Platform Engineer

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Platform Engineer - London - up to £95kpa DOE

My client, an extended arm of a Global Technology Consultancy is currently looking to expand their digital team with several Platform Engineers, to advise their customers on the best solutions and practices to help transform and modify their internal platforms.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you like to stay abreast of technology and consult companies of why the technology would be beneficial and deliver the solution/s.

To be successful in the role:

You are a technical lead, DevOps lead, technical architect or technical manager. You will have broad experience across the entire software development life-cycle, from inception through to production. You will have successfully delivered complex technical programmes of work at scale.

Role

The work is varied, ranging from engineering leadership within a product team to developing sustainable infrastructure via container orchestration to changing engineering practices that cross organisational boundaries. You will need initiative, resilience and patience, but you will have the opportunity to directly impact how large enterprises practice software engineering.

Non-technical Skills

*Good communication skills across diverse groups (stakeholders, engineers, business analysts, etc.)

*Initiative (identify value work and execute delivery)

*Leadership (influencing stakeholders, up-skilling engineers)

*Commercial awareness (pragmatic approach to problem-solving)

*Systems thinker (understand how large organisations operate and common pitfalls, LEAN manufacturing)

*Agile (experience with Scrum, Kanban)

*Collaboration (work in an open and sharing culture)

Technical Skills

*Good engineering practices:

oContinuous integration/delivery (Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI)

oTesting: TDD, BDD, integration, E2E

oCode-reviews

oPairing

oSource code control: git, git flow

oDocumentation

*Languages and frameworks:

oJava/NodeJS/Groovy/Scala/Ruby/Python/Bash

oSpring/Express/Cucumber/React

*Working knowledge of latest technologies:

oContainers (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher)

oCloud infrastructure/services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

oInfrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)

*Operational experience:

oUnderstanding of high-availability, disaster-recovery, monitoring and logging at scale

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