Senior Platform Engineer

At IOP Publishing our Cloud Compliance & Architecture team provide the critical underlying AWS capabilities that our product teams need to operate their services reliably. We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Engineering department. **Job Summary** At IOP Publishing our Cloud Compliance & Architecture team provide the critical underlying AWS capabilities that our product teams need to operate their services reliably. We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Engineering department. **Role Overview** You will be supporting our world class physics publishing platform. The site supports millions of users from all over the world. You will work alongside the UX and web front end team developing new client facing features. You will also be part of our widerDevOps community, sharing best practices and helping us to engineer the best solutions. You will be joining a modern people-centric 100%-cloud tech department, organised into empowered, autonomous, self-organising product teams, & supported through progressive ways-of-working, with a strong emphasis on flexibility, learning, agile & DevOps. **What does the job entail?** - We are primarily working with Packer, Ansible and Terraform - We want to be working on more containers and serverless - We are making progress in deprecating Puppet and Cloudformation Your job will be to help us with all of this. Technologies we use include: - AWS - we are 100% Cloud - Terraform and Cloud Formation - Splunk, Icinga, Grafana - Github, Bamboo, Jenkins - Python - Linux **About you**: **Successful applicants should demonstrate the following**: - Technical degree or equivalent experience - Understanding of fundamentals of Computer Science - Certifications preferred: AWS, Linux essentials - LPI 101 **Essential** - Previous experience working in an Enterprise class IT Operations department that provides technical support, monitoring, and incident response. - Experience in configuring and managing Linux based infrastructure in an Enterprise environment. - Experience of maintaining an Enterprise IT service in a Public Cloud environment (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud). - Experience of use of code repositories uch as Git or similar. - Experience of writing Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) using Terraform. - Exposure to "DevOps" style working practices, developing and automating solutions. related to Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery using tools such as Jenkins. - Experience with scripting including, but not limited to: Bash or Python. **Desirable** - Experience of using Configuration Management tools such as Puppet. - Knowledge and direct experience implementing ITIL based service delivery principles and best practices. - Demonstrated ability to manage projects and tasks within an agile and dynamic operational environment. - Experience managing and deploying containers at an enterprise scale. - Experience designing and deploying serverless architecture. - Experience with AWS best practice and familiarity with the well architected framework. We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply. **What we offer**: In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer you: - an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), - discretionary annual bonus scheme, - 25+ days holiday (not including bank holidays), - standard 35-hour working week, - volunteering days, - a comprehensive benefits package including private medical insurance and life assurance - a range of flexible benefits such as cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, healthcare cash plan, and payroll giving. **Flexible Working**: We will consider applicants from a wide geographical area who are happy to travel to Bristol on occasions. You should be prepared to come to our modern and contemporary offices in central Bristol for one or two days per month on average, or every day ifyou prefer. IOP Publishing has a flexible, hybrid working model in place, in which colleagues work from where they can be most productive. For more information on our approach to hybrid working, click here. To apply, please submit your CV through our careers site. **About us**: IOP Publishing is one of the world’s leading learned society scientific publishers. Its product portfolio encompasses over 100 open access and hybrid journals, books, conference proceedings and a global science news programme, many of which are publishedin partnership with other learned societies. With offices in Europe, Asia and the US, we work in the interests of the global scientific community to deliver impact, recognition and value to the scientific community. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society,IOP Publishing supports the Institute’s work to inspire people to develop their knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of physics.