Job Description

Our broker platform is the core technology crucial to Ki's success - allowing us to evolve underwriting intelligently and unlock massive scale. We're a multi-disciplined team, bringing together expertise in software and data engineering, full stack development, platform operations, algorithm research, and data science. Our squads focus on delivering high-impact features - we favour a highly iterative, analytical approach.
You will be able to design, develop, deploy, and maintain testable, secure platforms and infrastructure that provide the foundations all critical Ki software is built on as well as empowering our product squads to take ownership of how they deliver software robustly and at scale. You will work with developers, technology, and product teams to build robust, scalable systems while creating and maintaining operational documentation as required.
As well as being an advocate for best practices in maintaining and operating stable, robust software systems, you will be comfortable providing operational support for the systems owned by the Platform squad and mentor and coach colleagues in both engineering and business domain subjects.
Your experience
You will have extensive hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platforms, a solid knowledge of cloud architecture principles and highly available systems and experience with all phases of the software development life cycle and agile methodologies.
Comfortable with Kubernetes, Docker or other containerisation technologies as well as experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform, you will be comfortable writing production software in at least one general-purpose programming language ( while Gophers are preferred Python is also good).
You will have experience deploying and managing RESTful Web APIs, building software using continuous integration, familiar with common tools such as GitHub Actions, GitOps as well as a strong familiarity with build tools (e.g. Docker) and SRE principals.
Demonstrable knowledge of Open-Telemetry, Prometheus, ServiceMesh (e.g. Linkerd) with knowledge of industry standard security principles, understanding of static and dynamic security testing tools, good understanding of security and systems best practices in a cloud environment.
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Role tech stack
Google Cloud Platform


Kubernetes


Docker


Terraform


Python


RESTful