Lyst is a Global Fashion Search Platform which connects millions of
shoppers globally with the world’s leading fashion designers and stores,
giving them a simpler, more engaging buying experience.
At Lyst we work in small, self-managing, autonomous teams with
end-to-end responsibility for a specific customer-focused project. This
structure brings together Lysters from all the disciplines that are
needed to deliver the squad’s goals. We reward these squads for the
Impact they make and value the innovative approaches that autonomy and
alignment can bring. We hire great people and get out of their way.
We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to maintain, support and
continue the build of our platform architecture, ensuring that
everything we do is reliable, highly secure and super fast, all the
time. You will be joining the Infrastructure Tribe, whose mission is to
improve the infrastructure at Lyst in order to reduce downtime and
enable other engineering squads across the company to efficiently
deliver, monitor and react on product releases.
Our architecture
Here at Lyst our engineers take pride in our continuous integration
environment with TDD always at front of mind, working in an entirely
AWS-based environment, using multiple AWS services alongside EC2.
The role:
* Maintaining and supporting all areas of our platforms architecture,
ensuring that everything we do is super reliable and super fast, all
the time.
* Enabling the Lyst’s engineering team to be agile and to make feature changes every day.
* Supporting a continuous integration environment and production deployment run entirely in Docker.
* Helping with the internal PaaS implementation and Custom Chef configuration.
* Creating a development platform, tools and pipeline that is effective and easy to iterate with.
* The huge challenges that come from working with a website with
over 2 million monthly users, 9 million products and a spider
architecture performing 3.8 million updates a day.
* Fixing the interesting problems we face in the best way possible;
we are not constricted to tool sets and languages. If you find a
solution to a problem that will work better, we use your idea. Best idea
wins.
* Building your own brand and skills. Lyst is a company that will
encourage and support you to get involved in the wider community. Events
like FOSDEM, PyCon, JS London and AWS re:Invent are regular occurrences
on our calendar.
* Creating better solutions for everything we do, from our culture to the code. This is your company, own it.
* The monitoring of performance metrics such as response and error rates on the Lyst platform.
* Proposing and implementing performance improvements, anything from
one-line fixes to re-architecting a component into a microservice.
* Capacity planning for new features, and ensuring they’re written with scalability in mind.
* Evaluating supporting services for new features, would PostgreSQL
perform better than Cassandra? Is a custom solution a better fit than
using ElasticSearch?
REQUIREMENTS
We’re looking for the best engineers who are excited to support Lyst
growth and interested in working on the huge challenges we are facing.
If the above resonates and you would like to strongly influence the
direction of our products and our culture, we'd love to learn more about
you and find out if we can work together.
What you'll be using here:
Python, Docker, AWS, Empire, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, JavaScript,
Elasticsearch, Ember.js, Celery, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, CircleCI, Chef, Test
Kitchen, Packer, StatsD, Graphite, Logstash, Memcached, mcrouter, ngin
BENEFITS
* Private Healthcare by Vitality - your health is important to us
which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme.
* Eyecare – Discounted eye tests and glasses.
* Company pension - up to 3% matching.
* The Lyst Clothing Benefit. We're a fashion company so we'll give
you £250 to spend on the site in Year 1, £500 in Year 2, £750 in Year 3
and £1000 from Year 4 onwards. You're going to look fantastic!
* Holidays - It's important you take time off! You get 22 days
throughout the year to take a well earned rest. In addition, you get 8
public bank holidays and 7 additional days when the office is closed
over Christmas, so a total of 29 days & bank holidays.
* Regular yoga classes, 5 a-side football and netball teams to encourage a healthy work / life balance.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Childcare vouchers.
* Season ticket loans.
* Your conference tickets are paid for - we’re big on learning and
development and encourage everyone to attend events. In fact we go
further and all Lysters get $1500 to spend on courses and training.
* Team meet ups twice a month to share some of the interesting things we’re working on internally and externally.
* Social events - from table-top games to climbing, movie nights to
triathlons, you’ll find a group of people always keen to get involved.
