Senior Platform Engineer

2 months ago

Salford, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

Job summary

About us

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.

Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.

Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.

Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.

The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.

About the role

We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and migrate existing DBT services from PasS in the process. Are you up to the challenge of building something new? We need Platform Engineers to make sure our Internet services are hosted the most performant, secure and feature rich platform to meet at the developer experience.

Job description

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.

You�ll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You�ll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.

You will be using:

Amazon Web ServicesAzureAWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild�Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)ElasticSearch/OpenSearchPython and Django frameworkPostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)SentryRedis/Elasticache

Person specification

Skills and experience

It is essential that you have:

Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google CloudAbility to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems ( AWS Copilot, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages ( , writing clean and effective code��Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networkingAbility to see user impact in the infrastructure and platform changes, including a drive to improve the Developer Experience at every turnIn depth experience of designing solutions to complex technical problems independently

It is desirable that you have:

Experience in designing and implementing Docker images through containerisationPaaS, Kubernetes, Django, oauth2/saml2 integrations in PythonExperience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components

Benefits

Learning and development tailored to your roleAn environment with flexible working optionsA culture encouraging inclusion and diversityA with an employer contribution of

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