Lead Platform Engineer

2 days ago


West Midlands, United Kingdom DataCareers Full time

Role: Lead Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Location: Hybrid - mainly WFH with visits to Head Office (UK) 4 times per year.

Salary: £45 - 56K + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including 28% Employer contribution Pension)

Key Skills: AWS, IaC, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, CI/CD tooling, Terraform, Github, Containerisation (Docker), Ansible, (plus a language such as Python, Java, Node JS etc.)

Why Apply: Are you seeking a step into a Lead Platform Engineering role where technical innovation is genuinely embraced, team culture is enjoyable, personal development is achievable, and the work-life balance is perfectly balanced? It's all here if you are a Platform / Cloud Automation/ DevOps specialist with great leadership and technical skills.

Our Client: Our Client is a Government Agency, on this basis you must be eligible for Security Clearance, have full Right to Work in the UK without sponsorship and resided full time in the UK for the last 3+ years.

Role Summary:

Lead by example in the Platform Team delivering Infrastructure and systems to the highest standards whilst implementing the DevOps culture and principles. Build and maintain Platform Infrastructure to enable rapid and innovative deployment. Lead on various workstreams and act as SME to other Infrastructure Engineers in the associated teams. Role includes:

  • Ensure services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
  • Work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations.
  • Design and develop infrastructure as code, source code repositories and CI/CD pipelines to execute change on Cloud environments.
  • Coordinate opportunities for integration between technologies to meet organisational milestones.
  • Lead and support in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
  • Ensure that deployment strategies are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

  • 2+ years' experience delivering in a Platform Engineering role using all the essential skills mentioned. Either in a Lead role currently, or in a Senior role and looking for next step up.
  • Expert level of skill is required - AWS Cloud technology, CI/CD tooling (such as Concourse, Jenkins etc), GitHub (source control and versioning), Terraform and Containerisation (Docker).
  • Strong level of skill - Ansible, Unix/Linux and Python.
  • Working knowledge of the following is desired - Packer, Microservice and Serverless Architecture, AWS Glue highly desirable.
  • Awareness of the following: Programming Languages (Java and NodeJS).

Technical skills assessment:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Terraform
  • AWS Cloud technology
  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tooling
  • Containerisation (Docker)


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