Senior Platforms Engineer
Wickes
devops culture
ci/cd
aws cloud
iac automation
terraform modules
technical leadership
Champion a DevOps culture within Wickes, promoting collaboration, shared responsibility, and continuous improvement.
Implement strategies for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, and rollbacks.
As a Senior Platforms Engineer, you're not just a player; you're the architect of our future! Dive into designing, building, and maintaining the core infrastructure that fuels our internal platforms, empowering software development teams to deliver applications with unparalleled efficiency, security, and reliability. In our Agile and Kanban-driven environment, you'll champion our "platform as a product" philosophy, crafting robust, scalable, and automated solutions. Step up as a senior team member, providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving the adoption of cutting-edge best practices in infrastructure management and automation. This is your chance to innovate, lead, and leave your mark!
Collaborate closely with development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
Design, implement, and manage highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). Lead the development of reusable Terraform modules and Packer images.
aws
ci/cd
docker
kubernetes
infrastructure automation
devops
Deep expertise in core AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, KMS, etc.
Are you a highly skilled and proactive Senior Platforms Engineer ready to seize an exciting new opportunity? Join our dynamic Platform Engineering & Technology team and help us shape the future of platform engineering at Wickes! This is your chance to take the next step in your career and make a real impact.
- Proven experience in a Senior Platforms Engineer role, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering role.
- Infrastructure Automation
- Proven experience building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines from scratch and optimizing existing ones.
- Expertise and hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing complex infrastructure on AWS.
- Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Load Balancing) and security best practices in the cloud.
- Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/ECS).
We’re a team. And teams work best together when they know and respect one another. Listen and learn from one another. So we offer a hybrid working model from our Support Centre based in Watford. Giving you the support you need to do well at work, and the flexibility to make life work for you.
Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we’re proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education & loans, and access to parental, menopause, and fertility support.
- Colleague discount
- Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- 25 Days holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible Hybrid working (2-3 days in Watford)
- Contributory Pension and Life Assurance
- Competitive package including an car allowance and annual bonus
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Net zero by 2050
Carbon emissions commitment
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30% Female Representation
Target for Senior Leadership
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- Partnering with organizations to provide opportunities for underrepresented groups in the workplace.
