DevOps Engineer/Platform Engineer - Permanent - Leeds

Job Details:

Experience Required: 10-15 Years

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions, including monitoring, managing, and optimizing AWS cloud resources.
• Provide engineering insights to the Strategy and Architecture team to improve overall engineering practices.
• Document procedures and policies for maintaining and enhancing system infrastructure.
• Implement automation tools and CI/CD pipelines for secure and efficient deployments.
• Collaborate with development teams to support system deployment and operations.

Skills Required:

Minimum:

• Proven experience as a Senior Platform Engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Expertise in Scripting and pipeline automation (eg, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

Essential:

• Experience working closely with development and infrastructure teams to deliver solutions.
• Strong focus on automation to improve development processes and delivery efficiency.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts.
• Hands-on experience with CloudFormation Scripting, troubleshooting, and debugging.
• Working knowledge of Chef, Scripting, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Python Scripting and debugging.
• Expertise in Jenkins pipelines (multibranch), deployments, and Groovy Scripting.
• Strong Linux command-line knowledge and web services troubleshooting.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG, etc.