DevOps/ Infrastructure Engineer ️

Description

Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. Our platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travellers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,500+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 5,000 suppliers for accommodation & travel packages. In six short years, we have become Europe's largest music festival platform.

The Festicket Family is currently at 150, and we're passionate about changing the face of live music experiences. Our head office is in Camden, London with smaller offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, Porto, Nantes and San Francisco with our recent partnership with Ticket Arena Leeds.

We're now post Series-D funded, and backed by some of the UK's largest VC funds.

We've been announced as #6 in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, a Tech City UK's Future Fifty company, #80 in the Financial Times Fastest Growing 1000 EU Companies and have just been announced in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2019.

Join us on our mission in transforming the way music fans discover, book tickets and travel packages for festivals around the world.

THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced DevOps/Infrastructure engineer with a passion for automation to support our growing range of applications.

We love automation and enabling our developers. Our aim it to have high levels of automated build and deployment for all our applications. However, we have a variety of applications built with different technologies and they are not all are as slick as we would like. We are looking for someone who can bring these up to the high standards of automation, deployability, robustness and scalability that we expect.

You will also be working alongside the current Devops engineer to ensure we are continually improving the security and stability of our platforms and ensure we are offering the best possible experience to the rest of the technical team.

Our stack

http://stackshare.io/festicket/festicket

Work culture

We're organised into agile, product focussed, cross-functional teams that are empowered to define their own work and decide how to organise themselves. We work incrementally but do occasionally take on bigger projects to update our stack and product. We like to build fast, scalable, easily maintained and dynamic applications using the latest and greatest tools and technologies available. Most of all, we like to deliver! Continuously if possible

Requirements

You're someone who's smart, organised, motivated and gets things done. You want to work in a startup environment, because you like the idea of doing a bit of everything and taking ownership of what you work on. You have ideas about everything, and you're not afraid to argue your point (while respecting everyone else's of course). You're constantly thinking "how can we do this better?".

Your passions:

• creating robust, flexible and performant infrastructure using the latest technology and best practices
• making the development workflow as smooth and efficient as possible through automation and tooling
• creating and managing effective continuous integration & delivery/deployment processes
• being an integral part of the development process, not just a system administrator, and working in a collaborative technical team

Your experience:

• 3+ years experience building and running cloud based systems ideally with AWS
• Experience building containerised services using Docker and container orchestration, preferably ECS
• Experience of building systems with Infrastructure as code
• Experience of using CI systems to automate deployment
• Some coding experience, preferably with Python
• Experience of using monitoring and logging tools to aid with understanding and debugging application performance
• An understanding of good security practices

Nice to have experience:

• Highly scalable web sites
• ChatOps
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL)
• E-commerce websites

Benefits

We’re a team of 160 located in an amazing the heart of Camden. By joining us you will be part of one of the fastest growing music / travel start-up companies in Europe, where you will have ample opportunity for career progression as we continue to grow.

We have a company culture which is very idea orientated and driven but also very social. It's entirely normal at 5pm on a Friday for half the company to be drinking together in the office & then planning to head out for a night out.

Benefits & Perks also include:

• 25 days holiday per annum
• 15 sick days per annum
• Discretionary flexible working from home
• Eyecare – Discounted eye tests and glasses
• Festicket United- 7 a-side football matches
• Opportunities to go to selected & partnered music festivals for free & all year round staff discount
• Extra day holiday for your birthday
• Management training programme
• Free breakfast
• Weekly delivery of beers, food, snacks, fruits and drinks
• Weekly Friday drinks at 4pm on Friday
• Regular team lunches
• Fun monthly company events
• Perks - free Festicket T-shirts, Jumpers and more
• Value driven start-up culture.