Job Specifications
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.
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
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 nominat
About the Company
Since launching in March 2000, we have remained the market leader and the go to place for people looking for their next home to buy or place to rent. To make all those home hunters happy we’ve invested in our tech and our website, we’re constantly looking to try new things with an aim to help make home moving easier.
Home movers across the UK spend more than a billion minutes on Rightmove each month. Our website and apps receive over 150M views per month, making us one of the most top visited sites in the UK!
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