Lead Platform Engineer - Middlesbrough

GMA Consulting Ltd.; Middlesbrough; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000

Job description

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Hybrid working model - 2-3 days per week in the office.

The Company
The company is a leader in its field and is an Insurance business with an excellent reputation both in the UK and abroad.

The Role
As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of the mission to evolve and build a new Digital Platform that is performant at scale, secure and compliant with both internal and industry regulations, and meets availability requirements. In addition, you’ll be working on how change is managed through the technology systems to ensure there is optimal release frequency, lead time for change, change failure rates, and mean time to resolve.

What You Will Be Doing

• Documenting existing processes and automating those using software you write yourself, and/or using third party software tools.
• Building, operating, maintaining and working with Engineering and Architecture, optimising all of the Cloud Infrastructure including the PaaS infrastructure in Azure, and the SaaS platform components such as Salesforce.
• Working with product engineering teams on recommendations to development changes.
• Liaising with internal suppliers of the services and product teams to improve speed and reliability in end to end solutions and associated CICD processes.
• Working with our information security teams to ensure security policies are implemented in the most efficient and flexible manner.
• Designing, building, operating, monitoring and alerting technology for large, complex multi-site b2c and b2b applications.
• Building comprehensive documentation and software such that all actions are repeatable.
• Improving and automating operational processes e.g. deployments, upgrades, internal workflows.
• Tracing issues through multiple systems, working with developers where needed to find and diagnose root causes.
• Working with internal customers of your SRE products e.g. monitoring, alerting, software to ensure lifecycle management is in place.
• Working within an agile program and teams, adhering to Scrum or Kanban principles.

What You'll Bring

• Engineering expertise in complicated Salesforce environments, experience with Copado for CI/CD is beneficial.
• Strong and proven experience with a well-known cloud PaaS, preferably Azure.
• Familiarity with Linux and the shell.
• Strong programming skills e.g. C#, PowerShell, scripting languages, JavaScript, Python.
• Experience with common infrastructure platforms, apps and services e.g. Azure, Nginx, HAProxy, Consul/etcd, Splunk.
• Experience with Containerisation systems an advantage e.g. Kubernetes, Docker.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and multi-stage pipelines to manage large scale software estates from an operational perspective e.g. build, release, monitoring, rollbacks, high availability etc.
• Strong networking protocol knowledge e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/3, AMQP, streaming protocols etc, cloud network design e.g. VPNs, subnets, regions/zones and integration related technologies e.g. Auth0, APIM, etc.
• Strong database knowledge and experience; relational, graph, document, various consistency models.
• Experience with IaC toolchains e.g. Terraform.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and successful business.

YOU MUST HAVE A VALID UK WORK VISA TO APPLY

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting