As
a member of the platform team you will be working with our distributed
technical team who are primarily based in our London head office
(Holborn) but also working remotely (Berlin, Poznan, Skopje as well as
home working). The role will involve shaping Secret Escapes adoption of
DevOps and implementing key changes in infrastructure. Your day to day
duties will include working closely with our development team to assist
them with the operational requirements of implementing new and
maintaining existing applications, optimising our delivery pipeline,
maintaining and scaling our infrastructure.
About us
Secret Escapes is a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment where
self-starters have an opportunity to make a huge impact in one of the
internet’s fastest growing categories. We’re a dedicated and passionate
team who work hard to make things happen. You won’t find us standing on
ceremony or worrying about corporate red tape (we’re fresh out of that
stuff).
Our developers say
- We're open to exploring and improving the ways in which we build
software. We're a team that embraces change and want to work with the
best tools, processes and people.
- We socialize as a team. From team lunches to board games and LAN gaming, we have fun.
- We work closely with the business. We sit in the same space with the
key stakeholders. You get to see the impact of your work right away and
get immediate feedback.
- We believe in working with open source and giving back to the community.
- We have hack days are once a fortnight where we can work on projects we wouldn’t normally have chance to in our day to day.
- Professional growth is encouraged with individual budget available to be spent as required on training, conferences, etc
Your responsibilities will include
- Scaling our continuous delivery infrastructure.
- Process automation and monitoring.
- Site uptime, performance and scalability.
- Security of the production and development environments.
- Providing solutions for our developers to deliver features in a scalable and reliable manner.
What we are looking for
- People who are solution focused with a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- A background in programming and experience with operations in a commercial environment.
- Scripting and automation in Unix/linux environments.
- Knowledge and practical experience of scaling web applications.
- Experience working with cloud platforms.
Things you should know
We have a great range of technologies (if we do say so ourselves)
experience with these is beneficial but not a requirement: Groovy,
Python, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Jenkins, Linux, SmartOS, AWS, Ansible,
Fabric and others.
Our teams are named after some music greats and this role would sit
in the Nirvana team... get practicing your best rendition of ‘Smells
Like Team Spirit’.
We are a multi-cultural team with developers based in a few different
locations, including Berlin (Germany), Pozanan (Poland) and Skopje
(Macedonia). We communicate and collaborate with a variety of tool
including Slack, Google Hangouts and TeamViewer which gives us
flexibility to work from almost any location.
