About the position
Kobalt is seeking a Developer Platform team member who will focus on delivering an exceptional development experience for their Engineering team. The team's goal is to create guardrails and promote best practices to ensure efficient and secure system building and operation. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in identifying and managing vulnerabilities at both the application and platform level, as well as expertise in setting up security best practices. Additionally, strong knowledge of cloud operations, infrastructure as code, and generalist DevOps skills are required.
Responsibilities
- Deliver the best possible development experience to the Engineering team
- Create guardrails and evangelize best practices for building and operating systems
- Lower cloud computing costs
- Lower maintenance costs
- Increase security profile
- Shorten deployment lead times
- Improve reliability
- Identify and manage vulnerabilities at the application and platform level
- Set up security best practices
- Work across multiple teams when required, through coaching and embedding
- Contribute to systems design with a security perspective
- Possess strong generalist DevOps skills
Requirements
- Deep experience in how to identify and manage vulnerabilities at the application and platform level
- Experience with setting up security best practices
- Strong experience with Cloud operations and infrastructure as code
- Ability to work across multiple teams when required, through coaching and embedding as required
- Ability to contribute to systems design, with a security perspective
- Strong generalist DevOps skills
Benefits
- Salary Range: Discuss with the Talent Partner.
- Flexible working. KTech operates with a hybrid working policy (fully remote possible).
- 25 days annual leave.
- 1 wellbeing day per quarter.
- Half day summer Fridays (July and August).
- Christmas closure.
- Meeting free Fridays afternoon outside of the summer months. We use this as dedicated learning time.
- 5% pension contribution.
- Health Insurance.