Motorway is reinventing how cars are bought and sold online. Motorway started in 2017 with a big vision: build a better car market for everyone. Buying or selling cars has always been hard: it s tricky to know if you re getting a good deal, the process is complicated and can end in frustration. Motorway is changing that. Our mission is to bring the car industry into the 21st century through ground-breaking products and best in class technology. With a few taps, customers can compare instant offers from online car buyers and dealers, select their best offer and sell fast. By removing the traditional steps in between we help everyone get the right deal, quickly. We have helped thousands of people value and sell their car already, and this is just the beginning. There are so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we re focused on building the best way. Unlike your other options, we won t make you choose between price and convenience - you can have both, with no extra effort. We ll guide you through the process to get a great result.
Our mission is to create a market inspired by truth, transparency, and fairness. Our passion and commitment to this drives everything we do, and has helped us build a diverse team with world-class talent across the globe.
Whether it s your first car or your fiftieth, our smart tech and helpful service make everyone a car selling pro. We ll find your best offer from our nationwide network of dealers so you get a great offer from someone you can trust. And because dealers pay a fee to buy your car, when you sell with us, it s always completely free. Sell like a pro. It s the Motorway!
About the role:
Are you someone with a passion for DevOps and are looking to help build and grow a team? Motorway is growing its technology team and business, and as part of our growth we re now looking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer.
We re currently a microservices environment, hosted and deployed in Heroku, using a CI/CD pipeline. As part of our scaling challenge we re in the process of migration into our own AWS solution.
This position will include some level of out of hours on-call after your initial training period and will be supported by the rest of the engineering team - you are not expected to be on-call 24/7/365.
Responsibilities:
The Motorway Engineering department has continued to grow and we re looking for someone to work with us as a Senior DevOps Engineer as we build a world-class Engineering team.
- Manage, maintain & support our Heroku environments (until we move off Heroku).
- Build appropriate tooling for engineering teams.
- Reduce manual work (toil) for the technology team - yourself included! If we can automate it, with a tool or script - let s do it.
- Own and implement appropriate monitoring & alerting.
- Assist the development teams in using these metrics to ensure the reliability of the platform across all services across all deployments.
- Define service level objectives.
- Own and implement new continuous deployment & release improvements to support Motorways ambitious future plans.
- Keep up to date with best practices in application hosting and continuous deployment.
- Proven track record of supporting web platforms in production at scale.
- Experience in cloud platforms, and how to upgrade and fix.
- Experience defining metrics and monitoring on web platforms and setting up alerting for when those metrics are breached.
- Ability to monitor and identify network policy violations and system breaches.
- Experience with continuous delivery and zero-downtime deployments.
- Experience with incident response in an on-call environment.
- Comfortable with command-line tools and environments.
- Proficient with at least one server-side programming language.
- Enjoys complex problem-solving and delivery results.
Bonus points:
- Familiarity with Heroku or Heroku-like PaaS.
- Familiarity with AWS.
- Experience with container deployment platforms like Kubernetes.
- Experience with Docker&Containerisation.
- Prior evidence of developing command-line tools.
- Experience with Serverless technologies e.g. AWS Lambda.
- A competitive salary
- Significant stock options - we succeed and fail together as a team - we want you to be included in our success
- £500 annual learning budget with access to General Assembly courses, an Audible subscription and hundreds of books and online lessons
- BUPA health insurance
- Pension scheme
- Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Flexible working (approximately 2-3 days in the office a week) with the option to work fully remote for a month per year
- Top spec M1 MacBook Pro and accessories
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme
- The chance to join a rapidly growing, revenue-generating startup and build products that will change an industry
- The chance to work with the latest and greatest technologies, free from legacy systems and red tape
- If you re into cars, opportunities to work with vehicle data and learn about the automotive industry. We also have some fun, car-related activities (as well as non-car fun too!)
- 15 minute chat with Recruitment team
- 1 hour interview (remotely) with Engineering Squad
- 1 hour interview with Director of Engineering