DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer - London or Remote
Festicket, United Kingdom
Job Description
Festicket was formed in 2012 with the aim of offering the best service to festival goers around the globe. Event Genius was founded in 2008 to offer a complete event solution. In 2019 the two companies merged and we have been busy since then merging the technology and development teams to provide a single unified application. Now it is time for us to do the same for Infrastructure and DevOps.
THE ROLE
In this role you will play a key part in the transformation of our Infrastructure. We know where we want to end up and you will be a big part of getting us there.
We strive for high levels of automation, building everything infrastructure as code and using CI/CD to enable seamless, frequent, safe releases into our production environment. We have a variety of applications built with different technologies and we are looking for someone who can bring them all up to the consistently high standards of automation, deployability, robustness and scalability that we desire.
You will be working very closely with our current Infrastructure engineer to apply the best of what we currently have across all our systems and develop new solutions to fill the gaps.
We really want to make sure we include the developers on our Infrastructure journey and you will be regularly involving them in planning to make sure we stay aligned with their goals. Product teams regularly have new requirements and you will be expected to work with them to ensure they get a solution that is right for them. You will also run training session for the rest of the team on tooling and offer support to those interested in getting involved with Infrastructure development.
You will be responsible for ensuring that we are continually improving the security and stability of our platforms and ensure we are offering the best possible development experience to the rest of the technical team.
Our stack
http://stackshare.io/festicket/festicket
Work culture
Product teams are organised into agile, product focussed, cross-functional teams that are empowered to define their own work and decide how to organise themselves.
We work incrementally but do occasionally take on bigger projects to update our stack and product. We like to build fast, scalable, easily maintained and dynamic applications using the latest and greatest tools and technologies available. Most of all, we like to deliver! Continuously if possible
More on the company
The Festicket Group family is a truly international team with 100+ people from over 20 different countries, all passionate about changing the face of live event experiences. Our head office is in Camden, London with a remote workforce distributed across Leeds, Berlin, Amsterdam, Porto, Nantes, Denver and Australia.
Since 2012, we have provided a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travellers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,500+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 5,000 suppliers for accommodation amp; travel packages. In eight short years, we have become Europe's largest music festival platform.
Since our acquisition in 2019 of the multi-award winning cashless POS platform Event Genius and the associated Ticket Arena consumer website and brand, we are on track to become the most complete end-to-end live events platform for fans and organisers built to serve any event, any size.
We're now post Series-D funded, and backed by some of Europe's largest VC funds.
Requirements
Technical:
- Experience building and running cloud based systems ideally with AWS
- Experience of containerisation of services using Docker and container orchestration, preferably ECS
- Experience of building Infrastructure as code eg Cloudformation, Terraform
- Knowledge of CI systems and automated deployment
- Some coding experience, preferably with Python
- Experience using monitoring and logging tools to aid with understanding and debugging application performance
- An understanding of good security practices
- Comfortable with git
Your passions:
- Creating robust, flexible and performant infrastructure using the latest technology and best practices
- Making the development workflow as smooth and efficient as possible through automation and tooling
- Creating and managing effective continuous integration amp; delivery/deployment processes
- Being an integral part of the development process and working in a collaborative technical team
Nice to have:
- An understanding of highly scalable web services
- Knowledge of ChatOps
- Experience