Systems Engineer

Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: England
Company Name: Tyk

Company Overview

Tyk is a leading API Management Platform. The internet started by connecting mainframes, by the end of the 20th century 600m desktop and laptop computers exchanged email and web-traffic. Today around 15 billion “things” are connected to the internet, growing at a rate of a billion per year. Tyk are committed to enabling interconnectivity between systems and devices Tyk is an open source API Gateway that is fast and scalable, an API management platform featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. Available to install on premises, as a cloud service, or hybrid.
Who are Tyk, and what do we do?

The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)

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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