Senior/ Lead Platform Engineer

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Senior/ Lead Platform Engineer

Location: Croydon

Duration: 4 months

Suitable candidates need to be SC Cleared or eligible for SC Clearance

Client

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client are at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role

As a leader you will be directing engineering teams to design, build, integrate and deploy the infrastructure and distributed platforms used to host and deliver modern microservice application architectures. You will be experienced in applying modern computing paradigms aiming to improve the path to production, feedback loops and creating cultures of continuous learning and improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

* Contributes to the technical strategy, standards, and solutions and leads in its implementation.

* Coordinates service level indicators with product and business managers, other organisational departments and internal users to define and deliver at or above service level objectives.

* Act as Technical Product Owner for key platform engineering deliverables within infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and metrics and monitoring.

* Create and lead the delivery of technical product/service roadmaps.

* Design, implement and manage strategic organisational and team structures and processes to enable engineering teams to work and deliver value early using agile and lean methodologies and principles.

* Remains on the forefront of emerging DevOps technologies and practices.

* Identifies DevOps innovations and manages the process of innovative change implementation effectively across the project, processes, and technologies.

* Proactively support the Engagement Manager in the development and recruitment of engineering teams across multiple delivery streams.

* Coaches, trains, and develops colleagues to ensure proficiency in delivery of services that we provide on a daily basis

* Contribute to activities for improving synergy, sharing, communication and best practices within engineering disciplines at all levels within the client organisation.

* Develops positive stakeholder relationships at all levels to deliver updates, resolve issues, manage project lifecycles and evangelise DevOps ways of working.

* Measures, tracks, reports, and attains/exceeds project goals. Organises, documents, and reports to senior stakeholders.

Suitable candidates should submit their CV in the first instance