Platform Engineering Director

6 hours ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Fruition IT Full time
Key Responsibilities

As a Platform Engineering Director at Fruition IT, you will lead a team of skilled engineers to design, build, test, and maintain cloud application infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that underpin all internal and external Digital services. Your focus will be on ensuring security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development and deployment of services.

You will champion a Platform Engineering culture by fostering close collaboration and working practices between product, engineering, and operational business services teams, supported by the appropriate use of automation tools.

Your role will involve managing and developing the Platform Engineering capability by providing technical leadership for the in-house team and external suppliers. You will contribute to business case development, articulating benefits and return on investment, and ensure solutions are delivered to time, cost, and quality requirements.

You will design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.

Key responsibilities include leading teams in support, design, and implementation of infrastructure technologies and solutions such as:

  1. Compute
  2. Storage
  3. Networking
  4. Physical infrastructure
  5. Database
  6. Software
  7. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and open source packages and solutions
  8. Virtual and cloud including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
Required Skills/Experience

Demonstrable experience managing highly skilled Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers, or Software Engineers, including mentoring and driving best practice.

Strong technical background from either a software engineering or infrastructure engineering perspective, with extensive experience in Platform Engineering tooling and techniques.

Experience in driving efficiencies through automation and process design and implementation, particularly in the automation of application deployment methodologies.

Experience in building and optimizing deployment pipelines and strategies on popular CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.

Experience designing, securing, scaling, and administering cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.

Experience managing complex, multi-server services in a high availability production environment.

Solid understanding of containerization, ideally having implemented Docker containers into production environments.

Experience with Agile tools and processes (e.g., Azure DevOps).

Knowledge and understanding of the latest trends in DevOps/Platform Engineering methodologies, processes, and tools, as well as emerging solutions, and the ability to apply them when appropriate.

Fruition IT is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.


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