own private cloud which is hosted in Form3 data centres and to help us build the next generation Form3 platform which will run across multiple public clouds.

Technical environment

Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, TravisCI, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Linkerd, Redis, Prometheus, Postgres, Cockroach DB, Elasticsearch, PACT, Github, DevOps, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming

Form3's private cloud technology

Observability: Prometheus | CI/CD: Flux | Networking: Cilium | Cloud hosting: EKS, GKE | Messaging: NATS | Storage: CockroachDB | On-prem infrastructure management: Terraform with Terraform Enterprise | Virtualization: Cloudstack, KVM & Digital rebar

Form3's multi public cloud technology

Observability: Prometheus | CI/CD: Flux v2 | Networking: Linkerd2 | Cloud hosting: EKS, GKE, AKS | Messaging: NATS JETSTREAM | Storage: CockroachDB | Infrastructure management: Terraform with Terraform Enterprise | Virtualization: AWS EC2, GCP Compute

What we're looking for

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices (Terraform is a plus)
• Knowledge of networking and DNS
• A background in Software Engineering and solid programming experience is beneficial but not essential (preferably Go but we're flexible on this)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (ideally)
• Enthusiasm towards building the next generation Form3 platform and an interest in technical challenges around how to make a platform cloud agnostic and scaleable in order to process billions of payments

At Form3, we're really proud to be an international employer that fosters a diverse and multicultural work environment. However, we do use English as the main form of work and business communication i.e., pair programming. As a result, we explicitly require all applicants to submit their CV in English.

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Flexible working arrangements
• Health & wellness allowance
• Remote working equipment allowance
• 4 hours of “investment time” per week, to spend working on projects that you are passionate about improving
• Learning days, Udemy and educational reimbursement etc.
• Mental Health support via Spill
• Perlego subscription
• Full details available on our careers page

Form3 appreciates that we all lead different and often really busy lives. We work remotely 100% of the time and many of us work part time. If you’re interested in hearing what different flexible working arrangements may be available, we’d love to chat.