Senior Platform Engineer
April 5
🔄 Hybrid – London
Ansible
AWS
Azure
Chef
Cloud
Distributed Systems
Docker
ETL
GCP
Go
Kubernetes
Node.js
Open Source
Postgres
Puppet
Python
Ruby
Terraform
Description
• Be part of our growing technology team to help create the cloud platforms to support Our Future Health as we scale • Work with the engineering and operations teams to define platform requirements • Use an iterative approach to building the platform, starting simple and increasing complexity as we go • Strong experience working in a Linux focused environment. • Support defining development processes as part of a new, growing team • Own solutions from conception to deployment and beyond, taking part in on-call rotas where necessary • Integrate and deploy third-party tools required by other teams • Devise innovative ideas for solving hard technical problems involving distributed systems, scale and security and translate these ideas into designs and implementation • Implement best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and efficiency • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota.
Requirements
• Proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services. Azure experience strongly preferred; experience with an additional cloud preferred (AWS or GCP) • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet • Strong experience coding and automating tasks in a high-level language, preferably Python • Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes • Confident with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker • Experience deploying open source technologies such as Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Postgres and related CI/CD pipelines • Good understanding of cloud security best practices and security compliance • Experience designing, supporting and troubleshooting production systems at scale • Good understanding of technology stacks from networks up to applications • Experience working with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, excellent debugging, troubleshooting skills • Experience implementing continuous integration/deployment tools and practices • Experience of working in an agile methodology; used to code reviews and pairing • Ability to adapt, change and grow quickly as we scale the organisation • Excellent communicator in person, in writing, when presenting, when creating diagrams, specifications and documentation • In addition, experience in a health domain would be a bonus (could be clinical, wearables, consumer apps, genomics, pharma / life sciences, NHS, etc).
Benefits
• Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12% • 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.) • Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities. • A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London – we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
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