Platform Engineer

Join a cutting edge Brokerage House in the heart of The City where building, testing, and releasing of software can happen rapidly, frequently and reliably.

The Platform Engineering function strives to automate infrastructure management and provide the company’s technology teams with self-service tools and workflows with the aim to streamline software delivery in the cloud or on-premises and accelerate the pace of innovation.

You will be a DevOps advocate working closely with development and operations teams improving the collaboration whilst removing any impediments through automation, improved tooling, or processes. You will play a key role in a multi-disciplined team building and operating a new security conscious cloud environment.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate a platform used by development and operations teams to provision their infrastructure and run their applications in the cloud and on-premise. Perform weekend work as necessary to carry out maintenance, participate in on-call duties and respond to support escalations to ensure the operational health of the platform. Support any teams using the platform as required.
• Deliver a continuous integration and deployment platform that integrates seamlessly with the development tools already in use and ensure its effectiveness to delivery software rapidly.
• Improve the developer experience, facilitate developers in building cloud infrastructure and deploying their applications free of impediments.
• Develop policies, standards, and guidelines for IAC and CI/CD that teams can follow.
• Propose and implement workflow and toolchain improvements to automate repetitive tasks.
• Ensure security and governance are considered a priority by applying security practices as part of the SDLC and developing and enforcing policies.
• Collaborate with teams on architectural design and cloud best practices.
• DevOps advocate to educate and promote DevOps practices across technology.
• Stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.

Competencies:

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Proven experience in working closely with development and operations teams throughout the SDLC, implemented CI/CD effectively and deployed into Cloud environments with IAC.
• Considerable experience in deploying and running applications securely in AWS or Azure, familiarity with cloud native tooling and cloud security best practices.
• Built and operated containerized workloads and used serverless technology.
• Proficiency in scripting with programming languages Python or PowerShell.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable:

• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible.
• Monitoring in the cloud using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Broad technical knowledge with a background in Linux Engineering or Development/Automation.
• Worked in a fast-moving Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban.