Lead Platform Engineer

Description

• The engineer will lead the support and maintenance of any infrastructure or platform components to ensure they are operating within supported version and configuration envelopes in order to provide the safest and most secure environment possible. (Patching and security compliance)
• Continuously assess and optimise the performance, security, and cost-effectiveness of the platform infrastructure. Lead with decommissioning plans where systems / platforms are no longer required. Provision the most cost effective cloud platforms only when required and scaling as appropriate (commercial awareness)
• Responsible for co-authoring and maintaining a catalogue of tools, standards, patterns and documents that support our use of our public cloud platforms and overseeing adherence by other platform engineers. Provide architectural assistance to maintain the highest standards of delivery across the team. (Documentation and standards)
• Mentor, coach and lead training for other members of the team such as platform and support engineers to help build their skills and confidence. Provide technical guidance and ensure that quality, standards and best practices are adhered to. (Mentoring and knowledge sharing)
• Serve as an escalation point to resolve the more complex technical issues and queries for Cloud platforms and automation tooling, and assist with architectural challenges. (Support and escalation)
• Designing, Deploying and supporting infrastructure using IAC
• Responsible for the design, development and adoption of automated, scalable and secure cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines for the strategic delivery of technology solutions. Coauthor proven design patterns for solving common business problems. (Delivery of solutions)
• Proactively develop skills as required to support the fast-changing technology landscape and stay up to date with these technologies to help determine if they may be fit for purpose for consumption within the business (training, development & innovation)
• Using the latest tooling design and implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, backup and DR solutions to be used in conjunction with deployed platforms from development all the way through to production to ensure an agreed level of service can be maintained. (Non functional requirements)

Requirements

• Cloud Technology awareness - ideally AWS & GCP
• Knowledge of networking principles
• Knowledge of containers and serveless and microservices
• Knowledge of security practices
• 5+ years software development, operations infrastructure support or platform engineering experience
• Good knowledge of both infrastructure and developer practices.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD and/or GitOps toolsets, building automated pipelines and platforms in cloud as well as infrastructure deploy, build exposure.
• A good knowledge of pipelines and Continuous Integration
• Agile, Scrum, iterative software development processes
• Any industry specific qualifications or certificates
• Extensive skills using multiple automation tools including Ansible, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Gitlab
• Good leadership skills
• Good Knowledge of designing, and deploying platform and infrastructure environments
• GCSE’s + related A level / BTEC standard or L3 Apprenticeship

Benefits

• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Buy-as-you-earn scheme
• Competitive bonus
• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance