Senior platform engineer

2 months ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Entity:

Customers & Products
Job Family Group:

IT&S Group
Job Description:

Want to be part of something electrifying? BP Pulse is the UK’s fastest growing EV charging network and we need YOU to help us on our global adventure to get to an Electric Future and become NetZero. We’re looking to meet the growing demand for safe, sustainable, and affordable energy. We aim to deliver the fastest, most convenient network of 100,000 EV charging points worldwide by 2030. To do this, we need to rapidly grow our fantastic team with the best people out there. YOU can help us get there, we’re searching for skilled technologists who are passionate and curious individuals to join our team to help electrify the world

As a core member of the bp Pulse Digital Engineering team, you will play a key role in driving our ambition to nurture an outstanding infrastructure engineering team, environment and culture, at global scale.

You will work closely with and be supported by HO Digital Engineering and Engineering Leads to lead, motivate, and develop the capabilities of your team to support our aggressive goals and expansion into new regions.

The scale we operate at presents some unique challenges and requires us to push for exceptionally high-quality work by motivating and empowering engineers to make an impact. You’ll foster an environment where this is valued and recognised.

You would work closely with your peers who are technical leaders in Digital, Hardware, Architecture, Delivery, QA and Security to ensure the delivery of secure and scalable infrastructure using good practice, through transparent leadership, mentorship and guidance for your team.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks 

Manage, coach, support, guide and motivate a team of engineers to ensure they have the right skills to build and maintain high quality and reliable infrastructure.

Helping to shape and evolve our engineering culture by contributing to our Engineering Standards, ensuring that they are understood and adopted.

Promote technology, innovation, values, and ways of working within the team.

Participate in new starter on-boarding activities.

Provide engineers with the support, training, and opportunities to facilitate their growth through continuous learning and improvement initiatives.

Measure and monitor actionable performance metrics.

Work closely with Staff Platform Engineer to plan and coordinate resource allocation.

Provide feedback on and continuously improve our scaled agile processes.

Knowledge & Experience:

Strong experience in leading a highly collaborative team in a scaled agile environment.

Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering methodologies.

Extensive background in hands-on senior infrastructure engineering in a variety of environments and technologies; AWS, Kubernetes and IaC experience is a must.

Ability to understand, provide input on and challenge engineering decisions.

Great knowledge and advocate for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

Excellent people management, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Natural ability to manage, coach, support, guide and motivate senior engineers.

Experience developing and supporting engineers in their personal growth and career progression.

A high degree of empathy, and a drive to create an inclusive team environment.

Excellent collaborative skills including written and verbal communication.

Life-long learner.

Desirable:

Istio and other service mesh experience.

Coding in more than one language.

Experience in global scalability models.

Layer cake and PaaS exposure.

Focus on DevEx and Security.

Other

Bp operates a 60% office 40% home flexible working policy - a hybrid model offering the best of both worlds

Why Join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Thinking about applying? Learn more about our amazing discretionary to help you get the most out of work and life.

Apply now

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation
Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytics, API and platform design, Business Analysis, Cloud Platforms, Coaching, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Facilitation, Information Security, iOS and Android development, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Relational Data Modelling, Risk Management, Scripting, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development, Source control and code management {+ 4 more}
Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please .

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks

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