Lead Platform Engineer
May 29
🔄 Hybrid – Manchester
Description
• Lead the design and automation of the deployment of secure and scalable AWS infrastructure • Own technical decisions to develop and manage the platform engineering roadmap • Build and maintain robust and secure CI/CD pipelines • Plan and implement solutions for backup and recovery, high availability, key management, and other strategic initiatives • Solve Platform problems with Software. We have a principle of solving our problems in Platform by writing scalable, robust and secure software. We write this in TypeScript • Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting • Lead a team of engineers, regularly seeking feedback and growing your skills as technical professionals • Effectively communicate goals, expectations, and feedback to team members • Work with our delivery teams to ensure our services adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization and Sustainability)
Requirements
• Multiple years experience working with AWS • Excellent communication, motivational & interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively across functions • Team Leadership Experience • Experience in implementing and automating security best-practices • Strong understanding of common services available in AWS (both infrastructure-based services and software-based services) to deliver end-to-end architectures and designs and recommendations. We are moving towards Serverless on AWS, but continue to maintain some managed infrastructure such as EC2 and EKS • Proficient with DevOps methodologies such as CI/CD, version control (we use GitHub) and full-stack repeatability • Experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform and CDK. • Software development experience in Typescript • Foundational networking knowledge, such as switching, firewalls, routing and DNS • AWS networking knowledge, such as VPCs, Transit Gateways and how this works in a multi-region environment • An awareness of security processes and DevOps security tools
Benefits
• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit! • Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people • Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits
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