Senior Cloud Engineer

At 15gifts, we believe in a more human approach to digital selling. Powered by a unique combination of sales psychology and AI, our virtual sales advisor understands and mirrors the sales techniques used by the best retail sales people. The result is a digital sales experience that feels truly personal and empowers online customers to make confident purchasing decisions online. The Senior Cloud Engineer's primary focus is to build cloud based infrastructure that is secure, scalable, repeatable & cost-effective which enables Product value delivery to our users. The role sits at the heart of our technical operations and will lead complex infrastructure changes, define SLOs and error quotas, ensure effectiveness and reliability of our systems, and train other engineers on best practices for infrastructure management. You'll be responsible for Working closely with engineering teams to implement new pipelines, functionality, services and systems Protect, optimise, and evolve our critical infrastructure Mentor team and individuals around subjects such as cloud best practices, 12 factor app and AWS well architected framework Ensure seamless operation and peak performance of our essential environments Bringing new ideas and innovation to our tech stack Simplify and streamline infrastructure provisioning and configuration Utilise automation to ensure services, practices and processes are repeatable, controlled and reliable. Defining and designing solutions to meet SLIs and SLOs Support platform services and tooling Skills and experience Must Haves At least 4-years experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure and services Ability to use programming languages to write scripts for automation Experience with DevOps tooling, preferably Github and Github Actions Administration of Linux servers and MySQL databases Experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform Experience with containerisation technologies, preferably docker Experience with DNS and Networking Nice to haves Experience with configuration-as-code preferably Chef or Ansible Exposure to security frameworks, e.g. ISO27k, CIS, NIST, CSA Experience with IAM. Our Culture Our success is underpinned by our cultural values. These values are not something we stick up on a wall - they don't need to be. They are behaviours that we recognise and celebrate in each other. They are what we live by every day. Our Cultural Values Positive vibes Take the initiative Seek feedback Stay ahead Team 15gifts Salary: Up to £69,000 Benefits include Employee Assistance Programme (confidential counselling) Medicash healthcare scheme (reclaim costs for dental, physiotherapy, osteopathy and optical care) easitBrighton travel scheme (discounted public transport options) Cycle to work scheme Life Insurance scheme 25 days holiday bank holidays your birthday off (rising to 28 after 3 consecutive years with the business & 30 after 5 years) Contributory pension scheme Other extras in the office On site changing rooms, showers and internal bike storage Breakfast, fresh fruit, snacks, beers Yoga and other fitness activities Regular social events, including Friday drinks Diversity is incredibly important to us. Research shows how people from marginalised groups are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every requirement. However, these accountabilities are a guide and, if you feel like this role could be for you and you don't meet every criteria, please do apply. We'd love to hear from you.