Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Rapha

Founded in 2004, Rapha exists to inspire a life by bike. We believe that it’s never just a ride and cycling has the power to improve people’s lives. We are determined to change cycling and open it up to more people so that they too can discover the joys of riding a bike. 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer that is seeking their next challenge to take on key responsibilities surrounding the core Infrastructure that allows our business to operate successfully and grow into a technical team lead.

We’re re-platforming our stack, and redefining how our website works to get closer to the customer and ensure the best possible customer experience using exciting new modern frameworks and content delivery mechanisms. This is an exciting opportunity to join the in-house team of engineers to help push forward our growth.

Desired Traits:

+ At least 2 years of experience working as a senior in a technical role
+ The individual must have experience mentoring more junior members of the team

+ A track record and pride of delivering key project work based on business requirements
+ Experience working in an Agile development environment

+ The ability to call on previous experience to make informed decisions for our future

+ Use initiative and proactively own the implementation of solutions

+ Excellent problem solving and debugging 

+ A good communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts

+ Able to commute into Archway, North London (N19)

Core Skills:

• Experience and patience to work with legacy systems - the old world is important too
• Worked extensively with a CI/CD (eg Gitlab, CircleCI, Buildkite, Relay)
• Strong experience with a major cloud provider (eg. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Understanding and experience with Infrastructure as Code (eg Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Maintained a customer facing infrastructure across multiple environments 
• A clear picture of how source control management software works (git)
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability platforms (eg Datadog, Grafana)
• Comfortable in a terminal (eg bash, zsh)
• A desire to write documentation and share knowledge

Nice to Haves:

• Programming experience with a modern language such as NodeJS, Typescript, Python, Golang
• Appreciation of ´Serverless technologies (eg AWS Lambda, Vercel, Cloudflare Workers)
• Experience working with Kubernetes, ideally in production
• A background with an E-Commerce business

Interview Process:

There are three stages to the interview process:

• First: A call to look at your experience and meet members of the wider team
• Second: A technical interview and a chance to showcase your previous expertise
• Third: A third in-person interview to meet key stakeholders that you would be working with on a day-to-day basis and see our office space with a CV Blind aspect

Working at Rapha

We are continuously looking into ways to invest in our employees and build a better working culture and environment. Here are just some of the internal benefits we offer. 

• Flexible working hours 
• Support ad-hoc remote working during the week 
• No meeting Fridays - giving you time back for things like personal development
• Free barista coffee and Friday afternoon social drinks in the office
• Monthly department social events and quarterly office social away days
• We offer a flexible riding benefit to allow you to go out riding on a Wednesday morning with colleagues or learn to cycle to cycling through our Getting Started Scheme. 
• We offer all our employees a 50% apparel discount
• An annual clothing allowance 
• Discounted membership to the Rapha Cycling Club 
• Company Pension Scheme
• Enhanced Parental Leave