Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Role: Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Location: Hybrid - mainly WFH with visits to Head Office (UK) 4 times per year.

Salary: 40 - 51K + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including 28% Employer contribution Pension)

Key Skills: AWS, IaC, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, CI/CD tooling, Terraform, Github, Containerisation (Docker), Ansible, (plus a language such as Python, Java, Node JS etc.)

Why Apply: Are you a Senior Platform Engineer seeking a role where technical innovation is genuinely embraced, team culture is enjoyable, personal development is achievable, and the work-life balance is perfectly balanced? It's all here if you are a Platform / Cloud Automation/ DevOps specialist with great leadership and technical skills.

Our Client: Our Client is a Government Agency, on this basis you must be eligible for Security Clearance, have full Right to Work in the UK without sponsorship and resided full time in the UK for the last 3+ years.

Role Summary:

As a Senior Engineer you will be a key team member in the Platform Team delivering Infrastructure and systems to the highest standards whilst supporting the DevOps culture and principles. Support the build and maintain Platform Infrastructure to enable rapid and innovative deployment. Lead on various workstreams and act as SME to other Infrastructure Engineers in the associated teams. Role includes:

• Ensure services are integrated, delivered, and operated as required.
• Support the designs and develop infrastructure as code, source code repositories and CI/CD pipelines to execute change on Cloud environments.
• Support opportunities for integration between technologies to meet organisational milestones.
• Supprot in non-functional requirements, ensuring availability, security, capacity, and performance for the platform and/or service.
• Support deployment strategies are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• 1+ years experiece delivering in a Platform Engineering role using most of the skills mentioned. Either in a Senior Engineering role now or looking fort he step up into a Senior role.
• Strong level of skill is required - AWS Cloud technology, CI/CD tooling (such as Concourse, Jenkins etc), GitHub (source control and versioning), Terraform and Containerisation (Docker).
• Strong level of skill - Ansible, Unix/Linux and Python.
• Working knowledge of the following is desired - Packer, Microservice and Serverless Architecture, AWS Glue highly desirable.
• Awareness of the following: Programming Languages (Java and NodeJS).

Technical skills assessment:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Terraform
• AWS Cloud technology
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tooling
• Containerisation (Docker)