Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer | Remote | London | Manchester | Leeds

Contract | 6 – 12 months

Job Description

We are looking for a technical lead, DevOps lead, technical architect or technical manager. You will have broad experience across the entire software development life-cycle, from inception through to production. You will have successfully delivered complex technical programmes of work at scale.

Role

The work is varied, ranging from engineering leadership within a product team to developing sustainable infrastructure via container orchestration to changing engineering practices that cross organisational boundaries. You will need initiative, resilience and patience, but you will have the opportunity to directly impact how large enterprises practice software engineering.

Why us?

We value transparency, curiosity, inclusivity and getting stuff done. Our people are at the core of this process. Trust in our people underpins everything we do. We also help our clients on their transformation journey and through that process we are helping to transform the company we work for as well. We are helping to create new business model: a new technology consulting business.

Non-technical Skills

• Good communication skills across diverse groups (stakeholders, engineers, business analysts, etc.)
• Initiative (identify value work and execute delivery)
• Leadership (influencing stakeholders, up-skilling engineers)
• Commercial awareness (pragmatic approach to problem-solving)
• Systems thinker (understand how large organisations operate and common pitfalls, LEAN manufacturing)
• Agile (experience with Scrum, Kanban)
• Collaboration (work in an open and sharing culture)

Technical Skills

• Good engineering practices:
• Continuous integration/delivery (Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI)
• Testing: TDD, BDD, integration, E2E
• Source code control: git, git flow
• Java/NodeJS/Groovy/Scala/Ruby/Python/Bash
• Spring/Express/Cucumber/React
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher)
• Cloud infrastructure/services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)

Operational experience:

• Understanding of high-availability, disaster-recovery, monitoring and logging at scale

Platform Engineer | Remote | London | Manchester | Leeds

Contract | 6 – 12 months

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