Lead Platform Engineer
Why loveholidays?
The work we do in engineering underpins our vision to become the most loved OTA in Europe, providing a best-in-class experience for our customers pre- and post-booking. We work using our principles in highly-aligned, autonomous cross functional product teams and own the customer journey.
We are always looking to push the boundaries of what we can do with technology to drive an incredible customer experience. Our systems process 755 billion holiday offers every day, helping millions of customers find their perfect holiday. Our website serves 7,500 requests per second, backed by more than 100 services hosted on GCP to which we deploy 1500 times a month.
About the Cloud Infrastructure team
Cloud Infrastructure is a critical team for company success as it levels up the rest of tech through scalable Platform Engineering practices. We care deeply about performance, reliability and scalability of our systems, including the operational cost.
Leading a high-performing Cloud Infrastructure team.
Establishing and evolving team and technology processes to balance strategic delivery with tactical work.
The application of our engineering principles through a Platform Engineering lens.
Leveling up of Platform Engineering practices across the teams.
Improvement of our core hosting platform, observability and tooling.
Our engineering teams own the lifecycle of services from first commit to high-load operation in production. Your responsibility will be to help engineering teams succeed at operations, not to run their services for them.
What you’ll be working on:
Driving loveholidays Platform Engineering to the next level
Enabling our engineers to further self-service their needs with right tools, processes and training
Evolving GCP, GKE and observability with scalability, reliability and performance in mind
Securing our infrastructure through DevSecOps practices
Promoting and maturing FinOps practices
Ensuring our systems and their individual components can withstand x10 load by improving our performance testing.
Our runtime architecture is Service Based and hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Our engineering teams provision and manage their services' infrastructure with Infrastructure As Code using Terraform, Atlantis and Kubernetes.
We’ve deployed over 125000 times using GitOps (ArgoCD) and Helm, all validated by Conftest.
We place a strong focus on observability, continually evolving our monitoring and alerting stack, currently centred around the Mimir (Prometheus), Grafana, Loki, Tempo ecosystem. Our service mesh (Linkerd) provides uniform observability of all production services at 10s intervals.
Performance and scalability are integral to our software and infrastructure development process, achieved by combining Computer Science fundamentals and cutting edge cloud technologies.
Our teams are encouraged to use the right tool for the right job. We program in Java, Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript and others.
What we’re looking for
You are an experienced and motivated engineer who enjoys collaborating across teams to achieve shared goals, sharing knowledge with others. You consistently lead by example, and inspire and mentor up-and-coming engineers.
You go below the surface and understand the intricacies of technologies you use, like Kubernetes.
You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance systems, employing cutting edge technologies and processes.
Applying a product mindset, you solve for end users first, with technology being a means to an end.
You have a constant interest in learning more about the latest trends in the platform engineering space, and want to grow further. We strive to support engineers in their growth and will give you the platform to do it.
You own systems end to end, from specification to coding, to deploying, running and monitoring in production.
Perks of joining us
Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up
Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum
Ability to buy and sell annual leave
Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers
At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey.
- Team
- Tech - Engineering
- Role
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Locations
- London - UK
London - UK
About loveholidays
At loveholidays, we’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. We are a super fast growing travel-tech business who have been on an amazing journey from start-up to scale out - with over 400 people, and selling amazing holidays to over 4 million passengers across UK, Ireland and Germany!
We have big ambitions over the next 5 years - with a vision to be Europe’s #1 holiday provider. Come join us on this exciting journey!
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