Junior Site Reliability Engineer

Hey! We’re Plum, your smart saving and investing app on a mission to help grow money for life. Whether you’re stashing the cash for tea and toast in your first home or catching some rays during retirement, Plum’s got your back.

Since 2016, over 2 million people in 10 European markets have set aside more than £2 billion with our clever automation and AI – that’s the magic of Plum! As recognition for our work, we’ve received awards from the likes of Deloitte, Finder, and more.

That’s all down to our passionate team of 200+ Plumsters, who work around Europe to help us achieve our mission. And now we’re looking for more brilliant people to join us on our journey.

The role

You will be joining our Infrastructure squad as a Junior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure that Plum’s systems are resilient, secure, scalable, observable and fully capable to support our growth. You will support our Engineering function to use our infrastructure in the most efficient way. You’ll proactively identify areas of improvements and propose initiatives to make the SRE function more streamlined and with reduced overhead.

Your key responsibilities 🎯

• Operate, secure and scale our infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis).
• Automate aspects of systems using infrastructure management tools of the trade (we use Terraform).
• Ensure our metrics give an accurate picture of how the system is performing (we use Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana).
• Optimize and oversee our CI/CD infrastructure (Github Actions, CircleCI, ArgocD, Argo Workflows), empowering engineering teams with seamless build, test, and deployment automations.
• Participate in incident response and troubleshoot issues, correcting and improving systems to prevent incidents, and grow at scale.
• Build, improve and maintain Developer Experience tooling.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering squads, Security, Compliance to set up and improve Standard Operating Procedures.

Who you are 👀

• Working experience of 1+ years as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, System Administrator or in a similar position.
• Interest in coding, scripting, cloud infrastructure & learning new technologies.
• Analytical, troubleshooting attitude.
• Passion for continuous improvement and challenging the status quo.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, such as GCP and AWS.
• Familiarity with CICD tools.
• Strong foundational knowledge of GNU/Linux.
• Good grasp of Git CLI.
• Understanding of modern system design.
• Basic networking knowledge.
• Experience in Python.
• Familiarity with Relational Databases (preferably PostgreSQL).
• Excellent communication skills in English (verbal and written).

Good to have:

• System design/administration background.
• Security awareness with secure-by-default mindset.

Plum's Perks

• We're all in this together! Own part of the company through stock options 💷
• Private health insurance
• Annual training budget
• Plum Premium
• Referral scheme: earn competitive rewards
• Flexible approach to remote working: we encourage at least 2 days a week in one of our beautiful offices in London, Athens or Cyprus
• Team breakfasts and team lunches. 
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• 45 work-from-anywhere days: giving you the flexibility to work your way. 
• 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years to take the break you deserve. 
• Enhanced parental leave
• 1 paid volunteering day annually
• Annual team trip: to a surprise destination! 
• A fun, inclusive company culture (think 🦄🌈💯)

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Thanks,

Team Plum 💜

*Plum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Plum does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.