Lead Platform Architect

1 week ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Octopus Energy Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Platform Engineer to join our team at Octopus Energy. As a technical leader, you will be responsible for overseeing the design and development of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and reliable.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the design and automation of secure and scalable AWS infrastructure
  • Own technical decisions to develop and manage the platform engineering roadmap
  • Build and maintain robust and secure CI/CD pipelines
  • Plan and implement solutions for backup and recovery, high availability, key management, and other strategic initiatives
  • Solve platform problems with software, writing scalable, robust, and secure code in TypeScript
  • Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics, and reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting
  • Lead a team of engineers, regularly seeking feedback and growing your skills as a technical professional
  • Effectively communicate goals, expectations, and feedback to team members
  • Work with our delivery teams to ensure our services adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability)
Requirements
  • Multiple years of experience working with AWS
  • Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across functions
  • Team leadership experience
  • Experience in implementing and automating security best-practices
  • Strong understanding of common services available in AWS (both infrastructure-based services and software-based services) to deliver end-to-end architectures and designs and recommendations
  • Proficient with DevOps methodologies such as CI/CD, version control (we use GitHub), and full-stack repeatability
  • Experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, and CDK
  • Software development experience in TypeScript
Desirable Skills
  • Foundational networking knowledge, such as switching, firewalls, routing, and DNS
  • AWS networking knowledge, such as VPCs, Transit Gateways, and how this works in a multi-region environment
  • An awareness of security processes and DevOps security tools
About Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy is a unique culture where people learn, decide, and build quicker. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about We empower our people to unleash their potential and make a real impact in the energy industry.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.

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