Senior Cloud Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

11/4/2024

An inclusive work environment is an empowering one. At Cutover, we lead with empathy and enable others to succeed through curiosity, kindness, and self-expression.

Location: London or Remote UK

Choose your preferred work setup – whether it's fully remote or a hybrid model, with the flexibility to work from home or our London office.

Cutover's Collaborative Automation SaaS platform enables enterprises to simplify complexity, streamline work, and increase visibility. Cutover's automated runbooks connect teams, technology, and systems, increasing efficiency and reducing risk in IT disaster and cyber recovery, cloud migration, release management, and technology implementation. Cutover is trusted by world-leading institutions, including the three largest US banks and three of the world's five largest investment banks.

What tech stack do we use here at Cutover?

Our Cutover Enterprise platform is currently a Single Tenant platform, composed from a ReactJS frontend communicating with a Ruby on Rails API, hosted entirely on AWS, utilising RDS, Elasticache, Lambdas and many more.

Cloud Engineers on our team primarily engage with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Github Actions, DataDog and occasionally employ Ruby/Bash/Python scripting.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, here's what you'll be up to:

• Contribute to building a green field, highly available, and scalable EKS/K8s environment.
• Lead the technical architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation to support both product needs and overall technology strategy.
• Support and grow less experienced engineers.
• Contribute to Platform Engineering features such as CI/CD, Production Engineering and Monitoring.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver technical roadmaps.
  
  

What we'd like you to bring to the table…

• The role would suit a Senior Engineer looking for a pathway to Staff.
• Extensive experience with EKS/K8s, demonstrating advanced proficiency.
• A genuine excitement to work with our tech stack, showcasing deep experience with our Cloud Engineering tools (calling all AWS enthusiasts!).
• Taking ownership in leading Platform Engineering projects and a highly collaborative mindset, actively seeking opportunities to enhance our infrastructure.
• A focus on efficient delivery, taking the lead in engineering automated processes to streamline our delivery pipelines.
• Problem-solving prowess, ready to tackle issues in our cloud environment with a cool, calm, and collected mindset.
• Active participation in cross-team collaboration, ensuring seamless integration and communication across different functions.
  
  

The good stuff…

• We're excited to offer Share Options as part of our compensation package.
• 25 days of PTO per year + public holidays, and we want you to take all of them!
• 3 volunteer days to use for any charitable/voluntary cause you would like.
• A top-tier private health insurance package.
• Aviva pension scheme.
• Work from home stipends
• A personal learning and development budget through Learnerbly. You'll be supported in your quest for knowledge, whatever that looks like to you.
• If you're thinking of starting or growing your family, then you'll be in great company - more than half of our team are parents and we've built a globally consistent parental leave approach that we're proud of.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Safeguarding the mental health of our teams is paramount for us. If you'd like to, then you'll be able to avail yourself of multiple Cutover mental health initiatives, from fully subsidized therapy sessions to subscriptions to leading wellbeing platforms.
  
  

Target compensation package: £85,000 - £95,000 base, + stock options + benefits.

The final offer may vary from the target compensation package, taking into consideration factors such as your experience level and skill set. If we aren't aligned on salary at this stage, we'd still love to hear from you to better understand if there are more suitable opportunities at Cutover.

Diversity Statement - Empowering Our Teams

We encourage our team to bring their authentic selves to work, which we have found has strengthened workplace relationships and fostered a genuine sense of community.

If you are excited by this role, we invite you to apply! Even if your profile doesn't check all the boxes, please don't simply scroll past! We recognize that talent lies everywhere and that some demographic groups are more likely to apply for a "stretch role" than others. We are always open to different perspectives and professional backgrounds to keep Cutover's culture evolving and to ensure that we never stop learning.

Cutover is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Maintaining an equitable hiring process is imperative to our mission. All applicants are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, protected veteran or parental status.

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