Platform/DevOps Engineer

The role of a Platform Engineer is to design, build, run and evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environment

The successful applicant will join a DevSecOps team tasked with delivering:

Responsibilities:

• Build, install, configure, test, monitor, support and document cloud-based, third-party, and/or custom-built systems, technologies and features.
• Build, configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Build, configure and maintain infrastructure environments (cloud and on-premises).
• Liaise with vendors and service providers for external support and system enhancements.
• Participate in after-hours on-call support.
• Operate in agile framework using agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).

Experience:

• Demonstrated experience as a Platform or DevOps engineer
• Ability to perform root cause analysis and solving challenging problems.
• A propensity to solve problems with coding/scripting and automation.
• Applying and promoting security best practices from a systems delivery perspective.
• Applying and promoting CI/CD principles and practices.
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code

Technical Skills :

• *Nix operating systems (e.g.: Linux).
• Cloud hosting platforms (e.g.: AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Git-based source/version control systems (e.g.: GitHub, Bitbucket).
• Continuous integration/delivery tooling (e.g.: TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Scripting languages (e.g.: Python, TypeScript, Bash, Shell, or similar).
• Programming languages (e.g.: C#, Java or similar).
• Containerisation technologies (e.g:. Docker).
• Testing tooling management (e.g.: Perfecto, BlazeMeter, Playwright) is a plus.
• Configuration management tooling (e.g.: Ansible) and Artefact management tooling (e.g.: Artifactory) is desirable.