Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

🌏 Oxford / London / Manchester / Remote

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme  

💖 Our perks  

• 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.  
• 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family.
• 🤒 Health cash plan - via health shield for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future. 
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit. 
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops. 
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year. 
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme). 
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.   
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗  

Oodle is one of the fastest growing fintech companies in the UK. Our technology is powering a revolution in automotive finance directly impacting people’s lives by enabling the fairest, quickest and most customer-centric motor finance products available to car buyers in the UK. At Oodle we are working hard to disrupt the car finance market. 

🙌 The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly talented and inclusive SRE team to work on supporting and improving the Oodle Engineering Platform.

You will be working within a team that evangelises immutable infrastructure, GitOps methodologies, leverage managed services where possible to minimise technical debt, aim to architect and create infrastructure at industry leading standards and security best practices and work with initiative to identify areas of improvement in managing infrastructure at scale using IaC (Terraform).

 What You'll Do: 

You will be working and innovating with the current technologies:

• AWS, GCP and Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Automation tooling such as Github Actions
• Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux)
• Python and shell scripting
• Datadog

You will be a point of contact for Oodle Engineering, supporting teams in their configuration and deployment requirements and collaborate with them during the planning process to ensure that their requirements are met whilst meeting our SRE standards. Oodle containerised services owned by the Oodle Engineering teams are Java, Python and NodeJS based.

You will be expected to join other SRE members on an on-call rota for support out of hours for SRE owned infrastructure and platforms.

Who you are: 

• Cloud Providers and Services (AWS, GCP and/or Azure)
• Containerisation
• Writing and deploying IaC
• Building CI/CD pipelines
• Linux administration
• Writing automation scripts. (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Version Control (e.g. Git)
• Observability tooling

You will have a strong ability to communicate effectively both internally and externally, and to take ownership of projects in a rapidly growing and evolving environment.

You will have a can-do attitude and have self-initiative to create and manage your Jira tickets as our issue tracking and ensure that any projects you complete are completed to a high standard with documentation and be willing to present and provide training to team members if they involve new tooling.

👩‍💻 Hiring Process  

• TBC

💚 Our Values   

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.   

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.   
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.   
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.   
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.   
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do.  

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.  

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures. 

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email [email protected]