Bango enables content providers to reach more paying customers through global partnerships. Bango revolutionized the monetization of digital content and services, by opening-up online payments to mobile phone users worldwide.
Today, the Digital Vending Machine® is driving the rapid growth of the subscriptions economy, powering choice and control for subscribers.
The world’s largest content providers, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft trust Bango technology to reach subscribers everywhere.
Bango, where people subscribe.
Role
Reporting to the Director of Technical Services, as a Senior Cloud Automation Engineer in Bango, you will support our software lifecycle, from source to release, ensuring successful outcomes and that our products and development programs are delivered on time, to the highest quality levels, and are embracing continuous improvement principles and taking lessons learned to improve Bango methods and procedures.The Technical Services team covers a wide area of skillsets, including platform setup, configuration, hardening, and observability which provides Bango with the ability to deliver a highly resilient and secure platform for our customers to use.
Responsibilities
- Lead automation pipelines for our software products from source to release
- Design and drive changes to existing pipelines
- Identification of automation bottlenecks
- Drive Bango’s automation and deployment tooling adoption
- Configuration management of the software builds and releases
- Ensure all software artifacts are built efficiently, meeting automated quality gates
- Work with QA and testing teams to ensure effective test automation
- Work with Bango Software Engineers on the automation and setup of new projects
- Lead creation of secure/hardened infrastructure blueprints and templates for developers to use
- Simplify and improve software builds wherever possible
- Ensure the reliability and repeatability of software releases
- Advocate for automation across all Bango products and processes
Essentials
- Background in software development processes
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms and a sound understanding of cloud architecture principles / best practices (AWS, Azure, GCE, etc)
- Experience with Linux and networking
- Experience with containerisation and best practices
- Proven experience in similar senior roles (Cloud, DevOps, Automation, etc)
- Experience with Configuration Management tooling (Puppet, Ansible, etc)
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc)
- Experience with software automation servers and DevOps lifecycle tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc)
- Strong experience with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Perl, etc)
- Understand ‘Enterprise Grade Platforms’ in terms of reliability and observability
- A strong communicator (verbal and written), participating in and often leading discussions and planning/design sessions (both internally and externally)
- Accountability and Reliability will be key personal values for you
- Effective management of the expectations of others
- Your proactive mindset will afford you a great deal of autonomy in the role
- You are not afraid to challenge the status quo
- You will be an innovator and implementer of processes
Desirables
- Extensive and proven experience and understanding of working with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
- Experience and understanding of Cloud Security best practices, implementation, and observability
Benefits
- A friendly, informal working environment
- Your own Bango buddy – to help you settle in
- Bendi-time (flexible working hours)
- Bango social events
- Choose your own headphones, keyboard & mouse
- Generous share option scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Cash Plan
- 25 days holiday a year increasing to 28 days with 4 years’ service
- Cycle to work, gym discount
- Weekly Pilates & Yoga classes (virtual)
- Financial support for employee activity groups and charitable activities
- Free fruit, drinks and snacks, limitless tea, coffee and good quality espressos
- Company branded hoodie… to keep you happy and comfortable
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- 1Password
- Income Protection
- Bango branded Chilly’s bottle and coffee cup
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