Platform Engineer Location - Manchester - Hybrid working Must be eligible for SC Clearance: i.e. only hold a British passport and no other My client is a global business and technology solution provider in the UK and they are currently looking for highly talented Platform engineers to come join their growing engineering team. As a key member of the Engineering team, you’ll be working with our customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous DevOps teams to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain applications and services. What the ideal Platform Engineer brings to the table You'll undertake cross-functional engineering projects, working in small teams with other Engineers in different knowledge spheres, building supportable, sustainable and reliable services. You’ll work with great technology – the UK Government has an IT strategy based on user centric design, modern open source technology, continuous integration/delivery and modern software architectures such as microservices and cloud technology to name but a few. You’ll help us achieve our vision – the chance to make a real difference at the heart of the digital transformation within the UK Public Sector You’ll get opportunities to develop and progress – working on large scale, technically challenging projects. You will be constantly learning through modern learning environments. Essential skills : Experience debugging complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment. Good communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both internal and external stakeholders. Sound knowledge of Linux, Docker and Kubernetes. Experience of building infrastructure in AWS using Terraform. Experience in automation tooling such as Ansible. Provide technical leadership in either a project sense and/or to more junior members of your team. Strong understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools. Desirable skills : Core Networking & Loadbalancing. Jenkins / Concourse / Gitlab CI. Git / GitHub / GitLab. Graphite / Grafana / ELK / Prometheus. SQL / NO-SQL DB’s. HashiCorp (Packer / Terraform / Vault / Consul). Benefits for the ideal Platform Engineer: £55,000-£75,0000 Up to 10% bonus
