DevOps/Fullstack Engineer - Edinburgh
Infinity Works, United Kingdom
Job Description
Who we are?
Infinity Works is a leading software, IT and Digital engineering consultancy. We help our clients solve hard technical problems in a wide variety of domains using a diverse set of technology stacks.
We're looking for people with the soul of an engineer; people who’ll roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the kind of projects where others fear to tread.
It may sound daunting, but it’s fun too if you love to be challenged and excited about your work then you will love it here. If you'd like to read more about Infinity Works, head over to our website: www.infinityworks.com.
What's in it for you?
You begin life at Infinity Works as a Software/DevOps Engineer, but the aim is to broaden your skills and become a T shaped, technology polyglot, excited about learning new technologies and techniques across the full technical stack and product life cycle.
You will primarily be focused on hands on engineering of consumer and business-related applications and as such will have an expert understanding of software engineering best practices such as effective source control, code reviews, daily builds, and automated deployments. You are equally at home with cloud, Internet related technologies, protocols and languages along with lean / agile development techniques and DevOps culture all working as part of a team.
Above all, you can write highly efficient, stable, secure, maintainable and performant code. And understand the difference between engineering and over-engineering.
Why are we hiring?
We've got some fantastic customers working with a number of exciting technologies, across DevOps, Fullstack and Cloud Engineering.
But we are more than just a software house . we are problem solvers and we solve them through technical engineering. This means you will regularly be working with the latest DevOps tooling such as Terraform amp; Prometheus and deploying to popular cloud platforms including AWS, Azure amp; Google Cloud Platform. We don't expect applicants to have such a broad experience in all cases, but we love investing in our employees to enable them to grow into full stack engineers across multiple platforms amp; languages.
What level is the role?
We try to operate the flattest company structure possible, that said we recognise progression is important to our staff. As a consultancy, this is measured by the value we deliver to our customers. The below table operates as a rough guide of the how our positions stack up. We're hiring at all levels:
Requirements
We're looking for engineers with primary skills in Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .net Core, Kotlin as well as exposure to a number of other technologies. You will have worked around multiple parts of the software lifecycle.
Things we're looking for:
- Demonstrated experience with one or more languages and modern frameworks.
- Experience with other development languages such as Go, Ruby, scripting language such as Bash would also be beneficial.
- Source code management systems such as Git, build tools such as Maven and CI tools such as Jenkins or Concourse.
- Experience in relational and non-relational databases such as Cassandra or Mongo.
- Modern messaging systems such as RabbitMQ amp; Kafka.
- Several years engineering enterprise services in multiple industries.
- Experience of working in a team with a DevOps culture surrounded by lean / agile delivery methodologies.
These would be great too, but aren't essential:
- Web technologies and frameworks such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, and Grunt.
- Experience with IaaS services such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Google Cloud Platform or similar.
- Exposure to virtualisation or container technology like Docker and Vagrant
- Log management and analysis solutions such as ELK stack, Loggly, Splunk, Sumo Logic and monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, New Relic, Prometheus or similar.
Benefits
We believe that our team should be rewarded for their efforts, so we offer a great salary along with a number of things that are designed to make life just a little easier.
- Competitive Salary
- Company Pension Scheme
- Contributory Private Health Care
- Death in Service (x4 salary)
- Hiring Bonuses (Referral scheme)
- Discounted Rail Season Tickets
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Financial Advice Service
- My Work/Life Solutions Voucher Scheme
A Career, Not a Job
At Infinity Works we work hard to ensure that nobody gets stuck in a rut doing the same old thing. We strive to learn something new every day put those new skills use as