Job Description
We operate a hybrid working policy. This role can be based out of our Leicester or London office.
Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home.
At Dunelm, that’s what we do.
We’re the UK’s number one choice for homewares because we make home life lovelier for our customers. And the caring and supportive culture we’ve created makes this a place you’ll feel right at home too.
Platform Engineering
Our Platform team consists of:
- 9 Platform Engineers
- A Tech Lead
- A Principal Platform Engineer
- A Platform Engineer in Test
- An Agile Delivery Lead
We are part of a wider Platform and Operations team and look after various platforms across Technology.
We are multi-cloud and run production workloads on AWS and GCP. We also look after core parts of the technology stack including Fastly, Auth0, Launchdarkly and Gitlab.
Our main goals are ensuring best practice across Tech, doing everything in code, automating as much as possible and building self-service capabilities wherever we can.
The Platform team is a core business enabler ensuring scalable and resilient systems are deployed across Tech.
Join our Tech Team and you’ll not only be part of stimulating projects that are making an impact across our business, but you’ll be also somewhere you can build a long-term career that always promises to challenge and excite.
Find your happy place.
What you’ll be doing
- Keeping the Dunelm e-commerce platform stable, performant and highly reliable
- Writing and maintaining Terraform to deploy core infrastructure
- Maintaining Fastly CDN infrastructure
- Writing and maintaining shared pipeline libraries for use with Gitlab CI/CD
- Supporting development teams with system design, deployment and operation
- Providing input and guidance to engineering teams deploying systems throughout Dunelm
- Pair programming and assisting other members of the team where possible
- Involved in incident response and potentially an on-call rota when appropriate.
Technical skills:
- Good experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS or GCP
- Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform, but also AWS CDK or CloudFormation
- Scripting, e.g. Python
- Serverless experience, e.g. API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB
- CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab CI/CD, but any experience using pipelines to do consistent and repeatable deployments
- CDN configuration
- Docker/Containerisation
Personal Skills:
- Keen to get involved
- Happy to represent the Platform team when talking to Engineering teams
- Collaborates with other team members – happy to pair program and work on issues together where appropriate
We value curiosity, openness, and a willingness to learn from each other.
D&I statement
Don’t meet every requirement? That’s okay.
If you’re excited about what this company is doing and think you could make a difference — at SheCanCode we still want to hear from you. Register your interest here, and our partners may reach out to explore opportunities, training, or mentorship.
Because potential is more important than perfection!
To apply for this job please visit www.dunelmcareers.com.
