Principal Platform Engineer

Internal use only - Grade E

About us.

We’re the team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers. ✨

About the role

• As a Principal Platform Engineer you will help to design, deploy, manage, fix, and reinvent the tools, services, components, and platforms that our engineering community rely on to deliver business change.
• Your internal customers are your engineering colleagues, with a common goal to serve our external customers, and grow through learning and innovation coupled with deep inter-tribal collaboration and communication.

• You will be curious and try and continually improve the platform and service we provide, by surfacing and championing new processes, procedures, and tooling.
• You will have an agile mindset of working systems and evolutionary architectures.
• Automating toil will be at the forefront of your mind.
• To do this at pace and scale we fully understand that ‘failing fast’ is better than never succeeding.

You will work on the following:

• Design, build and maintain secure, reliable, reusable scalable cloud infrastructure
• Design, build and maintain build and release pipelines, with integrated linting, testing etc.
• Manage integrations between hosting platforms and applications

• Automate efficient working practices where possible
• Providing technical solutions to real business issues

About you

• Experience of building reliable, secure scalable platforms 
• Experience in Service / Platform development from conception to delivery. 
• Experience with the following technology stack - 
• Core AWS components such as:  VPC, AWS Networking, EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, IAM, ECR, etc 
• Teraform, Jenkins, Gitlab, Kubernetes / Helm, Docker, Ansible, Packer. 
• Scripting language such as Python / Bash 
• Significant knowledge of AWS, terraform and the tooling listed above.  
• An understanding of Serverless applications architectures.

Some of our benefits

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment

• £1,000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found on our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.

What happens next?

Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have.

For this role after meeting our Talent Acquisition Team you can expect a 2 stage process.

First Stage - A Technical Interview - likely to be on Teams

Second Stage - Behavioural Interview, this interview focuses more on your softer skills, how you like to work as part of a Software Engineering Team (60 minutes onsite)

If you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here.

Equal opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities

We’re building a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

 We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via [email protected]. We’ll be happy to support you.

 We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.