We are hiring a Cloud Data Engineer / DevOps

Job Role

Airship builds products that serve the best and most exciting brands in the UK hospitality industry - think Revolution, Byron, The Alchemist, Bella Italia, Turtle Bay, Franco Manca, Zizzi and many more.

We have a relaxed and flexible workplace ethos and we’re looking for a Cloud Data Engineer to join our small team (circa 40 people) to help us scale our databases and platform architecture, with the option to work part-remotely or from one of our offices.

Our engineering team are also proud to be the 2021 winners of the UK Dev Awards “Best Dev Team of the Year”. Come and join us!

Our technology

Airship and Toggle (our two key products) are both built with a Laravel powered back-end. Front-ends are built in VueJs/NuxtJs, rendered by NodeJS servers. We have both REST and GraphQL APIs which are used by both our own teams and external integration partners who extend and services via our APIs. We run a mixture of both our own private cloud hosting infrastructure and public cloud (AWS) and run Docker for development. Our databases currently all run on MySQL / RDS, and we run our CDN with CDN77.

Airship, a guest engagement and CRM platform, stores around 20 million lines of guest data on behalf of our customers, while Toggle (a hospitality commerce platform) has been used to sell over £21 million worth of gift cards. We’re scaling fast and enjoying the challenge!

What to expect

Your role will kick off with mastering our overall product architectures and APIs, shadowing other developers and learning the ropes. You’ll drop into our sprint kick-offs and stand-ups so you have exposure to our processes and learn how we work and who we are.

Once you’ve found your feet and know your way around our products, you’ll start collaborating with the Product Development team to brainstorm solutions to engineering challenges. 

And once you’re fully up to speed with products, your key challenge will be helping us architect the next generation of our platform infrastructure to allow us to scale and continue to deliver super-fast data analysis.

About you

You’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about database scalability, both horizontally and vertically for transactional and non-transactional requirements, and enjoy seeing real value being delivered to users and customers as a result of your efforts.

You’ll enjoy taking ownership for deploying technical frameworks, processes and best practices, to support your fellow engineers to build high performance and maintainable solutions. You’ll likely have around 1-2 years experience with AWS or GCP.

You’ll also have strong database administration skills, including many years of experience with MySQL.

Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker would be a plus, including any experience with  cloud-database technology such as Elasticsearch, Vitess, SingleStore, Clickhouse or PlanetScale.

You may also have some experience with CI and pipelines.

A graduate degree is not a necessity. We welcome applications from self-taught developers and graduates alike.

Benefits & culture

We have embraced a flexible, remote-friendly working culture.

We work from the iconic Park Hill, right next to Sheffield Train station. We have views over the city, green spaces front and back and plenty of space. 

We will also give you the time, space and budget to learn new technologies and further your own knowledge.

Salary & Benefits

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £40-70k depending on experience.

Job Location: Remote + Park Hill, Sheffield (5 mins walk from the train station)

Holidays: 28 days holiday + an extra day holiday for each year worked with us.

10% time: 10% of your time to learn something new

Health Insurance: Full private health insurance provided.

Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Plus secure bike storage at our office, if you’re local!

Dog Friendly: If you’ve got one, it's welcome at the office!

Electric car lease scheme also available

Read more at https://airship.co.uk/more/careers 

How to apply

Send your CV to devjobs@airship.co.uk along with a covering email about yourself. We’d also love to see any links to your Github or other portfolio websites.