Mid Level DevOps Engineer

Title: Mid Level DevOps Engineer

Location: UK Remote

Position: Permanent

About Petlab Co

PetLab Co. strives to make the lives of pets better and currently we are succeeding as the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Founded in late 2018, Petlab Co. quickly became the largest DTC pet supplement brand, with its innovative products and educational campaigns having positively impacted the lives of over 1,000,000 pets and 250,000 owners. Petlab Co. is a vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-centric team who value and reward high performing players. It is an ideal place for a candidate who is ambitious, hardworking, loves animals, is looking to rapidly progress their career, and would enjoy working in a vibrant environment with smart co-workers and friendly office dogs!

About the role:

As the platform expands we looking to add more experts into our engineering team. We are focused in making sure we deliver a world class experience for both our customer and our team. We are looking for someone who has had varying and vast experiences the majority of which have been infrastructure but also has a good grasp of practical knowledge of application development. They need to know how to improve application performance and scalability by using the right tools.

We move and think fast so it’s important that you are able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and are happy to roll up your sleeves to do whatever it takes to support the team in every way possible. This is an exciting opportunity to have a huge impact in rocket ship of a business with a real purpose! If that sounds exciting - we would love you to join our pack!

A Day In The Life…

• Collaborate with our tech team and engineering managers on the Petlab applications and platform roadmaps to understand the context behind what you’re building;
• Collaborating and designing technical solutions with the engineering managers that satisfy functional and non-functional needs;
• Ensuring the platform is performant, secure, scalable, robust, reliable and high quality, well tested code in the critical areas;
• Responsible for making sure our infrastructure always has fail safes, and where possible introduce programmatic deployments;
• Continuously communicating outwards as earlier as possible when things are on track or not;
• Championing and sharing best practices to improve the team knowledge of how DevOps is critical to our velocity;

Requirements

What we’re looking for:

• A proven track record of 3+ years working as an DevOps engineer and building infrastructure to support numerous applications;
• Excellent understanding of the following: AWS tools and services, Terraform;
• Experience in automation tools and infrastructure as code
• Comfortable using command line and Linux
• Experience building highly available infrastructure;
• Good understanding and experience of Python (object oriented, functional);
• Enthusiastic self-starter that will be able to work in a fast-paced environment;
• Proven ability to quickly build and maintain authentic relationships and trust with individuals;

Our stack:

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Next.js
• React.js
• PHP
• Docker
• Netlify
• Bitbucket
• MongoDB / Redis
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk / EC2
• Aurora RDS

Desirable:

• Prior experience with serverless technologies
• Experience with architectural patterns like event driven design
• Experience working with the eCommerce domain and mobile application architecture;

Benefits

• Private Health Care through Vitality
• Generous Annual Leave - 28 days + public and bank holidays
• Flexible Working Hours – We focus on results and trust people to manage their time, whether working from home, while travelling, or in the office!
• Help@Hand – Employee Assistance Programme
• Royal London Pension Scheme – We offer a workplace pension scheme with one of the UK’s leading providers of group pensions. With an employer contribution of 5%!
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave – because time with new family members is important!
• Puppy Therapy – working in partnership with Paws in Work to provide a boost of oxytocin twice a year.
• Generous Learning and development budget – We always want you to keep learning.
• Free breakfast, fruits and snacks – refuel and revitalise with free munchies in the office.
• Working Environment – dogs are welcome!
• Life Assurance – In the event of your death, while employed by us, your chosen beneficiaries will be provided with a tax-free lump sum equivalent of four times your basic salary.
• Gympass – All in one subscription bringing you the largest selection of gyms, studios and apps.
• Electric Vehicle Scheme – Employees sacrifice salary in return for a new electric car, typically saving 30-40% of costs through income and tax and national insurance.
• Give Back Day – An extra day off in the year to volunteer plus a £50 contribution to your chosen charity.
• Health Cash Benefit – We offer the bronze package with enables you to claim a certain amount of cashback when you pay for something that is health related, i.e dental.

Petlab Co is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage all applications irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, nationality, marital status, and disability. We believe that diversity is at the heart of innovation and we welcome passionate candidates from all backgrounds. Come join the family and see for yourself!

Petlab Co. is the world’s fastest-growing pet supplement business. Launching in December 2018,PetLab Co. has a loyal community of over 100,000+ pets and owners, who have had their lives positively impacted by innovative Petlab Co. products. Petlab Co. is a vibrant, fast-moving, and customer-centric team who value and reward high-performing players. It is an ideal place for a candidate who is ambitious, hardworking, loves animals, is looking to rapidly progress their career, and would enjoy working in a vibrant environment with smart co-workers and friendly office dogs! With a currently strong foothold in the United States, in the next several years, the Company intends to rapidly establish a presence across Europe and Asia. This exciting growth/hyper-scale will be underpinned by a continually evolving bedrock of proprietary product formulations that will improve pet and owner lives. Finally, the Company intends to continue to grow the value-add services and innovative products it provides to its enthusiastic community.

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