Location: Birmingham B2 5DP

Department: Technology

Level: Mid to Senior, Non-Manager (Implement)

Reports to: Platform Lead

The Role

The role is a key to improving how ASOS deliver software in a secure, efficient & cost-effective manner will require you to be an integral part of the development teams that you are working with. You should always be looking to improve your area, never settling for the status quo. 

Through the Platform Lead and Principal Software Engineer you will be empowered to drive good DevOps practices with the teams that you support. 

Payments Technology Platform 

Would you like be involved in designing and developing the systems that handle payment processing at ASOS? 

The Payments platform team are responsible for complex integrations with a wide variety of payments providers.  In our team you’ll be working in an incredible depth of detail where you’ll fully understand the ins and outs of how the full payments lifecycle works. 

We process 1000’s of transactions per minute accurately and securely.  As part of our platform you’ll receive regular security training and opportunities to work on performance problems at serious scale. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Ensure teams can easily self-serve the following: 

• Azure services 

• CI/CD pipelines 

• Coaching and mentoring engineering teams on subjects such as DevOps or use of Azure services 

• Working hands on with teams when required to support software delivery 

• Prototyping of new technologies and tools to improve how ASOS delivers software 

• Analyse CI/CD tooling and Azure resources and propose ways to further improve e.g. security or costs 

• Ensuring CI/CD governance and best practice is adhered to 

• Contribute to the engineering and DevOps communities at ASOS to drive forward better ways of working and efficient use of existing services 

• Operating shared infrastructure that supports ASOS’s systems 

What we’re using 

• Microsoft Azure to host our service infrastructure across multiple regions 

• Azure DevOps to manage our Git repositories, work items and CI/CD pipelines 

• SRE practices to improve how we operate services 

• Scrum/Kanban as our frameworks to deliver our products 

• Infrastructure as code tools to ensure our infrastructure is defined in a declarative manner 

What we’d like to see? 

• Knowledge of Azure services, networking and security 

• Windows & Linux based skill set 

• Containerization 

• Strong experience of CI/CD tools e.g. Azure Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity 

• Configuration systems e.g. DSC, Ansible 

• Scripting skills e.g. PowerShell 

• Source control systems e.g. Git 

What is in it for you?

ASOS, we can offer you large scale, high performance, and complex problems to solve to keep you busy. If that is not enough, you can also get involved in initiatives across the organisation to improve and contribute to the evolution and culture we are striving for here at ASOS.
 

We will give you a competitive salary, bonus scheme, and pension matching. As well as access to sample sales and a staff discount. Our flexible benefits focus on your health, wealth & inner self for you, your friends and family.

We are all equal!

We are committed to creating an inclusive workforce.  We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you are from. Where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. Where individuality is a source of confidence because difference makes the world a better place.