Aforza aims to transform the lives of every consumer on the planet by helping the world’s best Consumer Goods companies become more agile, efficient, productive, and sustainable. We do this by introducing never-before-seen capabilities, including 'Active' Customer Segmentation, Real-Time Promotion Execution and AI-driven Predictive Ordering.
At Aforza, we feel lucky to rub shoulders with some of the finest talent available in our industry. If you are looking for the opportunity to learn from others and challenge yourself, there is no better place to be. We are a young, well-funded and fast-moving company. We recognise the exceptional talent we are lucky to have in our team and reward them accordingly.
Aforza is looking for a Director of Cloud Infrastructure to join our R&D team, located in Cardiff, where you will be working with a dedicated team of highly talented engineers building out Aforza’s industry-leading cloud solutions.
Reporting directly to our VP of Engineering, in this role, you will be responsible and accountable for the security, reliability, and scalability of our GCP infrastructure.
This is a highly strategic role where you will be directly responsible for continued success of the entire Aforza product suite. As such, the ideal candidate must be hands-on, flexible, and used to working in startup/scale up environments, where every employee has a direct impact on the company’s success.
All of Aforza’s cloud applications, microservice and websites are hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) running on Google Kubernetes Engine. We use TypeScript across the board in both frontend and backend.
Here’s a high-level overview of the different areas of our stack:
- Frontend - TypeScript, React, Redux, Styled Components
- Backend - TypeScript, Nest.js, Node.js, MikroORM
- Databases - PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Firestore
We make use of the following GCP products:
- Google Kubernetes Engine (with Istio service mesh)
- Cloud SQL
- Cloud Pub/Sub
- Cloud Memorystore for Redis
- BigQuery
- Datastream
- Firestore
- Cloud Storage
Cloud Secret Manager
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- Maintain, monitor, and secure our GCP infrastructure.
- Manage the deployment and upgrades of core technologies.
- Implement new platform centric features such as SSO.
- Help architect new products with your platform expertise.
- Maintain our systems and processes to ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type 2 standards.
What We Are Looking For
We’re looking for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure expert who has already been directly responsible for production infrastructure in a previous role. We are a highly dynamic team and require someone who is happy to wear many hats as needed. You should be equally happy engineering new features, managing a SOC2 audit, and clicking around the GCP console.
- Previous experience managing the production platforms and infrastructure of another SaaS company
- Ideally experience of the GCP stack, but if you are an expert in Azure or AWS and looking to switch let’s talk
- Strong knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes and kubectl
- Experience with Istio service mesh is a bonus
- Expertise with IaC tools such as Terraform
- Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML etc
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
- Knowledge of security and IAM best practices
You might not have all of the above, but don’t let that stop you. We’re excited to hear from anyone who is keen and has a real passion for infrastructure management.
Compensation / Benefits
Working at Aforza is awesome! We offer a flexible working environment and our engineers are able to work where they’re most comfortable - whether that’s at home, in our brand new office or a mix of both.
We tend to work from home most of the time, but we like to get to the office a few times a fortnight to get some face-to-face time with each other.
All of our R&D team get fantastic benefits, including:
- Work on cutting edge technologies with world leading customers
- Competitive salaries
- Stock options
- 25 days PTO & bank holiday
- Pension
- Private health cover & income protection
- Flexible hours and hybrid remote / office working
- Fantastic, brand new office space in the heart of Cardiff city centre
We have a straightforward interview process where you will talk to various members of the team to make sure you’re a good fit for us, and we’re a good fit for you.
- A 30 min intro call with an Engineering Manager
- A 1-2 hour interview with an Engineering Manager and a senior engineer. This will either be in person in our Cardiff office or remote over Google Meet. We will ask you questions on your experience and history and dive into your technical skills.
- Two 30 min final stage interviews with our Executive Leadership, including our CEO and Chief Product Officer.
