Platform Engineer

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Platform Engineers

UK Wide - Croydon, London, Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool, Newcastle, and Telford

My client, a multinational professional services and business consulting corporation are currently working with the UK Government to build and continuously improve digital services using the best of open source software. UK government has a bold IT vision based on user centric design, Agile development, open source software, continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, cloud computing and a DevOps culture

The role

We are looking for Platform Engineers with an appetite to extend their knowledge and apply new skills rapidly on challenging projects. You'll bring a broad range of experience in modern open source stacks, so don't worry if you haven't got strong experience in every skill listed below. If you can demonstrate a good selection of these skills, and a passion for developing exciting new technical skills, then we'd really like to talk to you.

*Experience debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment.

*Experience of commodity cloud providers such as AWS or Azure in a production system.

*Continuous Integration systems such as

*Hudson/Jenkins/Concourse/Drone/Bamboo.

*Configuration Management tooling (Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt)

*Good understanding of the Hashicorp Suite (Packer, Terraform, Vault, Vagrant, Consul)

*Containerisation - Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm

*Testing, setup and configuration of monitoring/alerting tooling (OpsView, Nagios, ELK, Graphite, Grafana, Zabbix, etc…)

*Experience using languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and Java within an existing, production codebase.

*Experience working in multidisciplinary agile teams.

*Networking knowledge including switching, routing, VPN's, Load balancing (Software/hardware), CDN

*Security knowledge including Firewalls (Software/hardware), IPS/IDS, Antivirus, SIEM, IDaM, DDOS

*Strong communication skills; with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely

This is a fantastic opportunity for both junior and experienced engineers to develop their skills and experience working on large transformation projects. They will offer you several weeks of training to help you develop your skills where appropriate. The training will be tailored to your needs, through a variety of online learning paths, and supported by mentoring, advice and guidance from your technical lead. Wherever possible, it will be backed up with industry recognised certification and hands on practical through a mini-project in our modern TechHub facility. Examples of target certifications include AWS (Architect, Developer, SysOps, DevOps), Azure (Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions), RedHat (RHCSA, RHCE, Ansible Automation etc..), Puppet, etc…

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