At Glasswall, we are doing things a bit differently. Good different. And we’re not just talking about it; we’re walking the walk. The amount of learning, growth, progression, and positivity that we are experiencing right now makes me excited and privileged to be here and be a part of our evolution.
We are on the hunt to add exceptional talent to our team - the next generation of talent who will be as excited as we are by modern thinking, ways of working and engineering practices. There’s a lot of cool things happening here coupled with incredible opportunities for learning, contribution, ownership and delivering world-class products that genuinely make handling digital documents safer for all.
A big part of our culture is openness, transparency, and diversity. We are driving to publish more of our work to the broader community. Have closer engagement and collaboration with our customers and partners. We aim to find diverse and talented individuals from all walks of life and previous industry experience. Bringing different perceptions to the work we do; we believe we do it better. We have recently started an Organisational Health Committee and a Women In Tech team to better help, support openness, transparency and diversity here at Glasswall. We are constantly improving employee engagement in a hybrid and global working environment.
The talented candidate will have a software engineering background and a passion for cloud native technologies. They will work within our Engineering Team. Their primary role is to propose and support the building of scalable and resilient Cloud platforms, with a strong focus on Kubernetes based solutions. They will lead and coordinate cloud and software architecture that supports both delivery and operational capability of our range of products. They will be a leader providing technical guidance and direction for implementation, modernization, enhancement and management of the Kubernetes/Docker CaaS enterprise-wide architecture.
This is a senior engineering and architecture role, reporting directly to our Chief Product Officer. In addition, the role collaborates very closely with our Engineering and DevOps leads. The role is based in the UK and requires UK RTW status. We offer flexible and remote working with occasional team meet ups.
Tech Stack: .Net, Python, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Microservice Architectures, Azure DevOps.
Required Skills and Experience
- Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof and scalable solutions
- Deep technical knowledge of Cloud based solutions (AWS or Azure) and Kubernetes
- Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organisational structure and needs to facilitate working with relevant teams
- Experience in architecture and designing technical cloud-native solutions based on industry standards and best practices using Azure and AWS capabilities
- Effective communication and the ability to communicate clear architectural direction to a variety of stakeholders
- Building native and portable Kubernetes solutions
- Experience building Ecosystem Architecture including Domain Driven Design, Insights Forwarding, Messaging Schemas, etc
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the design and architecture of Cloud Solutions and Kubernetes deployments across the business
- Liaise with project teams, create solution concepts, and provide architectural direction
- Work with business stakeholders to translate requirements into application architecture
- Reviewing and giving advice for Kubernetes-based infrastructure, Core-DNS, Kube Proxy, Ingress, etc
- Creating solution prototypes and presenting ideas to stakeholders
- Designing architecture for observability and APM
- Apply expertise in cloud environments and achieve highly resilient and scalable solutions
- Enable DevOps and development contribution to selected solutions
- Provide valuable feedback to stakeholders on project risk
Beneficial skills, experience and certifcations
- Certified Kubernetes (CKAD or other)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Avid subscriber of CNCF and open-source cloud native technologies
Behaviours
- Excellent communication, technical leadership and management skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Excellent stakeholder and expectation management
- High level of initiative, motivation, adaptability, with the ability to seek out solutions to problems
We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow, and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organisation.
Salary and Benefits
- Glasswall offers a competitive salary and incentives package.
- Benefits include training and development opportunities, generous holiday, private health care and pension contribution.
- We offer flexible and remote working options, with hybrid working from our office in the Greater London area.
Application process
Interested candidates, please visit http://careers.glasswall.com/ to apply.
Reference materials
Glasswall website: www.glasswall.com
Glasswall blog: www.glasswall.com/blog/
Try CDR: www.glasswall.com/trycdr/