Senior Cloud Engineer

At Tide we help SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market with over 1.8 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.

Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data-driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save both time (and money) so they can get back to doing what they love.

• Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs
• Over 1.8 million members: 800,000 UK and 1,000,000 in India and growing rapidly
• Over $300 million raised in funding
• Over 2,500 Tideans globally - we’re diversity champions!
• We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram and New Delhi, and in Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg.

As part of the Cloud Engineering team, you will be helping to design and build the core infrastructure platform that supports Tide’s global businesses. You will help us complete and evolve our new Kubernetes based deployment platform and roll it out to our new markets

You will work closely with our engineering teams to make sure our platform meets their needs and with our Information Security team to ensure we meet and exceed our regulatory obligations.

We are committed to a 100% Infrastructure-as-Code approach to infrastructure builds using Terraform and currently deploy exclusively to AWS. We also follow the Git Ops model of application deployment and use tools such as ArgoCD, Helm and Crossplane to facilitate this approach. You will work closely with our Developer Experience team to make this model for deploying and managing services usable for our engineers.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer you’ll be:

• Working as part of a larger Cloud Engineering team, comprising core-infra (your team), Developer Experience, and Platform Operations.
• Working with stakeholders to understand the characteristics they require from our platform.
• Writing Terraform and Helm charts to define our infrastructure and configure the middleware/shared services that support the platform.
• Working collaboratively alongside other senior Cloud engineers to define and implement best practices.
• Directly supporting engineers to understand what tools and access they need to effectively use the platform (and then working with Developer Experience to make sure those tools get built).
• Helping to identify, research and implement new technologies that will improve the platform.
• Promoting understanding of the capabilities of the platform throughout Tide’s engineering department.
• Mentoring and teaching (and being open to learning from your peers)
• Taking part in our on-call rotation

• Having an extensive career on the ‘Dev Ops’ track. We’re looking for 5+ years of experience and most of that should be in a Dev Ops/Cloud Engineering type role.
• Having spent the majority of your career working in Cloud hosted environments.
• You consider yourself an AWS expert and have recent hands-on AWS experience.
• Very strong Kubernetes, Terraform and Python skills.
• Knowledge of, or willingness to learn Golang.
• Having a ‘platform’ mentality where you understand that we’re building on behalf of our engineers who will rely on our services to build and innovate.
• Enjoy an environment where everyone’s ideas are heard and considered.
• Having an understanding of the Git Ops pattern and experience in related technologies (ideally ArgoCD)
• Good understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem and ideally some experience with services like Traefik, Linkerd, KEDA and HCP Vault.
• Happy to work in a highly regulated and security-conscious industry.

Tide’s Cloud environment is 100% containerised using AWS EKS. All platform infrastructure is managed via IaC using Terraform and Terragrunt.

Deployments are done via Argo-CD…