Your new role At NewDay
This position needs someone with energy and passion to complement our existing development team, to contribute to our existing projects as well as work on strategic new projects. In this role you must have a desire to deliver high quality output within challenging timeline. The ability to hit the deck running and make valuable contributions quickly will be critical.
0-12 months you’ll deliver
- Drive excellent technical decision-making across the data platform’s infrastructure and deployment services by spotting the gaps, connecting the dots and looking ahead
- Mentor and guide the Platform Engineering team to embrace end-to-end ownership, and work on tough technical challenges
- Champion engineering culture through your practical knowledge of patterns and ways of working
- Introduce new technologies, lead experiments, and build Proof-of-Concepts to drive innovation
- Owning the relationship with AWS and third-party vendors, liaising with the account managers and technical account managers (TAM)
- Researching, testing and recommending best practice DevOps techniques as these fast moving technologies develop, keeping Newday at the forefront
- Maintaining and enhancing the existing DevOps principles and ensuring they are adhered to within the team
What you’ll bring
- Proven track record of owning technologies end-to-end, covering not only writing the code, but enabling all the work before and after
- Can communicate complex ideas to audiences from a wide variety of backgrounds and levels of technical expertise
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop platform engineers and technical leads by building relationships and sharing valuable insights into their work, and show new directions
- Expert knowledge of streaming and batch data infrastructure and services within an AWS and third-party PaaS and/or Cloud Native context
- Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML)
- Expert with containerization and containerized workflows (Kubernetes)
- In-depth understanding of DevOps and enthusiastic about continuous integration and deployment methodologies, nonfunctional requirements and processes of high-quality software engineering
- Strong knowledge of computer networks including cloud networks, corporate networks (Firewalls, Proxies, and VPCs) and AWS networks (Direct Connect, Route 53, Auto scaling, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Network Firewall)
- In-depth understanding of cloud platform security practices and recognised standards and protocols for authentication, and authorisation
- Experience with functional, data-flow programming in Python or a similar language
And would love you to know or learn:
- Fluency in ETL processes, data ingestion & pipeline knowledge, schema registry, data catalogs, eventing, and streaming analytics
About NewDay
We help people move forward with credit,and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.
Our dynamic NewDay culture
We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
Where next?
We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive
In the NewDay Tech team, you’ll join an Expert or Leader career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.
Let’s talk about this role – contact talent@newday.co.uk
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