7 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve AWS environments and shared platform infrastructure with a focus on reliability, scalability, and usability.
- Design and build self-service developer tooling for building, deploying, and operating services.
- Automate workflows and standardise infrastructure to reduce manual work and operational toil.
- Define platform-level monitoring, alerting, metrics, and reliability standards.
- Own and improve continuous delivery and release capabilities for safe, repeatable deployments.
- Respond to production incidents through a shared out-of-hours on-call rotation and improve systems based on operational learning.
- Mentor engineers and share knowledge across the engineering organisation.
Requirements
- Proven experience owning and operating web platforms in production at scale.
- Strong production experience with AWS.
- Experience defining actionable metrics, monitoring, and alerting for web platforms.
- Experience with platform-level security controls, observability, and responding to abnormal or unsafe system behaviour.
- Experience designing and operating continuous delivery systems supporting safe, repeatable, zero-downtime deployments.
- Experience responding to production incidents in an on-call environment.
- Comfort with command-line tools and environments.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language used for automation or tooling.
- Ability to solve complex cross-cutting problems collaboratively in a fast-moving environment.
- Interest in mentoring and sharing knowledge.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- BUPA health insurance and discounted gym membership.
- OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year.
- Hybrid working.
- Pension scheme.
- Motorway car leasing scheme for discounted zero-emissions electric vehicles.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay for eligible employees.
- Workplace nursery scheme.
- Regular social events.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Shared out-of-hours on-call rotation after onboarding, supported by the wider engineering team.
About Motorway
Motorway is a UK online marketplace for selling used cars, connecting private owners with verified dealerships through daily auctions. Sellers list vehicles via the app and dealers bid remotely, with the winning buyer arranging payment and collection. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, it is privately held and works with 8,000+ dealers nationwide, having helped hundreds of thousands of people sell their cars.