Job Description
You might already know us - we're the ones with the Meerkats! Compare the Market has helped revolutionise the insurance market and we have been growing rapidly since starting in 2006.
Read all the information about this opportunity carefully, then use the application button below to send your CV and application.
We are on a mission to transform the comparison industry, moving beyond endless forms and generic search results, to a highly personalised, service-led experience. In order to do so, we recognise that we need to consistently deliver seamless, personalised customer experiences through a connected data and technology ecosystem.
Diversity and Inclusion
We're a diverse community of dedicated, innovative and talented professionals. With an inclusive and open workplace, we encourage our people to create and share ideas – supporting their growth and celebrating their uniqueness.
Location
Our teams operate out of our London and Peterborough offices with flexibility to a hybrid working approach.
Salary & Benefits
Besides a competitive salary we offer 25 days' annual leave, pension as well as tons of other flexible benefits (Think 2 for 1 Cinema/Meal tickets, Gym, shopping discounts etc.)
A little about the team and role
We need to build a world-class, self-service platform, this means you'll be working with smart people, who really make things happen! With an ambitious and progressive approach to engineering, this is an environment where you can truly influence vision, direction and technology strategy.
Your role will be pivotal in designing and building products that enable our engineers to deploy, run and observe the services powering our brand. As an Engineer you'll collaborate on solving problems, write code, leverage open-source and managed products, optimise and iterate your architecture as it travels from laptop to production. You'll participate in team reflections and ceremonies ensuring we continually learn, improve and develop ourselves alongside our products.
The team's products are built in AWS, and our primary tools are Terraform, Git, Linux and code – typically Bash, Python or Go.
Our roles are for specific pillars that are aligned to specific products and skillsets and these include:
Compute & Security: Kubernetes (Kops and EKS), Helm
Storage & Messaging: MongoDB, Kafka, RDS, RabbitMQ, S3, Data Loss Prevention tools
You will:
Work with your colleagues to iteratively build, run and own products
Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions; work with junior members of the team to develop your soft skills and their hard ones
Spot opportunities to leverage automation and code that eliminates toil
Learn and develop your abilities in coding, architecture and engineering practices for the cloud
Utilise, extend and contribute to open-source projects used by the team
What we want to see from you:
Ability to build and deploy solutions for testable and repeatable secure cloud infrastructure
Ability to design complete, secure and observable solutions that enable our developers to self-serve
Strong experience with core cloud technologies such as AWS & Terraform
Experience in a role aligned with DevOps & SRE patterns and delivery of cloud solutions that follow them
Knowledge of the core Linux, Networking, and Internet principles that underpin everything you do
A willingness to come up with new ideas, experiment, fail, learn and develop - and share that knowledge with peers across the wider team
A desire to contribute to internal and community open-source products
'We are committed to offering equal chances to you throughout the application process, so if you require any special adjustments to be made, please let us know. We will work with you to make any appropriate arrangements.’