Platform Engineer Part Time

The Beans Group

About Student Beans

Student Beans is the world’s leading student loyalty network. We produce our award-winning technology for the biggest retailers on the planet, connecting them with the youth market. Featuring in The Sunday Times Tech Track , a list of the fastest-growing private tech companies in Britain, Student Beans consistently innovate to offer new solutions that satisfy our consumers, drive ROI for our clients and create an empowering workplace for our employees.

In the last two years alone, Student Beans has tripled the size of its teams in London, Manchester and New York and opened a brand new office in Melbourne. But we’re not stopping there! We are now REMOTE FIRST, so no obligation to come into the office.

Student Beans has an incredibly exciting journey ahead, with ambitious goals and endless possibilities. Our success is due to our brilliant people and we are looking for more talented individuals to join us on our journey.

About the role

As a result of our incredible success and growth, we are looking for a Platform Engineer to join us. Responsibilities include:

• Maintenance and administration of the platform AWS

• Creating development tools needed to run student beans, creating tools to make developers more efficient

• Streamline the running of applications to make the systems more efficient and effective

• Effective use of tooling chains

• Making sure teams have the right approach to build scalable applications

• Support the set up of team environments, source structures & tooling

• Maintain and champion documentation and remediation process

• Drive setup of non-functional requirements such as alerting, monitoring, security & performance

About You

We’d really like to hear from you, if you have…

• 1+ years experience in platform engineering or dev-ops

• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines

• Experience working with AWS, Docker and kubernetes

• Worked with Git in a commercial environment

• Worked on Linux OS

• Used Python, Ruby or Go languages extensively

• Motivation to learn new technology and follow open-source projects

• Initiative & an eagerness to understand new concepts

• Have excellent communication & problem-solving skills

• Worked with agile methodologies like SCRUM and Kanban

Life at Student Beans

We are passionate about our mission to empower students to thrive and believe our success is only due to our fantastic team, their different backgrounds, experiences and beliefs. At Student Beans our culture is welcoming and empowering, everyone has a voice and direct impact on our journey.

Here are just a few things that make Student Beans an awesome place to work:

• Competitive salary.

• Custom-designed and inclusive offices flooded with natural light and dedicated collaboration and thinking areas!

• Amazing culture – casual dress, office Sonos, football/pool and ping pong tables, overflowing fruit bowl, sweet treats and monthly lunches!

• Flexi-time.

• Vibrant, purposeful and social environment – famous winter parties and summer getaways, regular socials and adventurous activities.

• Focus on wellbeing – gym membership, wellness challenges

• Incredible partnership discounts for the biggest brands in the world: Google, Apple, TopShop, Ted Baker, GymShark, Domino’s, Uber … to name a few!