Company Overview
If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London – UK, London – Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.
Our Mission
Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.
Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility
We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.
If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.
The role:We’re looking for a Systems Engineer, to collaborate with agile squads to revolutionize release engineering, hone test frameworks alongside QA, and champion automation across k8s, AWS, all while leveraging your expertise in Github actions, (C)Go with Linux, or packaging to drive innovation in SaaS and on-prem security.
Responsibilities
- Working closely with QA to develop solid test frameworks
- Release engineering and associated infrastructure
- Platform engineering tooling
- Developing, championing and embedding best in class frameworks and practices into our squads via a consultative approach
- Automation for k8s, AWS and DO assets
Specialised skills
These are skills that would be necessary to effectively satisfy the role at Tyk. Shortlisted candidates need to have at least 2 of the following,
- Github actions
- (C)Go development with Linux toolchain
- Packaging (rpm, deb)
General skills
- Configuration management (Ansible, cloud-init, etc.)
- IaaS providers (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- IaC (terraform, helm, etc.)
- Container orchestration and development (k8s, rancher, etc.)
- Writing in English proficiently
- Cross-team collaboration skills & stakeholder management skills
- Communication skills to engage at various skill levels
- Supporting agile squads with processes and automation
Here’s Why You Should Join Us
- Everyone has unlimited paid holiday.
- We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
- Employee share scheme
- Generous maternity and paternity leave
- Company retreats
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