Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Tech Platform Services

Job Description

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.
TECHNOLOGYWe're on a mission to build the technology that powers the global platform for luxury fashion. We operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose-built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide, addressing complex challenges and enjoying it. We're empowered to break traditions and revolutionise, with the freedom and autonomy to make a difference for our customers all over the world.
PORTOOur Porto office is located in Portugal's vibrant second city, known for its history and its creative yet cosy environment. From Account Management to Technology and Product, whatever your skills are, you'll find your fit here. You can have an informal meeting in the treehouse or play the piano in your lunch break!
THE ROLEWe are looking for professionals to help us continue to drive innovation, making an impact on the reliability, performance, and scalability of Farfetch industry-leading technology. You must have a DevOps mindset and be passionate about automation, scalability and infrastructure reliability.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, develop, implement and manage cloud native infrastructure and tooling
• Develop an ecosystem that can be efficiently and autonomously used by engineering teams, abstracting the infrastructure layer
• Contribute to building self-service tooling for our internal platforms
• Operate and maintain infrastructure components such as Linux and Windows based systems, configuration management and orchestration using automated processes
• Provide operational support for the platform, ensuring it is scalable, reliable and elastic to meet the company’s ever changing needs
• Identify improvement opportunities regarding processes, technology and operational efficiency
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and industry trends, and continuously improve the platform to meet the changing needs of the company
• Collaborate as part of a cross-functional team, following Agile methodologies

WHO YOU ARE

• Graduated or higher in Computer Science or another technical discipline, or related practical experience
• Proficient with Agile methodology and processes
• Seasoned in the software development lifecycle
• Seasoned with CI/CD pipelines and used to work with Git and Jenkins
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python
• Experienced with configuration management solutions (SaltStack is a plus) and scripting (PowerShell and Bash)
• Interested in designing, analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems using creative approaches
• Familiarised with the development of containerised environments under container orchestration technologies
• Experienced in managing high availability and performance production environments - Windows and Linux Systems, Microsoft Web Servers, HAProxy
• Familiarised with networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP
• Adaptable to new technologies and changing business needs
• Excellent communicator and keen on complex problem solving
• Good written and verbal English communication skills
• Driven by objectives and accountable by definition
• Creative and fun to work with

REWARDS & BENEFITS

• Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
• Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
• Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
• Flexible benefits program
• FARFETCH Equity plan

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

• FARFETCH is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. We continue to build our consciously inclusive culture as part of our Positively FARFETCH strategy throughout our business, partnerships and communities.

Join us to do what was never done before.The Cloud Engineering teams introduce processes, tools and methodologies to operate environments on public Cloud across multiple regions. We also develop and support tooling for Farfetch core infrastructure services.