Senior Platform Engineer

1 month ago


Salford, Salford, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join our team at the Department for Business and Trade. As a key member of our Digital, Data and Technology directorate, you will play a crucial role in building and operating our cutting-edge developer platform in AWS.

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling our global product platform. This will involve working with development teams to provide them with the tools they need to succeed, including application performance monitoring, exception, log, and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD pipelines.

You will also be responsible for evangelizing product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiating them. Additionally, you will help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota.

Key Skills and Experience

We are looking for someone with experience and fluency in Python, cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud, and the ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well-tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems. You should also have experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking, and the ability to see user impact in infrastructure changes.

Desirable Skills and Experience

It would be beneficial if you have experience in designing and implementing Docker images through containerization, PaaS, Kubernetes, Django, oauth2/saml2 integrations in Python, and experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary, learning and development opportunities tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options, a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, and a pension scheme with an employer contribution of 26%.


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