Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Job Description

Opportunity to join a leading digital asset platform which is expanding its global operations. As a Platform Engineer working withing a hybrid environment, you’ll work collaboratively on cutting-edge projects, helping product teams to deliver new services.

Role Responsibilities:

• Build and manage modern, automated, cloud-native, continuously-delivered infrastructure and application pipeline
• Work with other DevOps engineers to develop and codify shared tooling for repeatable build and deploy patterns for use across the organisation
• Migrate legacy infrastructure code and delivery pipelines to modular structure
• Understand existing infrastructure as code; pro-actively contribute to improvements
• Work within product teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable and automated manner
• Participate in weekly team prioritisation, release, and change management meetings
• Set up and help achieve service level objectives and indicators for infrastructure and application components
• Participate in on-call rotation, supporting hybrid AWS/data centre infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with development teams in our fast-paced delivery environment
• Identify new tooling that reduces toil based on organisational and technical gaps

Technical Experience and Qualifications Required:

• Experience of technology best practices for building a modern automated platform, belief in full automation, IaC, and measuring key performance indicators
• Ability to design and document cloud native architectural patterns and take ownership
• Financial services background or similar useful, especially with regard to security, compliance, and audit
• Good understanding of technologies and experience in building a highly scalable and fault tolerant systems in hybrid environments
• Self-starter, capable of working without direction and able to deliver projects from scratch within, at times, unstructured environments
• Experience with migrations (on-prem to cloud, code bases, technology)
• Hands on ability with IaC cloud build and management tools
• Container management and container orchestration expertise
• Understanding and ideas for successful monitoring and alerting
• Strong messaging systems knowledge, preferably Kafka, alternatively Solace/RabbitMQ/AWS Kinesis
• Ability to communicate to different people, have fresh ideas and be pragmatic
• Practical usage of some or all the relevant tools listed below

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