Lead Platform Engineer

The Role
You'll leverage your technical expertise and engineering experience to empower our teams with the skills, tools, and guidance they need to build, deploy, and operate applications efficiently - delivering business value faster and more securely. Collaborating closely with engineering and product teams, you'll ensure our services are designed to be resilient, robust, reliable, secure, and fully automated for deployment. Your role will span all aspects of our delivery pipeline and infrastructure, where you'll design, implement, and support Continuous Delivery pipelines. As an advocate for "infrastructure as code," you'll prioritize automation to eliminate manual processes and drive operational excellence.
Our Team
MVF's Technology team vision is to create the world's leading digital marketing platform that drives long-term client growth, and as a technology and data driven business we recognise the key role outstanding engineers play in helping us achieve it.
We expect much of MVF's growth to come from great ideas our team members generate, with our collaborative approach accelerating their delivery. We strongly believe it is our team that can deliver this impact.
The engineering team delivers the unique set of bespoke products which have contributed to MVF being recently recognised as the UK's Fastest Growing Tech Firm.
The platform engineering team supports MVF's success both directly and indirectly, by enabling development teams to deliver business value faster, safer, and more easily.
What we're offering you:

• Summer hours
• Competitive holiday benefits (25 days a year paid holiday, plus 8 bank holidays)
• Work from anywhere for 2 weeks a year
• Life Assurance to protect your loved ones
• Benefits allowance for health, dental, and vision coverage
• Six months paid maternity leave, and one months paid paternity leave (subject to qualifying conditions) inclusive of same-sex and adoptive parents
• Defined Contribution Pension and Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Be Well: Our award-winning wellbeing and mental health programme to support all MVFers and their families
• Family Forward support for our MVF parents and their mini-mes
• Free breakfast when in the office

Responsibilities:

1. Build, operate, and enhance our platform service
2. Contribute in strategic architecture conversations with Lead Engineers and Engineering Managers to define the future of our platform services
3. Work alongside the Lead Engineers and Engineering Manager to define strategic approaches to engineering problems
4. Effective cost management to identify investment and/or savings opportunities
5. Scope, plan, and implement migrations
6. Stay up to speed with industry best practice

Our Ideal MVFer:
Personal characteristics

• Drive to deliver in collaboration with others
• Methodical approach to problem solving and debugging
• Awareness of tradeoff between perfect and done
• Eager to listen, share and teach
• Desire and aptitude for learning

Technical experience and exposure

• AWS, especially services such as VPC, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS/SNS, S3, CloudTrail, and IAM
• Cloud Databases (MySQL, Postgres)
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Docker and container scheduling systems (eg ECS/EKS, Jenkins, K8s, Nomad)
• Datadog (or similar cloud based observability tools)
• CI/CD (CircleCI)
• Networking (DNS, TCP/UDP, HTTP(s), load balancers)
• Internet service management (CDN, WAF)
• Security concepts, best practices, and tooling (eg least privilege, AWS IAM, TLS, scanning tools)
• User and system access management (Auth0, SSO, Oauth/OIDC, SAML)
• Disaster recovery planning and management
• Scripting using Python (or similar dynamic language) and Bash