AWS Platform Engineer

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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 We'll also 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… Must Be SC Clear-able!!