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The FT is looking for a Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor) to lead our Edge Delivery & Observability work. The role involves steering the Edge Delivery & Observability team and the API Gateway team, which are part of the Infrastructure & Operations Group. The teams look after cloud edge capabilities like CDNs, DNS etc, along with the monitoring and observability infrastructure at the FT.
Job Responsibility:
Provide technical direction and support to teams across the group
Lead one or two feature teams to deliver quality tooling and products that reduce developer toil
Work closely with the people manager within the teams
Engage with other disciplines (e.g.delivery, product management) and teams across FT to make sure we are all working together effectively
Model and help set and reinforce our inclusive, respectful, multidisciplinary and open culture
Help continuously improve our technology, process and culture, take ownership of problems and see solutions through to completion
Manage and maintain strong relationships with vendors
Gain a deep understanding of the FT as a business and use that knowledge to communicate clearly with your peers, reports, and senior management
Actively collaborate across teams both within and outside of I&O
Contribute to company-wide processes, frameworks, and guidelines
Requirements:
Experience technically leading teams and projects
Effective communicator, able to break down tasks as well as giving/receiving constructive feedback
Customer focused, with a strong focus on building and running reliable, stable and secure systems
Enthusiastic about operability & monitoring of systems and Cloud infrastructure
Experience with AWS, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloudflare, Route53, Python and Go (or equivalent tools) is beneficial
What we offer:
A competitive bonus incentive scheme
Extensive learning and development opportunities including 10% time, tech talks, internal conferences and opportunities to attend external conferences and training
25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 2 years’ service
Generous parental leave
Very competitive pension plan, with the company doubling your contribution