Senior Platform Engineer

## About the Role As our new Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. If you are a highly self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you! ## Responsibilities - Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations - Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation - Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability - Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved - Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries - Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise - Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry - Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments - Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop - Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. ## Key Tools and Concepts - Gitlab - Docker - AWS - Terraform - Istio Service Mesh - Kubernetes - Kafka - ELK ## Security Responsibilities - Work with our Security team to: - Remediate high-risk vulnerabilities - Ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinised as appropriate for their use case ## Additional Scope - Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager ## Requirements - University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline - 5+ years' experience within the following areas: Cloud (AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking - Enterprise-level Kubernetes experience - Solid Linux administration skills - Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management - Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines - Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic ## Nice to Have - Familiarity with database concepts - Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS) - Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting