Platform Engineer

We have an exciting job opportunity for role Platform Engineer based in Leeds, UK (Weekly 3 days onsite) for Permanent

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Leeds (3 days in a week)

Job description:

Key responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions. Including monitoring, managing and optimising cloud-based (AWS) resources.
• Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering across the whole organisation.
• Document all procedures and policies for maintaining and improving system infrastructure.
• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) for efficient and secure deployment and operations. Whilst also working with development teams to facilitate the
• deployment and operation of systems.

Skills Required:

Minimum

• Experience as a Senior Platform Engineer including a solid understanding of software engineering principles and their application.
• Experience of Scripting and pipeline automation (eg Jenkins and GitHub Actions).
• Strong understanding of cloud services (AWS) and containerisation technologies (eg, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

Essential

• Experience of working closely with development and infrastructure teams to quickly understand requirements and implement solutions.
  - Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery.
  - Ability to cooperate closely with both engineers and product teams - including designers, product managers, and analysts.
  - Hands on CloudFormation Scripting, troubleshooting and debugging
• Working knowledge of Chef, Scripting and troubleshooting
• Experience with Python Scripting and troubleshooting
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines (multibranch), deployments, groovy Scripting
  - Experience with Linux commands and knowledge of troubleshooting web services
• Experience with AWS services - EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG