Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Are you passionate about development?

The Touch team is developing a next generation investment platform. We want to use technology to improve the way consumers access financial advice and manage their investments.

The majority of existing platforms are still reliant on software and processes that arent capable of supporting todays technology, so we started from scratch, developing a modern platform that is as efficient as possible.

We're building a mobile first investment app that lets advisers manage their clients' investments entirely through their Smartphone.

We're seeking passionate engineers to join the team.

If you're ready to take your career to the next level, apply now!

What you'll do:

• Design, manage and extend Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Monitor environments for performance, errors and security, catching issues before customers even notice. Focus on low levels of toil by improving tooling and processes.
• Infrastructure hardening including resolutions from pen tests, audit and other third-party testing of our estate.
• Make changes to Go, Typescript or Flutter code to support infrastructure changes.
• Work as part of a distributed team made up of self-motivated and collaborative individuals. Much of our communication is remote and async so good communication skills are key.
• Always look for ways we can improve our product, processes and practices. We dont like friction and waste.
• Automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment. We are huge proponents of automation.
• Work outside of your specialism when needed. While all our team members have a specialism, we dont let that restrain us. Our engineers jump in to help get things done even in technologies out of their core competency.

What you'll have:

• Excellent programming and problem solving skills
• Understanding of relevant software design patterns and paradigms, such as microservices, containers/orchestration or event-driven architecture
• Experience in creating performant, scalable, secure and well tested infrastructure.
• You take ownership of tasks and problems, clearing roadblocks and pulling in other people to help when needed.
• Experience working with Investment or Pensions platforms would be an advantage

Our tools and technologies:

The below are all things that we are either currently using or have found to be a useful foundation when joining our team. Prior knowledge of them is not essential but would be beneficial to the role:

• CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab)
• Cloud infrastructure (we use Google Cloud Platform)
• Containers (building, operations, security, and orchestration; we use Kubernetes)
• Go (we can offer training for experienced engineers who havent used Go before)
• Experience of penetration testing and audit
• Infrastructure as Code (we use Terraform and Terragrunt)
• Networking (layer 4 and 7 load balancing, DNS, mTLS)
• Observability systems (we're particularly interested in Prometheus, Grafana and
• OpenTelemetry)
• PKI (particularly Vault)
• Scripting (we predominantly use Bash and Go)
• PostgreSQL

About Touch by AJ Bell:

Touch are developing a next generation investment platform. We want to use technology to improve the way consumers access financial advice and manage their investments. The majority of existing platforms are still reliant on software and processes that arent capable of supporting todays technology, so we started from scratch, developing a modern platform that is as efficient as possible.

We're building a mobile first investment app that lets advisers manage their clients' investments entirely through their smartphone.

We originally founded the company (then Adalpha Ltd) in 2018, before being acquired in 2021 by AJ Bell.

Our perks and benefits:

• Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike loan scheme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Death in service scheme
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Paid time off for volunteer work
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Professional qualification support
• Talent management programmes
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

Hybrid working:

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where youll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

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