Platform Engineer

Engineering at hyperexponential

Our engineering department is a melting pot of some of the brightest (and kindest!) engineers in the industry.

The level of complexity of hx Renew requires a highly technical, true engineering mindset so an output of this is a deeply creative, innovative environment where we push technological boundaries, both through our work and our regular (and sometimes irregular!) hackathons.

Your Mission

2024 has been a big year for hyperexponential. Our profile is growing rapidly, and our customer base with it. We have tonnes of exciting features to develop and we want to deliver more of them in parallel, sooner, safer, than we've ever done before. To make sure we're set for the future we're going to be looking at all our systems, refreshing most of them and reworking the rest to get us ready for anything. It's a deeply exciting prospect for us, and your mission will be to help us deliver this!

The Platform Engineering Team's mission is to build scalable and secure cloud solutions for both enterprise B2B customers and engineers. This team houses the smartest and kindest mentors where you will gain support and knowledge to challenge the status quo. As a Platform Engineer you will play a hands-on role to aid in the refactoring of our infrastructure codebase into deployable artefacts. You will help drive best practices and security are adhered to when simplifying IaC into reusable components

Key Responsibilities:

• Enabling the technology teams to deliver quickly through building Infrastructure as a Service.

• Implementing and optimising using platform best practices, ensuring that our AWS services are configured and used in the optimum way.

• Improving our build and release tooling, ensuring that we have the very best possible to enhance continuous development and deployment workflows.

Required Experience and Skills:

• At least 2+ years of experience in AWS and building robust infrastructure.

• Strong technical knowledge of Terraform, with the ability to create and manage infrastructure as code

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash etc) with the capability to develop and maintain automation scripts and tools

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage with internal teams.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen attention to detail.

Optional but beneficial:

• Previous experience with AWS Cost optimization tooling

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

Interview Process

• Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off

• Manager Interview

• Skills Interview

• Values Interview

• We offer!

Please note that background checks will be conducted as part of the hiring process to ensure compliance with our governance policies. We handle all background checks sensitively and in full compliance with relevant regulations. All applicant data will be processed in accordance with data protection regulations and our privacy policy.