Senior Automation Engineer found on JUST EAT

Position:Senior Automation Engineer

Department: Engineering

Reports to:Technology Manager

Location:Bristol

The opportunity

Joining the Continuous Delivery Engineering team at Just Eat is an opportunity to help shape the future of DevOps at Just Eat. While Developers own their own code all the way through to production. It is our responsibility to ensure they have the best tools and visibility of their packages during the deployment pipeline and once in production. We integrate, operate, automate and build tools to assist with safe deployment of code to production. It is our job to ensure product engineers can ship code to production in a timely fashion as safely as possible. 

As an Automation Engineer in the CDE team, you would have a wide-reaching role assisting and advising a wide range of Just Eat product teams on deployment tooling and strategies. As well as responsibilities for operating and driving the adoption of this tooling. Internally in the team, you will be supported by a distributed team of passionate automation engineers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Definition - contributes to the definition of product features, getting involved in workshops with other engineering teams and Product Managers

• Continuous improvement -  ensures continuous improvements by proposing and implementing new processes, designs and engineering practices that make the team more effective

• Tracking Progress - tracks the progress being made towards the wider goals of the team, and transparently communicates this with the team and Technology Manager

• Operating - takes responsibility for deploying and supporting their changes all the way through to prove that they work well - and continue to work well - in production

• Communicate - transparently communicates on their progress and discusses ideas with their team and Technology Manager. Shares new development practices, patterns, standards with the team

• Gets involved in the definition of product features, and in workshops with their team.

Your Profile & Experience

• Has platform operations engineering experience performing at a good standard

• A solid background in operating platforms; creating and maintaining runbooks; creating and following processes

• Continuous Integration and deployment tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Travis CI, Concourse CI or GoCD 

• Infrastructure & Configuration Management tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet or Chef 

• Experience working with cloud infrastructure like AWS (or similar) 

• Deployment of Windows Services and Web Sites (IIS)

• Deployment of Linux Services on CentOS / Redhat / Ubuntu

• Consistently and in a timely manner produces technically sound solutions to a problem

• Follows the standards and practices laid out by the team

• Deploys and operates in production

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions. May lead functional projects or work streams within a project. Works independently, identifies innovation solutions, receiving minimal guidance

Required skills and experience

Why work at Just Eat? 

Hello, we're Just Eat – a leading, global hybrid marketplace for online food delivery. We provide over 28 million customers with an easy and secure way to choose, order and pay for their favourite food from 112,000+ Restaurant Partners in 12 markets around the world.

We've built our business on having the widest choice available on our platform – with over 100 different cuisines from local independents to globally famous restaurants, available to order via our app and website. 

We provide the platform and tools to help independent restaurants move online and reach a significantly broader customer base – to generate increased orders and grow their businesses. We also provide the insights, advice, and support our growing community needs to satisfy customers and help raise standards across a vibrant takeaway sector.

We’re built to deliver behind the scenes too. To make Just Eat the great company it is takes a great team of people. Which is why all our Just Eaters can rely on a diverse and inclusive workplace where they feel they can belong – allowing everyone to bring their most colourful selves to work every day. We're passionate about nurturing our people and offer a full programme of training and support to all of our employees – helping them develop their careers in a way that suits them. 

Since 2001 Just Eat has grown from an ambitious crew of 15 founded in Denmark, to a global team of more than 3,700 people today – all focused on our brand vision: Serving the world's greatest menu. Brilliantly.

It’s what we do. A vision guided by our five GREAT brand values: Get it done, Razor sharp, Evolution at pace, Ambitious appetite, and Together we win… all of which give you a strong hint as to how we do it too. 

They’re also the backbone of our open culture. A culture where all our employees, from all different backgrounds, speaking all sorts of languages, reflect our inclusivity and our brand’s global audience and outlook. 

It’s why we’re always looking out for smart, driven, and dedicated people to bring their experience, expertise and enthusiasm to our global team. People who want to share ideas, try new things, and bring their own bit of brilliance to the Just Eat table. 

Bon appetit! 

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, where you are from, religious beliefs or takeaway preferences you could find your place at Just Eat.  We’re a diverse and inclusive workplace that promotes a sense of belonging, allowing all of our people to bring their most colourful and complex selves to work every day.

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Just Eat is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace.  All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.

Just Eat is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need an accommodation or accessibility assistance to complete the online application, please contact us at recruitment@just-eat.co.uk for assistance.