Infrastructure Platform Engineer

4 days ago

Great Malvern, Worcestershire, United Kingdom Methods Full time
About the Role

Methods is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer (On-Prem/Cloud) Consultant to join our team on a permanent basis. This role will be based on-site.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop, manage, and support the infrastructure that underpins the platforms, applications, and data which support the business.
  • Automate where possible to facilitate the rapid delivery of approved capabilities to their respective environments in a secure manner.
  • Have good experience in developing Infrastructure as Code to automate the creation of infrastructure from development all the way to production.
  • Be passionate about improving ways of working and best practices by understanding the customer and the market trends.
  • Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey this to the target audience.
  • Test and examine code written by others and provide an approval as part of the governance and review process.
  • Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats when developing by keeping in mind that the systems must be secure by design.
  • Familiar with the NCSC secure design principles.
  • Familiar with managing the security of platforms whether they're on cloud or on-premises, including administration of secrets, tokens, and certificates.
  • Work with the team (business, architecture, engineers, security, data) to ensure that development and delivery follows established processes and works as intended.
  • Plan out projects and be involved in project management decisions.
  • Responsible for the design, security, and maintenance of on-prem/cloud infrastructure.
  • Make and guide effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached with the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
  • Communicate effectively across organisational, technical, and political boundaries to understand the context and how to make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.
  • Understand how to expose data from systems (for example through APIs), link data from multiple systems, and deliver streaming services.
  • Ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.
  • Integrate security features in the software development life cycle.
  • Identify and probable security risks, with their mitigating strategies.
  • Implement security controls.
  • Monitor the infrastructure and the threat to security.
  • Ensure regulatory compliances for standards of security.
  • Early detection of security vulnerabilities
  • Faster deployment of secure software
  • By following better compliance with security standards and regulations
  • Greater visibility into security risks and threats
  • Have experience or familiarity with working in an agile delivery methodology
Ideal Candidate
  • Experience working with many teams especially security would be beneficial.
  • Solid infrastructure design experience for on-prem environments to implement or migrate applications and databases.
  • Have experience with hybrid designs between on-premise and cloud
  • Solid experience in a range of technologies and be able to make assessments as to what is best to be used for the projects and the organisation. As well as suggest and develop innovative approaches within constrained projects and environments.
  • Strong experience in software development change/release management processes and technical governance to fully understand the typical lifecycle and maintenance of live systems.
  • Ability to work with containerization platforms such as Kubernetes, PKS, Docker; provisioning software including Ansible, Terraform, YAML; and application/infrastructure/data performance analysis and monitoring.
  • Experience of functional and non-functional testing.
  • Experience with automated deployment of applications, databases and infrastructure.
  • Understanding of the government digital service (GDS) manual and standards across Discovery/Alpha/Beta/Live phases.
  • Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS technologies, and the implications of their use compared with bespoke development.
  • Being able to provide training, support, and mentoring to the wider business.
  • Knowledge of how to ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.
Desirable Skills & Experience
  • Worked as part of a system support team managing live systems and triaging & resolving incidents to resolution, including management of known defects and issues.
  • Worked as part of a multi-disciplinary project team.
  • Experience with Terraform and YAML to deploy on-prem/cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with automation tools to build and deploy containerized applications.
  • Experience implementing effective instrumentation to monitor applications.
  • Experience implementing SAST and DAST tooling in deployment pipelines like Trivvy and SonarQube.
  • Experience with on-prem DevOps tooling.
Benefits

Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

By joining us you can expect

  • Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
  • Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
  • Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
  • A supportive and collaborative environment

Development – access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training

Wellness – 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme

Flexible Working – including home working and part time

Social – office parties, breakfast Tuesdays, monthly pizza Thursdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and commitment to charitable causes

Time Off – 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year

Volunteering – 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation

Pension – Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution

Discretionary Company Bonus – based on company and individual performance

Life Assurance – of 4 times base salary

Private Medical Insurance – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Worldwide Travel Insurance – which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

Travel – season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme

For a full list of benefits please visit our website

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