Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market. 

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The Role: Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

Location: London / Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

Reporting to: Platform Engineering Manager 

 

The Role

 

This role represents a unique opportunity to join a team prioritising automation, observability, and delivering value in iterations, while directly shaping developer productivity through self-service tooling and standardised workflows.

A typical week as a Platform Engineer might involve:

• Working with developers, providing support.

• Delivering training workshops to our internal customers, when necessary, and improving documentation. 

• Working on platform tasks and learning more about the technologies we use. 

• Expanding self-service capabilities in the internal platform to cover common use cases. 
  
  

 

Core Responsibilities:

• Platform Development:
  - Enhance IDP Platform.
  - Create Gitlab CI templates.
  - Standardise configuration and monitoring.

• Developer Support: participate in the rota to provide support to developers for platform related issues in areas that Developer Experience owns. We do a weekly review and brainstorm ways of reducing the number of requests through automation and building auditable self-service tooling, documentation and training. 
• Operational Excellence: participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota (1 week/month - competitive additional compensation offered). 
  
  

What you'll bring to the role:

• Previous experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on GCP.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Proficiency in containerisation technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Experience implementing and managing service mesh solutions.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts and their implementation in cloud environments.
• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment and management.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used in Infrastructure. 
• Experience implementing and managing secrets management, telemetry and observability tools.
• Good understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Experience with cost optimisation techniques in cloud environments.

We're looking for someone who:

• Always pushes for continuous improvement and has strong attention to detail. 
• Positive outlook, good people and communication skills.
• Has an automation mindset. 

 

Relevant technology we use:

• Google Cloud Platform 

• Google Kubernetes Engine with Anthos Service Mesh 

• Confluent Cloud 

• Incident.io 

• Gitlab 

• Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams 

• Elastic APM, Kibana 

• Java, Node, Python, Javascript, Go, React

 

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About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here!  We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

• We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
• We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
• We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
• We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
• We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.

We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right! 

If all of this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making......

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.

What we offer 

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments.
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan.
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes.
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in the office.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility.
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan.
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching.
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more.

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As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation. 

At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success., We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve. 

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