Job Description
Position: Platform Engineer
Location: Manchester, UK
Type: Permanent, Hybrid working (6 days per month on-site)
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000
Our client strives for the transformation of business and technology globally. They have a proven history of unlocking the value of technology across a multitude of business needs. Their sector leading capabilities in Data, Cloud and AI provide some of the best end-to-end services on the market.
We are looking for a skilled Platform Engineer to join the team. You will participate in cross-functional engineering projects, allowing the development of services that are supportable, sustainable, and reliable.
This opportunity will allow you to work within strategies offering user-centric design, modern open-source tech, and modern software architectures including cloud technology. The opportunity for growth and development within this role is significant, with chances to work on challenging large-scale projects.
Essential Skills as a Platform Engineer Include:
1. Successful history with debugging complex, multi-server services in a HA production environment.
2. A confident individual who can communicate effectively both internally and externally, discussing technical concepts clearly.
3. Competency with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.
4. Working with Terraform to build infrastructure in AWS.
5. Previous experience using Ansible to provide automation to the CI/CD pipelines.
6. The ability to help mentor and train junior members of the technical team.
7. Strong knowledge of CI structures and their importance in the automation process alongside other orchestration tools.
Desirable Skills for Platform Engineer:
1. Core Networking and Load Balancing
2. Jenkins, Concourse, GitLab CI
3. Git, GitHub, GitLab
4. Graphite, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus
5. SQL, No-SQL DBs
6. HashiCorp (Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul)
Benefits
1. Base + Bonus
2. Private Medical
3. Extensive benefits package
If you feel that this role as a Platform Engineer is a good fit for you, please contact Ciaran Cleland via the following options:
LinkedIn: Ciaran Cleland
Reference: AMC/CCL/PE
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